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Gullotta, Thomas P.; Donohue, Kevin C. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Characteristics of a corporate family style of functioning are defined. Crisis is seen coming from a disruption in the support system of one or more members of the family. The objective of treatment is to reinforce the family without necessarily changing their values or style of functioning. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Counseling Objectives, Family Characteristics

Constantine, Larry L. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1983
Develops a detailed profile of dysfunction and disablement in the open family system: its intrinsic defects, response to crisis, and likely process of breakdown when overstressed. Suggests that somatic symptoms of stress in children may grow out of accelerated independence combined with parental overinvolvement. (JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Decision Making, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Problems
Nelson, Randolph J. – 1980
A systems model is presented which combines critical incident research techniques and systems methodology to improve individual decision-making. The model: (1) revolves around a critical incident approach to understanding personal history of decision-making in several environments such as family, educational, and vocational; (2) utilizes the…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Critical Incidents Method, Decision Making
Buerkel-Rothfuss, Nancy L.; Covert, Anita Miller – 1982
This document proposes the adoption of a rules-based theoretical perspective for the study of family interaction. In the first section, Logical and Empirical Requirements, concepts and basic assumptions pertinent to rules theory are considered. The concepts of coordination and determinacy, as used in a rules framework, are explained, and logical…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Family Relationship, Family Structure
Glenn, Christine G.; And Others – 1981
This paper focuses on the systems approach in family therapy and attempts to further the development of this approach by defining its assumptions and delineating the relationship between the assumptions and their operationalization in assessment and therapy. The first section identifies two basic assumptions of a systemic approach, i.e., that the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Family Attitudes

Sluzki, Carlos E. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1981
Discusses symptom production and symptom maintenance in terms of psychodynamic and system-oriented family therapy approaches. The conceptual and operational hypotheses of both approaches stem from different logics. Describes their different sets of data, lines of inquiry and treatment strategies. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Techniques
Neilans, Thomas H.; And Others – 1981
This paper describes the application of a systems approach model to assessing families with a labeled noncompliant child. The first section describes and comments on the applied methodology for the model. The second section describes the classification of 61 families containing a child labeled by the family as noncompliant. An analysis of data…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Classification, Family Counseling
Filsinger, Erik E. – 1982
This paper presents a model or framework of marital adjustment, for both the researcher and the practitioner, which provides description, explanation, and modification, i.e., ways in which the model can be changed that are theoretically connected with the description and the explanation. A typology of relationship processes is proposed which…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories
McCubbin, Hamilton I.; Patterson, Joan M. – 1981
Recent developments in family stress and coping research and a review of data and observations of families in a war-induced crisis situation led to an investigation of the relationship between a stressor and family outcomes. The study, based on the Double ABCX Model in which A (the stressor event) interacts with B (the family's crisis-meeting…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Coping