Studied 44 patients in marital or family therapy at an outpatient clinic and offered them the opportunity to list new complaints at subsequent assessment points in addition to the initial session. More than half the patients reported new problems, and when these arose, they were significantly correlated with outcomes. (BH)

The internal consistency of the short-form of the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress was examined with 189 parents of handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Reliability and factor analysis procedures revealed psychometric weaknesses across scales. Positive outcomes were discussed regarding the clinical value of the instrument. (Author/DB)

Used Double ABC-X Model of family stress to develop a theoretical model of the parental divorce transition. Custodial mothers' economic well-being correlated negatively with legal stressors. Other significant independent variables were income during marriage, employment, education, number of children, and her remarriage. For noncustodial fathers,…

This article describes some family images and approaches to problems found in some of television's daytime soap operas'' and raises the question of whether viewers would choose to follow fantasy each day if given other options. (Author)

Presented is a psychiatric perspective on the effects a deaf child has on a family. (Author/DB)

Consequences of teenage pregnancy and parenthood, effects on the adolescent mother, factors involved in adolescent pregnancy, and pregnancy prevention programs are discussed. (RH)

Reviews early attempts to classify the field of family therapy, including Haley's caricatures, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry's classification, and others. The new paradigmatic model proposes a classification of the field of family therapy in terms of three therapeutic paradigms: the historical, the structure/process, and the…

Some important dynamics of underachievement are explored, and eight guidelines for intervention are suggested, including spelling out the issues, expectations, and intervention plan concretely; and expecting, confronting, and heading off sabotages if possible. (DLS)

Points out problems of young people whose troubled lives are further endangered by the decline in the American economy. Advocates a major job program for youth. (RH)

The long-held fiction that this is a society without class distinctions, that everyone has an equal chance, helps to keep the working class from a sustained and organized effort on its own behalf. (JOW)

The article examines several different approaches to case management practices. An enabling model of case management is proposed as a framework for ensuring that early intervention practices optimally influence child, parent, and family functioning as part of development and implementation of Individualized Family Service Plans. (DB)

Discusses how, when a child is the identified patient and family therapy is treatment, therapeutic process can be facilitated by conducting at least small number of individual sessions with child. Notes that such behavior by therapist communicates to children, parents, and involved referral sources respect for their opinions and lays groundwork…

Highlights history and features of the Federal Witness Protection Program, characteristics of individuals in the program, and factors affecting both the individuals and their relocated and abandoned families. Includes brief case history and highlights therapeutic clinical concerns when therapist's clients are participating in Federal Witness…

Presents method for quickly and graphically clarifying relationship between life cycle events and the onset of problems in families. Describes how to laterally organize events in terms of points in time at which they occurred and explains structural version, expressed into formats, that elucidates interaction between nodal events and changes in…