A family-oriented clinical simulation for training physical therapists is described and compared to other role-playing techniques. Advantages, disadvantages, and potential contributions to the student's professional growth are discussed. (SK)

In an effort to generate hypotheses on the increase in youth suicide in the United States, studies from other countries are reviewed, which relate suicide to factors within the general areas of the family, religion, transition and mobility, achievement motivation, and aggression. American trends in these areas are examined. (SJL)

Whereas research in the 60s tended to view domestic violence as rare and confined to mentally disturbed and/or poor people, research in the 70s revealed family violence as an extensive phenomenon which could not be explained solely as a consequence of psychological factors or income. (Author)

Sketching trends in marriage, divorce, and children's lives, the author predicts that leading topics of family researchers in the 1980s will include family violence, the quality of marital and parent/child relationships, divorce and remarriage, fertility, dual career families, and family demography. Adapted from "The Wilson Quarterly," Summer…

Rape is a crisis shared by the victim and her family. The family's reaction is influenced by cultural views such as viewing rape as sex rather than violence. Adaptive responses can be supported by open expression, education, and family, as well as individual counseling. (JAC)

The problems of single parents are discussed here, including issues of finances, housing, employment, and child care. Suggestions are given for dealing with responsibility overload. (LD)

Discusses the role of the school and the government in helping one-parent families under stress. (Author/LD)

This study compared parents of children with neuromuscular diseases to parents of children with psychiatric diagnoses, using the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress. The groups showed different patterns of stress relating to child care. Within the neuromuscular group, parental stress increased with the severity of the child's illness.…

Examined the impact of support systems on post-divorce family functioning. Results suggest that families under extreme stress need to be provided with relatively high levels of support or their dissatisfaction with support systems will appear in harsher and more restrictive relationships with children. (Author)

The impact, threat, power, and taboo that death and dying hold for the contemporary American can be diffused if the family and the individual take charge by putting death in the context of their living. Families live their dying through their natural rhythms of attachment and separation, affiliation and individuation. (Author)

This paper attempts to summarize the highlights of selected findings in research related to widowhood. The following selected topics are included: death and adjustment, the problems of the widow and the children and widowhood. (Author)

This study showed that culture conflict and achievement motivation were the most important of five factors affecting academic achievement of Indian high school students in Seattle, Washington. (MM)

This study is based on data gathered in interviews with 400 families with a developmentally disabled family member. The study supports the need for supportive services to ease the demands created by the handicapped person and reports the types of services perceived by these families as needed. (Author)

Examined within-family differences in parenting and problem behavior in 95 nondivorced and 421 remarried families. Within-family differences in parenting and problem behavior were greatest in remarried families where siblings did not share the same biological parent. Differential treatment was also more strongly related to problem behavior in this…

Examined how spousal behaviors related to global and daily marital satisfaction. Eighty-two couples completed daily checklists of spousal behaviors for seven days using an individualized or a standardized assessment method. Daily behavioral event measures were significantly related to global and daily measures of marital satisfaction,…