摘要:

A framework for defining paradigms within the field of marital and family therapy is presented. The term “paradigm” is critically analyzed as applied to mental health services. Paradigm crisis in marital and family therapy is described as resulting primarily from practical‐theoretical, professional, andpolitical concerns rather than scientific anomaly. Subsequently, two paradigms are defined as related to marital and family therapy: the psychomedical and the social systems (systemic) paradigms. Both paradigms are defined according to basic propositions and methodological tenets. The need for, and the design of, critical paradigmatic experiments of the psychomedical paradigm against the systemic paradigm are addressed. Critical paradigmatic experiments are viewed as an offshoot of a postpositivistic empiricism in keeping with a contextual view of know

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00804.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00805.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00806.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The expanding knowledge and skill bases within the interdisciplinary family therapy profession pose a significant challenge for evolving practitioners, at whatever stage along the professional development process they find themselves. This challenge raises a basic question regarding whether there are any constraining forces to the level of eclecticism in practice towards which one can aspire. This paper empirically explores the role played by the personality attributes of the family therapist in facilitating and/or inhibiting one's adherence to a variety of approaches to family practice.

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00807.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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This study compared clinical rating scales and self‐report scales from the McMaster and Circumplex models of family functioning. Forty‐one families were given self‐report measures, while clinicians assessed the families using clinical rating scales. There are three main findings: (a) The McMaster instruments have superior sensitivity (i.e., ability to correctly identify clinical families based on instrument scores); (b) there is greater correspondence between clinical rating scales and family member self‐report inventories on the McMaster instruments; (c) there is lack of support for the curvilinear model of pathology suggested by the Circumplex model, as evidenced by unequal and linear distribution of scores on the Circumplex dim

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00808.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article describes the use of a battery of structured family measurement procedures to conduct systematic, comprehensive assessments of families who enter treatment. The measures are derived from family research and include self‐report questionnaires and structured observation of family interactions. The assessment is multimodal, and examines the entire family unit, the marital subsystem, the individual family members, and the larger social context affecting a family. Two case examples are presented which demonstrate how the structured assessment data are combined with clinical theory and other information about a family to generate initial hypotheses about the functioning of the family system and likely avenues for therapeutic interventio

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00809.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This study assessed the frequency with which the marital and family therapy journal literature focused on problems associated with aging in a family context. Content analysis was used to assess the prevalence of later life family concerns in two leading journals,Family Processand theJournal of Marital and Family Therapy,during a 10‐year period (1976–1985). Results indicate that neither journal covered later life family issues to any appreciable degree. It is concluded that elders in marital and family relationships constitute a new frontier for the extension and elaboration of family ther

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00810.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

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The borderline/schizoid marital constellation is the prominent constellation among borderline patients on a long‐term inpatient unit. Treatment of this marital constellation, in which each spouse has a severe personality disorder, requires application of the concept of the holding environment as an essential treatment construct, with the therapist as manager of the holding environment. This paper explicates the means of management. With the proposed treatment approach and a long‐term treatment orientation, seemingly hopeless cases can impr

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00811.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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This study clearly replicated the previous findings which demonstrated the predictive validity of PREPARE. Like the previous study, this longitudinal study was a 3‐year follow‐up of 179 couples who took PREPARE during their engagement. As in the initial longitudinal study, PREPARE predicted, with about 80% accuracy, couples who got divorced from those that were happily married. Also, the same linear trend in PREPARE scores was found (highest to lowest scores): happily married, unhappily married, cancelled/delayed marriage, and separated/divorced. This study further indicates the importance of the premarital period as the foundation for marriage and the ability of PREPARE to identify high‐risk premarital couples who could benefit from premarital counseling. Premarital counseling could potentially help these high risk couples develop a more satisfying mar

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DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00812.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0194-472X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1989.tb00813.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY