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Fisiloglu, Ayse Gul; Fisiloglu, Hurol – American Annals of the Deaf, 1996
The Family Assessment Device was given to 40 families of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and 20 families of hearing children in Turkey. Significant differences were found between the two groups in problem solving, but not in communication, roles, affective responses, affective involvement, behavior control, and general functioning. (DB)
Descriptors: Deafness, Family Environment, Family Problems, Family Relationship
Elizur, Joel – 1990
Dysfunctional relations between the family and other social systems usually play a part in maintaining refractory problems and chronic patienthood. Therapeutic interventions need to work at this interface, in order to create a collaborative team that will provide sufficient support to the family at risk. This way of working can be easily applied…
Descriptors: Community Role, Counseling Techniques, Family Counseling, Family Problems
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James, Kerrie; McIntyre, Deborah – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1983
Argues that family therapy, while highlighting the significance of family functioning for individual experience, has failed to respond to the critical analyses of the family that have recently been offered by the women's movement. Consequently, it cannot investigate the possibility that "dysfunction" in families is actually socially…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Family Problems, Family Relationship, Feminism
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Ehrlich, Marc I. – Journal of School Psychology, 1983
Presents a model for understanding relationships between family functioning and children's school disorders. Five transactional patterns are identified as supporting a school disturbance: enmeshment, overprotectiveness, rigidity, lack of conflict resolution, and child intrusion in marital conflict. Treatment suggestions are provided, with emphasis…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Counseling
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Kaplan, Marvin L.; Kaplan, Netta R. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1982
Outlines two formulations that generate conceptual perspectives of immediate phenomena: (1) the family system has a time-enduring stability; (2) the family system has an immediate and temporary organization. Integrates systems thinking and Gestalt Therapy while recognizing individual experience as embedded in a self-maintaining system of the…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Experience, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Counseling
Ehrlich, Marc I. – 1982
A child's school disorder can, and most often does, exist within the complexity of the family's transactional patterns and must be dealt with in this context. To do so, a conceptual model of family dynamics is needed. Minuchin (1979) offers a theoretical framework to help structure such a model. He and his colleagues identified five common…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Family Characteristics, Family Influence, Family Problems