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This article presents a family developmental systems framework to examine the immediate and long-term ramifications of death and loss in the multigenerational network of relationships. Based largely on our early research and extensive clinical experience, we examine family adaptation processes and variables in risk and resilience. We consider facto...
This paper provides a range of problems and solutions involving the asynchronous interaction between a UUT and a digital test instrument during LRU and SRU test. Agile handling of such asynchronous activity can result in higher test quality, simpler programming, and less debugging. Examples provided herein are compared to the applications workaroun...
Psychological theory needs to be representative of the full range of human experience by being based in the experience of all groups of people. The women honored in this chapter, Jean Lau Chin, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Oliva Espin, Beverly Greene, and Monica McGoldrick, are all feminist therapists, researchers, scholars, clinicians and writers who have...
The family genogram is sometimes used to aid diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive care decisions. This study evaluated the efficacy of genograms for predicting health risk in comparison to predictions made using demographic and chart review data.
Six physicians with expertise in using genograms were asked to evaluate 20 actual patient cases and...
focus on the interaction of women's roles throughout the life cycle both in their families and at work
male and female development
households
between families: young adulthood
the joining of families in marriage: the young couple
families with young children / families with adolescents
launching children and moving on
divorce and rema...
A family physician was worried about a patient, a 53-year-old woman whose blood pressure had become progressively elevated despite appropriate treatment; no cause for secondary hypertension or noticeable changes in her life were identified. Mrs. Garcia, the patient, a pleasant and energetic Latina widow, was living with her daughter and two grandch...
This paper describes the process of "coaching" individuals in their efforts to change themselves in the context of their nuclear and parental family systems. Although this approach is regarded as one of the major modes of intervention in family therapy, the actual methods and techniques for intervention are not widely understood. Moreover, we have...
This paper describes the efforts of the faculty of the Family Institute of New Jersey in recent years to develop a collaborative family training program that takes into account issues of gender, race, culture, class, and sexual orientation. We have come to realize how strongly traditional approaches have been skewed in the direction of the dominant...
While most attention to death and mourning has tended to focus on individual bereavement, a systemic perspective is required to understand how the loss of a family member reverberates throughout the family system with immediate and long-term consequences for family functioning and for all members and their subsequent relationships. This overview ch...
This paper discusses an Irish American woman family therapist's thoughts about culture, class, race, and gender in the context of family therapy. The difference in her power position as a woman and as a white person are described. The power politics of naming are discussed. The hidden dimension of class in a "classless" society is considered as are...
Ethnicity is an important variable for practitioners in understanding family business systems, since ethnicity influences patterns of communication, values, relationships, and preferences in business practices.
Six physicians and 6 family therapists each read 18–20 genograms drawn for 58 patients in an academic family practice. After predicting health risk from each genogram, the Ss rated the extent to which each of 26 categories of genogram information had contributed to their prediction. Seven categories (medical condition of patient, medical condition...
Until now the clinical literature has focused narrowly on the pathological effects of loss on a bereaved individual. This volume is among the first to examine the impact of loss on the entire family system and to consider both normative and dysfunctional processes in relation to a family's life cycle passage and cultural context. Useful clinical gu...
This comprehensive book, ideal as a basic text in family therapy and women's studies, addresses the question of how women experience family life from a variety of perspectives. It covers gender issues in family therapy theory, practice, and training; women in context (ethnicity and life cycle issues, marriage, motherhood, sisterhood, women alone, l...
This paper discusses the special roles sisters play in families including the complexity, intimacy and intricacy of sister relationships-their caretaking responsibilities, their competitiveness for male attention and approval, and their difficulties defining separate identities. Sister relationships are the longest relationships we have in life and...
Family physicians continue to struggle with the problem of how to make optimal use of family information in everyday clinical practice. One important task in addressing this problem is describing systematically the categories of family information that are incorporated into the usual clinical problem-solving process used by physicians. In this arti...
This second edition of the highly acclaimed "The Family Life Cycle" is much more than a simple update. Rather, "The Changing Family Life Cycle"—a provocative examination of family development and the variables that affect its course—emphasizes the changes in that life cycle as we move toward the 21st century.
"The Changing Family Life Cycle" offe...
Ethnic stereotypes in the family therapy literature make intuitive sense, but are based on surprisingly little empirical data. In a questionnaire survey of the family experiences of 220 mental health professionals representing eight American ethnic groups, most items differentiated the groups as predicted. A smaller, partial replication study compa...
Genograms are used in family therapy and family medicine to assess the family from a systemic perspective. Computerized genograms automate the process and allow the clinician to manipulate data in a number of different ways.
Americans are marrying out of their ethnic groups at an ever‐increasing rate, reflecting the expectation that people in this country will assimilate into what has been termed the “melting pot.” We know, however, that not all ingredients in the pot have melted and that ethnic values and identification remain with us for generations. The difficulties...
offer short sketches of a few ethnic groups to highlight some of the patterns [of common cultural stereotypes] / these characterizations are . . . to suggest the range of questions that a [family therapy] clinician may need to keep in mind in working with any group, or in understanding himself or herself / objective is to highlight questions that m...
This paper presents a paradigm for understanding the cultural values and family patterns of Irish-American families and offers suggestions for clinical intervention. Families' correspondence to the model described will depend upon their level of acculturation, socioeconomic status, and other contextual factors. The paradigm suggests a number of iss...
consider six different cultural patterns for dealing with death and the implications for family intervention with each
Irish families / Hindu Indian families / death and African-American culture / Puerto Rican families / Jewish families / mourning rituals in Chinese culture (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
assessing death in the family / dysfunctional adaptation to loss / clinical intervention [primary clinical goal, ritualizing loss, structuring therapy: meeting together or separately, genograms, asking questions, other methods of opening families to buried loss, underritualized and overritualized mourning, uncovering buried loss, recent losses, fam...
ethnicity persists in the consciousness of European Americans, in their perceptions, preferences, and behavior, even while mass production and mass communication homogenizes their outward appearances / psychologically, European Americans are often ambivalent about their identities, and are constantly trying to balance the pull of their family histo...
present a systemic view of loss, considering the impact of the death of a family member on the family as a functional unit, with immediate and long-term reverberations for every member and all other relationships / identify major family tasks that . . . promote the process of coming to terms with loss and moving forward with life / examine crucial...
timing of loss in the family life cycle / loss at different family life cycle stages [between families: unattached young adults, young couples: the joining of families through marriage, families with young children, families with adolescents, launching children and moving on, families in later life, death in divorced and remarried families] (PsycIN...
Traducción de: Genogroms in family assessment