Which of the Following Is True Concerning Expressed Emotion and Relapse

question 150

Multiple Choice

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

• A) Therapists have difficulty changing entrenched communication patterns between the patient with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers, which makes it difficult to reduce the relapse rate
• B) Blunted affect will elicit more negative expressed emotion than inappropriate affect, which causes a rise in the relapse rate
• C) Expressed emotion in observed family patterns indicates that negative symptoms are probably learned behaviours, which explains why relapse rates are very high in schizophrenia
• D) Interventions that reduce expressed emotion in families tend to reduce relapse rate in schizophrenic family members

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