A typology of divorcing couples: implications for mediation and the divorce process.

abstract：:This paper describes several disagreements among approaches to family therapy and proposes two conceptual shifts providing a more integrative perspective. The first shift focuses on the implications of different ways therapists orient themselves to the developing structures of the therapy system and to the disabled st...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Kantor D,Neal JH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A framework for assessing multiple levels of the family system by using multiple methodologies is proposed in this paper. This approach for measuring family phenomena is referred to as Multisystem-Multimethod (MS-MM) family assessment. Ideas from systems theory, measurement theory, and clinical application are used to...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Cromwell RE,Peterson GW

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fact that adoption records may be opened by court decree to enable adoptees to have access to identifying information about their birth parents makes it incumbent upon those concerned with adoption practices to study the impact of this on adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and professional practice. This p...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Pannor R,Baran A,Sorosky AD

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nurtured Heart Approach to parenting (NHA; Glasser & Easley, 2008) is summarized and evaluated in terms of its alignment with current theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence in family studies and developmental science. Originally conceived and promoted as a behavior management approach for parents of diffi...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Hektner JM,Brennan AL,Brotherson SE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using detailed case examples, we contrast first- and second-order cybernetics approaches to family problems involving somatic symptoms in a family member. A second-order cybernetics approach views the reality of the problem as linguistically shaped by those interacting around it, including the therapist and observing ...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Griffith JL,Griffith ME,Slovik LS

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to make attachment research findings available in a form that family therapists can use. In attachment theory, parents are conceptualized as providing a secure base from which a child can explore. Family therapists, however, need a systemic concept that goes beyond the parent/child dyad. The...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Byng-Hall J

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this meta-analysis, we examine attachment styles-something commonly incorporated into couples therapy-and their association with physical intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration and victimization among men and women. This meta-analysis incorporated 33 studies that looked at the association between four differe...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Spencer CM,Keilholtz BM,Stith SM

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous randomized controlled trial (RCT), short-term efficacy of family constellation seminars (FCSs) in a general population sample was demonstrated. In this article, we examined mid- and long-term stability of these effects. Participants were 104 adults (M = 47 years; SD = 9; 84% female) who were part of the ...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Hunger C,Weinhold J,Bornhäuser A,Link L,Schweitzer J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of leaving an abusive partner has been theorized using the Stages of Change Model. Although useful, this model does not account for changes in relational boundaries unique to the process of leaving. Using family stress and feminist perspectives, this study sought to integrate boundary ambiguity into the St...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Khaw L,Hardesty JL

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Step-families are situated within the sociopolitical context of family change and are examined as a prototype of the "post-modern" family. This essay looks at the cultural construction of step-family life and proposes a model for collaboratively reconstructing stories that liberate step-relationships from the legacy o...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Bernstein AC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper will outline new developments in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C) (Greenberg & Goldman, Emotion-focused couples therapy: The dynamics of emotion, love, and power, Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 2008). People are seen as primarily motivated by their affective goals and the reg...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Goldman RN,Greenberg L

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing number of divorcing families become locked in intractable disputes over child custody and visitation. This article describes an integrative family therapy approach targeted toward such families. Aspects of this treatment include negotiating a clear therapy contract, creating a multipartial alliance with all ...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Lebow J,Rekart KN

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the use of paradoxical interventions to change the resistant behaviors of community home residents who were formerly institutionalized in state hospitals and in state schools for the retarded for an average of 27 years. The paradoxical interventions were used following prior therapeutic failures u...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Bergman JS

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genogram, or family diagram, is an assessment tool widely used by clinicians to study family members and their relationships over several generations. The standard genogram format is limited, however, because it does not show temporal patterns directly. An alternative, the Time-Line Genogram (TLG), which plots tim...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Friedman H,Rohrbaugh M,Krakauer S

