摘要:

The stages of the process of migration are described, with the implications of each for family conflict and appropriate therapeutic intervention.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00379.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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The patient selection criteria for most modalities of psychotherapy have not yet been clearly articulated. This paper presents a decision‐tree model outlining the factors that incline a clinician to perform a family evaluation, then to decide upon family treatment instead of another form of therapy, and finally to settle upon the particular duration and intensity of family treatment. We have compiled screening criteria, based on research and clinical opinion, to be applied in the utilization review of the decisions made at each of these steps. This method can be used to evaluate the appropriateness of care and to render decision‐making explicit and accountable; it may also have considerable value in training and resea

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00391.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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Conceptual and methodological shortcomings of research on family and inter‐actional psychopathology are owing mainly to the use of vague and ill‐defined concepts of communication. Based on a theory of language use and communication within general social and cognitive psychology (e.g., Heider, Mead, Piaget, Rommetveit) Blakar has outlined a methodology by which interaction is analyzed in terms of how and to what extent the participants (families) manage or fail to cope with the various prerequisites for successful communication under varying situational conditions. A study illustrating this program is presented: The interaction of twelve families, six with (Group S) and six without (Group N) a schizophrenic member, is analyzed in Blakar's communication conflict situation with respect to the members' ability to decenter and take the perspective of each other. Group S proved significantly more egocentric, their egocentric attitudes resulting, as would be expected, in very inefficient communication. Moreover, Group S were not able to adapt their pattern of communication to the changing situational requirements. Finally, the subtle interplay between the capacities and behavior of the individual members and the family system is illustrated: the egocentrism of the members resulted in “closed systems,” and the closed systems hindered adequate feedback, forcing the members to d

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00405.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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Arguments between adherents of different therapeutic models are often based on the assumption that empirical evidence is ultimately the judge of the merits of the respective approaches. The gathering of empirical evidence, however, is programmed by epistemological premises that in turn are not tested by “objective” demonstration but rather by their congruence with prevailing sociocultural values. The epistemological premises behind individual‐ and systems‐oriented models are incompatible, and respectively congruent with currently coexistent and opposite sociocultural values. Adherence to a particular model is thus based on epistemological‐axiological positions rather than neutral objective e

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00427.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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The study was designed to answer two questions: (a) Can a relationship over time between family interaction and individual symptomatology be demonstrated? (b) Can it be shown that changes in interaction have more influence on changes in the symptom than vice versa.Five interaction dimensions were taped in weekly, three‐quarter hour sessions over 20 weeks in five families, each consisting of a mother‐father‐child triad who met certain criteria and had an encopretic child. The interaction dimension scores were abstracted weekly from these sessions by content analyses relying on various scales. The derived ratio scores were then related to the number of days the child soiled himself in the week preceding and following the interaction measurement. The relationship was assessed by Pearson correlation coefficients and step‐wise multiple regression analyses adjusted to account for the possible inflationary effects of taking measures from the same subjects more than once. The results of the analyses answered both questions posed by the study in the affirmative, thus supporting the rationale underlying family

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00443.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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This study evaluated the validity and reliability of a new coding system — The Family Therapist Behavior Scale (FTBS) — that was designed to identify and study clinically relevant verbal behaviors of short‐term, problem‐oriented family therapists. Validity was assessed by testing the scale's ability to discriminate significant, predicted differences between the in‐therapy behaviors of eight beginning family therapists conducting observed interviews and eight advanced family therapists conducting supervisory interviews. All of the sessions, which were initial interviews, were videotaped. Two coders rated three five‐minute samples from each of the 16 tapes with the FTBS. The validity results supported over 50 per cent of the 16 research hypotheses. The reliability analysis, based on the actual study data, indicated that the interrater reliability of the 19 category FTBS differed from chance at less than the .001 level of significance. The implications of these findings are examined and future research directions are

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00451.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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Created in the absence of one‐way mirror facilities, Direct Open Supervision combines elements of live supervision with team participation in training family therapists. The theory and application of this approach to direct supervision are describe

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00463.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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The death of a child invariably affects the family, who in effect become survivors. Adaptations are made in order to secure a new family equilibrium attendant upon such a loss. Surviving siblings not infrequently become the focus of maneuvers unconsciously designed to alleviate guilt and control fate through silence and efforts to maintain silence, through substitution for the lost child, and through endowing the survivor‐child with qualities of the deceased. Three types of clinically identifiable types of survivor‐children are described. Families that emphasize silence and focus on guilt, families in which the child becomes incomparably precious, and families in which substitution and replacement provide the major theme lead respectively to the “haunted,”“bound,” and “resurrected” child.These children share many features, as do their families, but there appears to be a connection between the family defensive maneuver and the specific consequences for a child of the

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00471.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper represents an initial step in applying to complex clinical situations the symbolic logic developed by G. Spencer Brown and elaborated by Francisco Varela. This way of modeling turns out to yield an interesting mixture of rigidity, ambiguity, and paradox, perhaps inevitable at our present level of understanding of systems containing feedback. Applying the Brown‐Varela concepts seems a useful transitional step toward the future use of more sophisticated quantitative models such as those of Powers and Forreste

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.00479.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1979.489_1.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1979

数据来源: WILEY