Question

What role does the family play in schizophrenia? (10 points) 2. Watch any movie array 10 ebook with a character that has schizophrenia and relate to material found in the chapter.

Answer 1

• Schizophrenia is a devastating illness, often resulting in a loss of social functioning in affected individuals. The sufferer’s family has a profound effect on their illness. Having a relation with schizophrenia also affects the roles and interactions within the family.
• Expressed emotion (EE) comprises critical or emotionally over-involved attitudes and behaviours displayed by one or more parents to their schizophrenic offspring. Research into expressed emotion reveals that family dynamics are an important but controversial predictor of relapse of positive symptoms.
• Close relatives, especially mothers, act as the major carers for patients with schizophrenia. With the movement away from institutionalised care for psychiatric patients, the respite afforded by this care is being replaced by greater contact with families. If a patient is in regular contact with family members, it is reasonable to engage these relatives in the patient’s care.
• Families both need and want education, coping and communication skills, emotional support and to be treated as collaborators in the management of a relative’s illness.
  
• Family members can play an important role in helping to keep their relatives with schizophrenia supported and oriented to reality. Before they can be properly supportive, however, they must first understand schizophrenia.
• They need to accept that schizophrenia is a disorder of the brain just like diabetes is a disorder of the body. It is not anyone's fault and is not a moral or spiritual failure.
• The single most important thing family members can do to support their ill relatives is to help them remain oriented and on task with their therapy. They can help them stay on their medication, and attend scheduled psychotherapy sessions and doctor visits. Family members can also help relatives with personal care, eating a well-balanced diet, and getting regular exercise (even if it's just a walk).
• Family members can help their relatives by continually encouraging them to keep their therapy appointments, and do things to make it more likely that treatment is continued.
• Caring for relatives who are ill is frequently painful and heartbreaking. Family members may benefit from getting therapy for themselves as well as for their relatives. Participating in a self-help group for families of those with schizophrenia is known to reduce the sense of burden, aloneness and stress that families may feel.
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