Communication in Lower Class Families of Schizophrenics

Behrens, Manfred I.; Rosenthal, Alan; Chodoff, Paul

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1968.01740060049006

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“…Although the small size of the hospitalized control sample limits the conclusions that can be drawn from the findings, they are particularly important, since a similar control group was not included in most previous studies of transactional attention disturbances (2, 5, 24). On all comparisons of Amorphous Difficulties, the hospitalized control group falls between the other two groups and does not differ significantly from either.…”

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“…These findings suggest that a less disturbed parent may counteract, and a more disturbed parent augment, the influence of the other disturbed parent. Similar criteria for measuring disturbances in focal attention have also been applied to tapes of conjoint family therapy (13), to transcripts of family Rorschachs (2), and to transcripts of pairs of family members describing common objects to each other (5). However, such disturbances have not been scored by observers watching the ongoing interaction of the schizophrenic offspring with both parents.…”

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Transactional Communication Disturbances in Families of Male Schizophrenics

1975

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Criteria were developed for scoring the interaction of families (mother, father, son) of schizophrenics, psychiatrically hospitalized nonschizophrenic controls, and normal controls, on transactional Attention Difficulties, Closure Difficulties, Problem‐Solving Efficiency, and Dominance. These variables were scored by observers watching the interaction, from tapes, and from transcripts of the sessions. Tape‐scoring was the most efficient and effective in discriminating the three groups. Mothers', couples' (mother and father), and families' total Amorphous Attention Difficulties scores were higher in the schizophrenic than in the normal control group; but families of both hospitalized and normal controls were distinguished from families of schizophrenics only when mothers' Amorphous Difficulties and fathers' Closure Difficulties were considered together. The groups were similar on Problem‐Solving Efficiency. Fathers of schizophrenics were most Dominant, both within their families and compared with fathers in the other two groups.

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Transactional Communication Disturbances in Families of Male Schizophrenics

1975

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“…This scoring system was shown to be composed of six meaningful factors. Still other investigators focus on the lack of clarity that characterizes communication in these families (2,3,15,20). High scores on two particular factors were found only in parents of hospitalized schizophrenics, but four factors were nondiscriminating.…”

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“…One viewpoint is that the families of schizophrenics distort communication in order to maintain a family consensus (19,28). Still other investigators focus on the lack of clarity that characterizes communication in these families (2,3,15,20). Another viewpoint holds that the parents in these families consistently mislabel and misrepresent their own behavior (4, 13).…”

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Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Jones

1977

Family Process

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Parents of schizophrenics show more transactional style deviance in diverse situations than do other parents. In a sample of families of nonschizophrenic outpatient adolescents, a manual for scoring such deviance on stories told for seven TAT cards was developed. This scoring system was shown to be composed of six meaningful factors. When this system was applied to the TAT's of parents of offspring with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, a total deviance score did not discriminate among the parents. High scores on two particular factors were found only in parents of hospitalized schizophrenics, but four factors were nondiscriminating. Parents of young adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders were more likely to show high scores on at least one of these six factors than other parents. Considering the scores of mothers and fathers together yielded the best discrimination of parents of schizophrenia spectrum disorders from other parents.

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“…For example, studies of schizophrenia, a heterogeneous diagnostic grouping whose sine qua non is a deficit in the ability to cope with interpersonal stress, have revealed an association with certain styles of intrafamily communications [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Delinquency [21,22] and other personality constellations of individ-uals [17,21,23] have also been found to have their own intrafamily consist encies in behavior.…”

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Intrafamily Identity and Home Dialysis Success

Pentecost¹,

Zwerenz²,

Manuel³

1976

Nephron

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The entire family participates in the success of the home dialysis patient. Isolation and study of discrete quantifiable aspects of behavior within the family may allow identification of patients with a greater risk of failure, thus making it possible to help such patients succeed. A single such factor, ‘intrafamily identity’, measured in each of 40 diverse families before one family member began a home dialysis program, was found to correlate with success in the program 1 year later. This finding also may contribute to an understanding of systematic patterns of behavior within all families, with special emphasis upon the ability of family members to cope with continuing stress.

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Communication in Lower Class Families of Schizophrenics

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Transactional Communication Disturbances in Families of Male Schizophrenics

Transactional Communication Disturbances in Families of Male Schizophrenics

Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Intrafamily Identity and Home Dialysis Success

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