Which of the following is true of expressed emotion and relapse in patients with schizophrenia?
A. Interventions that reduce family expressed emotion tend to reduce the relapse rate in schizophrenic family members.
B. Therapists have no difficulty changing entrenched communication patterns between patients with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers.
C. Delusions and hallucinations will elicit more negative expressed emotion from family members than blunted affect or lack of motivation.
D. Hostility observed in some family members indicate that negative symptoms of the person with schizophrenia are learned behaviors.
Answer: A
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