Family Functioning The General Living Systems Research Model /

• Main Authors: Schwab, John J. (Author), Gray-Ice, Helen M. (Author), Prentice, Florence R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Critical Issues in Psychiatry
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Social sciences.; Social work.; Clinical psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Clinical Psychology.; Social Sciences, general.; Social Work.

The family, that most fundamentalof human groups, is currently perceived to be changing in response to social, biological, cultural and technological developments in our postmodernsociety. While the observed changes in families have been considered by some sociologists to be evidence of adaptation a...

Table of Contents:

• The Traditional Family in State of Flux
• Family Function: An Historical and Research Review
• The Background and Development of General Living Systems Theory
• Background, Research Methods, and the Epidemiologic Study
• Pilot Study I — Results — The Assessment of Family Functioning
• Study II—The Use of the Family Functioning Assessment with A Clinic Population
• The Applicability of the GLS Model and Assessment Instrument to Different Populations
• Critique and Recommendations.