ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00267.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Siblings, who are 50% similar genetically and grow up within the same family, nevertheless differ markedly in personality and psychopathology, and most of these sibling differences cannot be explained by genetic factors. These findings from the field of behavioral genetics imply that within‐family processes that lead to sibling differences, called nonshared environment, are crucial for understanding environmental influences on individual development. Such nonshared environmental influences cannot be identified by the conventional strategy of comparing one child per family on a family‐by‐family basis; what is needed are studies of siblings that focus on why they are so different. The implications of these findings for investigating family process are outlined, and research is reviewed that explores the extent to which siblings in a family have different experiences, and that begins to assess links between such differential experiences and developmental out

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00271.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Though most people desire intimacy in their primary relationships, it is more elusive than not. I argue that people's assumptions about intimacy interfere with their creation of it. Using a social constructionist and feminist perspective, two prevailing discourses of intimacy that shape our ideas about intimacy are identified and critiqued. Both tend to direct attention away from an assessment of particular interactions to a global assessment of the capacity of an individual or a relationship to provide intimacy. An alternative is proposed in which intimacy is conceptualized as built up from single intimate or non‐intimate interactions that can produce a variety of experiences, including connection and domination. My critique of the two discourses of intimacy rests fundamentally on the belief that they obscure crucial distinctions that a discourse of intimacy as meaning‐making would reveal, in particular, that there are politics nestled in the heart of intim

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00285.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article comments upon recent “second‐order” family therapy concerns about the nature of the therapeutic relationship, and explores how ideas held by therapists may rule and restrict therapeutic conversations. Ideas are examined in the light of how adherence to them might open space (free) or close space (tyrannize) with respect to the therapeutic relationship. The authors propose a philosophical viewpoint, a methodology, and practical suggestions for therapists wishing to maintain a stance of relative freedom with respect to ideas in their work with cl

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00307.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This is the third in a series of reports on a small‐sample study of systemic/strategic team consultations. It sheds new light on aspects of the therapeutic alliance in Milan‐informed therapy. Ratings of the end‐of‐session interventions and ratings of the therapist's relationship skills (warmth, active structuring) significantly predicted client improvement at 1‐month and 3‐year followups. These results dispute the Milan team's idea that an intervention's effects are unpredictable. Also, our findings challenge the way some teams have adopted an impersonal, emotionally unresponsive style under the guise of “neutrality.” In view of this and other recent studies, we conclude that systemic/strategic therapists should devote more attention to collaborative and affective qualities of the thera

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00321.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The aim of this investigation was to examine the context of recurrent crying episodes during family therapy sessions. We tested the relative contribution of social versus individual intrapsychic variables within a 10‐session, videotaped, structural family therapy. Segments of therapy before crying episodes when compared with control (non‐crying) segments were found to have higher levels of the following variables: involvement with others in the room, rejection, and concern about supplies. Two family variables were also higher before crying episodes: family discussion about patient, and patient receives hostility. A stepwise discriminant function analysis using these variables indicated that family discussion about the patient was most important in signaling onset of crying. The results are discussed in terms of individual and family theories of symptom formation as illuminated through this case st

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00337.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Is our understanding of how individuals adjust to stressful life events increased when we analyze their adjustment in ways that recognize that these individuals are also married couples? The data used to answer this question came from a unique “natural experiment” occasioned by the forced evacuation of the Israeli settlement of Ophira under the terms of the Camp David Accords. We found that the adjustment of individuals within couples became more similar across the relocation, that is, couples adapted as a “family system.” This occurred because the coping skills of one member of the couple “drove” the adjustment of bo

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00347.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article focuses on a specific aspect of consultation in contemporary family therapy, namely, problems that arise in the context of a consultation that simultaneously serves as a demonstration of a particular model of therapy. The demonstration‐consultation interview is used widely in family therapy, but has received little attention in the literature. We use a case example of the apparent persistent deterioration in the clinical state of a patient following such a family interview with a visiting expert, and examine the possible contribution to the patient's deterioration that the demonstration‐consultation context creates for the various participants. We offer provisional guidelines to minimize the risk of negative effects of the demonstration‐consultation interview, pending empirical research into this pheno

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1991.00363.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY