Families with a child or adolescent with schizophrenia tend to show higher rates of hostile, critical, and overinvolved levels of affectively-charged communication than families without schizophrenic offspring.This pattern is known as:

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This pattern is referred to as "Expressed Emotion" (EE), which is a measure of the family environment that is based on how family members speak about the patient during a private interview with a researcher. High levels of EE within families, characterized by critical, hostile, or emotionally over-involved attitudes, have been linked to a higher risk of relapse in psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia.

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