Suggests ways of dealing with family adjustment and reorganization following birth of a mentally retarded child through a shift in emphasis from the identified patient to overall family systems and members. Major goals, periods of crisis, family reactions, and basic techniques are suggested. (Author/JC)

Discusses a study examining the relationship between geographic mobility, kinship ties and social status for a sample of Mexican immigrants who were interviewed upon entry to the United States and reinterviewed three years later. Attempts to determine whether and how maintenance of kinship ties influences the integration of immigrants. (Author/MK)

Some aspects of the relationship between young adult grandchildren and grandparents are examined. Results suggested the grandparent's kin position relative to the grandchild was a critical variable, more so than the grandparent's sex, in influencing the intensity of the bond. Other results are reviewed. (Author)

A mother reviews the family's experiences with a young cerebral palsied daughter, including schooling, travel, and summer camp. The daughter herself, now an adult, remembers early struggles to communicate. (CL)

Two experiments studied how people determine relationships among family members. In one experiment, subjects were to determine relationships in hypothetical families. In the second, the families were in the subjects' experience. It was determined that memory was organized in terms of parent-child relations together with knowledge of which members…

The mother of a retarded child relates her experiences in adjusting to her child's handicap and offers an excerpt of a journal she kept while participating in group counseling for parents of disabled children. (SBH)

This article attempts to integrate concepts from psychoanalytic literature on parent loss with concepts from family literature in order to demonstrate their compatibility. A case is described that suggests that family treatment for this patient population provides the optimal opportunity for comprehensive diagnosis and treatment planning. (Author)

The reactions of the entire family system to the death of a child are examined. The case illustrates therapeutic interventions dealing with changes in family structure, guilt and mourning processes in parents, anxiety and other reactions of children, and the cognitive confusion of both children and adults. (Author)

Discusses the negative impact of television viewing on academic achievement and family life, examining what television chases out of family life (e.g., childhood memories of ordinary days, free time and resourcefulness, and family rituals). Explains how to gain control via parental efforts (e.g., no television on school days); natural limits…

Counselors who take an ecological perspective on family relationships may be more effective in their consultation, prevention, and direct service roles. Summarizes current research on the nature of parent and child attachments and on the importance of monitoring children's environments. Implications of this research are suggested for counselors…

Reviews research and outlines patterns of support among in-laws. Examines parental aid to married children and indirectly to their spouses, help directed specifically toward children-in-law, in-law support in later life, and effects of marital dissolution on in-law support. Includes discussion of how various demographic factors may affect nature…

Presents both a conceptual model (which partitions family data into individual, dyadic, and family effects and permits examination of several types of interdependence between family members) and an analytical method (confirmatory factor analysis) that can be used in the evaluation of round-robin family research data. (SR)

Examined associations between children's psychological adjustment in stepfather families and their relationships with their noncustodial fathers and paternal grandparents. Results from 98 children and their families indicated no differences in contact or relationship quality with noncustodial fathers or paternal grandparents for boys or girls or…

Compared low and high socioeconomic status (SES) drug-abusing adolescents. Found that the two groups did not differ significantly with respect to self-esteem, quality of family relationships, impulse control, moral development, and drug-taking behavior. High SES adolescents were more depressed and anxious than were low SES adolescents. Findings…