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Family Functioning - The General Living Systems Research Model (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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Family Functioning - The General Living Systems Research Model (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry
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The family, that most fundamentalof human groups, is currently
perceived to be changing in response to social, biological,
cultural and technological developments in our postmodernsociety.
While the observed changes in families have been considered by some
sociologists to be evidence of adaptation and, therefore, normal,
the authors of this volume, consider them maladaptive. Viewing
society from the point of view of clinical psychiatry, they point
to greatly increased numbers of children born to single mothers,
soaring rates of divorce, a statistically confirmed increase in
mental disorders, increase in reported incest, high rates of
depression in younger people and escalation of the amount of
reported family violence as evidence that the family, as a social
institution, is in crisis and can either move toward renewed
vitality or continued deterioration. Perceiving a need to obtain
information about family functioning that might lead to the
increased stability and well-being of this critically important
type of system, Dr. John Schwab and his associates designed and
camed out a research program that began with a thorough review of
relevant literature beginning with LePlay's study of 300 families
in the 1850'sand including important recent statistical studies.
They found that although these studies represent advances in
understanding the family system, some serious problems with the
research remain, one of which is confounding variables such as
family function and mental or substance abuse disorders so that if
a family member has a problem, such as drug abuse, the family is
classifiedasdysfunctional.
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