Which of the Following Is True of Expressed Emotion and Relapse

question 103

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of expressed emotion and relapse in patients with schizophrenia?

• A) Therapists have no difficulty changing entrenched communication patterns between patients with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers.
• B) Delusions and hallucinations will elicit more negative expressed emotion from family members than blunted affect or lack of motivation.
• C) Expressed emotion in observed family patterns indicate that negative symptoms are probably learned behaviors.
• D) Interventions that reduce family expressed emotion tend to reduce the relapse rate in schizophrenic family members.

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