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In this paper it is suggested that there is a link between the condition of anorexia nervosa and certain rigid and implicit family beliefs. These rigid and implicit beliefs are transmitted from one generation to the next and have a highly constraining effect on all family members. More specifically, these beliefs include role prescriptions that are applied to certain daughters. These daughters are vulnerable to the symptoms of anorexia nervosa.The goal of treatment is to challenge successfully the constraining influence of these beliefs. As such beliefs appear extraordinarily resistant to direct challenge, this is best achieved by rendering the beliefs and their specific consequences explicit to family members. An intervention procedure based on this approach is described and its application to “anorectic families” is demonstrated. The description is supported by transcripts of a family in treatm

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00255.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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In certain Ibsen plays a character (would‐be family therapist) enters during a crisis revolving around family secrets. Taking two such plays as models, this paper examines family processes and clinical issues surrounding secrets and myths. In Ghosts, Ibsen demonstrates the tragic foreclosure visited upon the Alvings' lives by a generation of secrecy. For contrast, in The Wild Duck the would‐be reformer Gregers brings out the truth, to expose and correct consequences of his father's past machinations. The biographical roots of Ibsen's obsession with truth and illusion are explored. Lastly, the notion that Ibsen and early family therapist were reformers is viewed in historical perspect

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00275.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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The science of family systems has begun to develop concepts and methods for objectively assessing important characteristics of families. Thus we now have ways of measuring differences among families with respect to cohesiveness, flexibility, clarity of communication, and shared views of social reality. We know practically nothing, however, about the origins of these differences among families. One possibility is that the skills or personal attributes of one or more individual members influences the characteristics of the family as a whole. This paper explores the hypothesis that the perceptual styles of individual members — the ways they organize their experience of their personal stimulus world — influence the shared perceptions the family develops of the social world in which it lives. We explored relationships between nine measures of perceptual style and problem‐solving measures of the family's shared perception of its social world. The findings showed many similarities among members of the same family on several measures of perceptual style. However, perceptual style had only a few relationships with family performance in the problem‐solvi

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00289.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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The Primary Communication Inventory was factor‐analyzed in order to validate the subscales of this instrument. These subscales were derived by Navran (20) on the basis of face validity and were labeled verbal and nonverbal communication subscales. The analysis yielded two factors. However, they could not be labeled verbal and nonverbal. Instead, the factors were interpreted as: (a) the individual's perceptions of own communication ability, and (b) the spouse's perceptions of the individual's communication ability. The scoring of the Primary Communication Inventory was revised and used as a measure of perceptual discrepancy between husbands and wives. Interestingly, discrepancy within the marital dyad was greater for the nondistressed participants than for the distressed participants. The results illustrate the potentially adaptive nature of positive perceptual distortion within the marital dyad and the potential utility for future research of calculating perceptual discrepancy scores for each spouse using the Primary Communication Inventor

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00309.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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It is argued that researchers and therapists could benefit from a detailed comparison of marital observation coding systems. The five chosen for comparison are Weiss' Marital Interaction Coding System, Gottman's Couples Interaction Scoring System, Filsinger's Dyadic Interaction Scoring Code, Olson and Ryder's Marital and Family Interaction Coding System, and Raush's Coding Scheme for Interpersonal Conflict. The strengths and weaknesses of each are noted, along with recommendations for their use in clinical situations.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00317.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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This comment is submitted with the intent of stimulating some exchange between researchers. Although I chose the Woodwardet al. study as a vehicle for my statement, I might easily have chosen examples outside the family therapy area.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00337.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00338.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper presents some of the underlying patterns of parenting that have emerged from six years of ethnographic field research into the role of the family in children's acquisition and use of reading and writing skills. The research has provided some insights into the many complex and interrelated ways that children's literate activities are mediated and affected by multigenerational family patterns and by their personal experience of everyday life both within and outside the family.Two central themes are discussed: the spirit of change, which breaks the patterns of the past and brings new interpretations into the present, and the spirit of conservation, which maintains the continuation of family patterns from one generation to the next. Also described are the important parental attitudes of social flexibility and resiliency that are frequently evident in these processes of conservation and change of multigenerational patterns. One specific family story provides the background for the theoretical issues that are explored.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00341.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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This paper attempts to clarify Minuchin's concept of family boundaries and to modify the original definition to one based on social systems concepts that are neutral with respect to pathology. The authors distinguish between logical and physical conceptualizations of “boundary” and differentiate the broad metaphor of family boundaries into proximity (i.e., interpersonal boundaries) and hierarchy (i.e., generational boundaries). Assuming that the nature of a relationship is reflected by the extent of overlap or sharing of interpersonal territories, Wood (14) adapted Goffman's (2) concept of territorial preserve to encompass six types of territories family members may share to a greater or lesser extent, reflecting the family's pattern of proximity. The family's hierarchy is reflected by who is “in charge,” parents or children.We explore the process of boundary reorganization in families in transition, offering a nonstatic and health‐oriented view of boundary permeability. Using the anthropological concept of “rite of passage,” we suggest an alternative view of stressful transitional events such as marriage and divorce.We illustrate with examples the reorganization of proximity and hierarchy that occurs during periods

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00347.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

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Separation and divorce can exacerbate or precipitate abdication of parental functions. This is often associated with disengagement and acting‐out by the adolescent offspring. This paper describes a therapy oriented to the management of four specific processes: (a) the restoration of parental nurturing functions, which tend to collapse under the personal and interpersonal tensions of divorce, with the result that the adolescent is without sustenance or seeks it elsewhere; (b) the recovery of parental guiding and controlling functions; (c) the correction of distortions that accompany the separation process and restoration of a relatively more accurate view of family reality; and (d) the repair of parental unity. Excerpts from a case study are used to illustrate the orchestration of this therap

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00359.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1983

数据来源: WILEY