Ethel lives with her parents. She frequently has relapses into schizophrenia. If her family is characterized by expressed emotion, what behaviors can we expect in her parents that induce relapse?
What will be an ideal response?
Her family may be highly critical of or even hostile to Ethel because of her illness. Emotional overinvolvement-a dramatic or overconcerned attitude toward Ethel and her illness-may also be in play. Expressed emotion is a reliable predictor of relapse even when potentially important patient variables are controlled statistically. When families lower their EE (often with clinical intervention), patients' relapse rates decline.
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