摘要:

Violence is a strikingly lineal concept that is difficult to address from a systemic perspective. Bateson's epistemological disqualification of the concept of power is often understood to imply a corresponding systemic disqualification of the concept of violence. This position is examined in light of recent feminist criticism. It is argued that (a) violence and power belong essentially to the domain of human experience and (b) human experience cannot be invalidated by theory. Accordingly, it is suggested that the (appropriate) invalidation of power and violence in the domain of systemic explanation should probably understood both as a deliberate choice that necessarily follows from adopting a systemic perspective, and as a fundamental limitation of that perspective. In neither case, however, should the systemic view be considered to be a valid disqualification of the human experience of violence and power.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00001.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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This article is a critical examination of the possible relevance of a specific approach to cognitive science for systemic family therapy. I provide a way of comparing the conceptual backgrounds for both these fields and, on that basis, propose some conclusions that underline the difficulty of the task.

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00015.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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Although awareness of the harmful effects of loneliness has increased in recent years, lonely persons continue to be viewed as family outsiders or nonfamily. Beginning with the general‐systems concept of loneliness as having a healthy, adaptive function in families, this article explores the family context of different degrees of loneliness. It assumes that prolonged loneliness (in addition to its meaning for the individual system) is a manifestation of certain kinds of family processes. Five such processes involved in the prolonging of loneliness are suggested: unresolved grief, pathological certainty, synchronicity, family expansion, and parental abdicatio

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00025.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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This is the first in a series of reports on an experimental, small‐sample study of systemic/strategic team consultations. This report describes a “Milan‐informed” method of team consultation for resolving therapy impasses. It then focuses on the initial one‐month outcomes from the larger 3‐year project. Eleven therapists were asked to select two ongoing cases matched for difficulty. While all cases continued in regular therapy, one of each therapist's cases was also selected at random to participate in a systemic/strategic, five‐part team consultation. Analyses of one‐month follow‐up data showed that clients who participated in the team consultation were more likely to achieve their main and overall treatment goals than clients who received only regular therapy (p's<.05, eta2as a measure of effect size ranging from 32% to 41%). The strong findings of this initial study encourage more widespread use of team consultations as a context for treatment, train

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00037.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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Huntington disease (HD) is an adult‐onset, genetic disorder with major psychosocial implications. Although many of the psychiatric symptoms of the disorder have been attributed to the HD gene, systems factors may also account for the disorder's manifestations. Three illustrative issues — patient preselection, the denial of symptom onset, and suicide induction — are discussed from the vantage point of family systems thinking. Recently developed capacity for presymptomatic testing of HD despite the current absence of treatment or cure makes it likely that family therapists increasingly will be involved in clinical work with individuals and families in which HD o

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00059.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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A new psychosocial intervention for families and patients experiencing the chronic phase of a disabling medical illness is described. The intervention, a short‐term, highly structured, psychoeducationally oriented, multiple‐family discussion group (MFDG), was developed within the context of a clinical research program and has been successfully applied to a heterogeneous range of disabling medical illnesses. This report includes a detailed description of the treatment model, the format and content of group meetings, and initial clinical impressions regarding MFDG effic

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00069.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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This study examined conflict‐resolution interactions of couples, and related marital satisfaction to sequential and nonsequential communication patterns. Couples' satisfaction with marriage has been differentiated on the basis of the degree of coercive versus affiliative communication between partners. Results of this study indicate that this pattern differs, however, for individuals within couples on the basis of gender. Females and males were found to demonstrate different styles of response to dissatisfaction in marriage; men assume a coercive stance toward their partners while women take an affiliative position. Drawing on systemic and gender‐difference theoretical perspectives, these patterns are interpreted as attempts by individuals with different world views to resolve conflict. A view is discussed whereby systems and gender differences can be integrated into a unified conceptual formulation upon which to base future development in research and therapeutic interventi

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00089.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

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The search for and measurement of important relationship qualities have always been of interest to family therapists. Within a Rogerian perspective, empathy, regard, and congruence are believed to be among the most important indicators of the quality of human relationships. These variables, or conceptually similar ones, are also important in several current models of family functioning. Barrett‐Lennard (1, 2) developed an instrument, the Barrett‐Lennard Relationship Inventory (BLRI), to measure empathy, regard, and congruence. Although the major use of the BLRI has been in psychotherapy outcome research (13), several studies have shown that it is a sensitive indicator of marital satisfaction and of changes occurring in marital‐improvement programs. The present study is a factor analysis of the BLRI based on data from 345 women who rated levels of empathy, regard, and congruence in their relationship with their husbands. The results robustly confirm the three‐factor structure of the BLRI in what is believed to be the first factor analysis in the context of a family member rating a relationship within the family. The replication of the BLRI's structure in a new relationship context suggests that the dimensions tapped by the BLRI may have some generality and warrant further exploration in a family‐systems context. Several advantages of the BLRI over other currently available instruments are discussed, as are potential uses of the BLRI in systems research beyond the mar

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00107.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0014-7370    

DOI:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1989.00119.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1989

数据来源: WILEY