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contemporary psychotherapist is exposed to a variety of conceptual models and paradigms. These are usually presented as opposing truths in different doctrinal schools, but actually they are all valid from one point of view or another. And accordingly, they are all tactically useful at some point or another. I thou...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Scheflen AE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an evaluative study of brief family therapy, 279 families were administered a Family Satisfaction Questionnaire in their own homes, six months after treatment terminated. This questionnaire was designed to assess several aspects of the families' satisfaction with services received. The identified patient in all fam...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Woodward CA,Santa-Barbara J,Levin S,Epstein NB

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the design and delivery of two international family therapy-focused mental health and psychosocial support training projects, one in a fragile state and one in a post-conflict state. The training projects took place in Southeast Asia and the Middle East/North Africa. Each was funded, supported, ...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Charlés LL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Committee on the Family of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry has introduced the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF), a scale that describes and quantifies the relational context within which patients live and problems occur. The GARF is intended to serve as a device that alerts clinicians ...

journal_title：Family process

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更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the case history writings of Milton Erickson as literary texts. A deconstructive analysis reveals that the modernist assumption of therapist as magical healer disguises the role clients play in their own change. Hypothetically constructed case transcripts contrasted with excerpts from Erickson (s...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Sparks JA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wet Cocker Spaniel Therapy is a metaphor for the therapist's use of spontaneous techniques arising from the specific therapeutic situation rather than planned techniques from the therapist's training or allegiances. The paper proposes a problem-oriented, rather than technique-oriented, approach to family therapy. Most...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Pittman FS 3rd

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social stress theory proposes that stress resulting from one's social position in society leads to fewer coping resources, and subsequently causes an increase in mental health problems. Guided by this framework, we investigated whether the relationship between perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms was moder...

journal_title：Family process

authors： McNeil SN,Fincham FD,Beach SR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conceptual and methodological shortcomings of research on family and interactional 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, Rometvet) Bl...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Mossige S,Pettersen RB,Blakar RM

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines within-person and cross-person relations between depressive symptoms, harsh parenting, and parental rejection in low-income Filipino mothers and fathers of adolescents using an actor-partner interdependence model (APIM). Mother and father dyads (N = 81, Mage  = 43.48, SD = 8.66) recruited from urba...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Jocson RM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important aspect of Israeli life is its continuous state of conflict with the neighboring Palestinian people and Arab countries. Given that security-related stress is so intensely experienced by all Israeli residents, we examined the effects of daily fluctuations in security-related stress on dyadic closeness among...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Ben-Ari A,Lavee Y

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Couple therapy has been shown to be effective in randomized clinical trials; however, results from naturalistic couple therapy have been less consistent. This study utilized a benchmarking approach to compare the effectiveness of couple therapy in a community-based setting with findings from efficacy treatments, such ...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Quirk K,Owen J,Reese RJ,Babins-Wagner R,Berzins S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the dramatic rise in the divorce rate, this paper proposes that separation and divorce be viewed as normal phases of the family life cycle and be reframed in positive terms, such as a couple "being ready for a new relationship" or children "being the lucky possessors of two families instead of one." It furt...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Morawetz A

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two kinds of escalation between parents and children with acute discipline problems: (a) complementary escalation, in which parental giving-in leads to a progressive increase in the child's demands, and (b) reciprocal escalation, in which hostility begets hostility. Extant programs for helping parents deal w...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Omer H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews some of the recent empirical studies validating the Circumplex Model and describes the newly developed self-report measure, FACES III. Studies testing hypotheses derived from the Circumplex Model regarding the three dimensions of cohesion, change, and communication are reviewed. Case illustrations u...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Olson DH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a large and growing share of American families now forming outside of marriage, triangular infant-mother-father relationship systems in "fragile families" have begun to attract the interest of family scholars and clinicians. A relatively novel conceptualization has concerned the feasibility of intervening to supp...

journal_title：Family process

authors： McHale J,Waller MR,Pearson J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes recent developments in the use of the "absent but implicit" in narrative therapy. Michael White used the term "absent but implicit" to convey the understanding that in the expression of any experience of life, there is a discernment we make between the expressed experience and other experiences th...

journal_title：Family process

authors： Carey M,Walther S,Russell S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00