Beyond the Systems Paradigm Emerging Constructs in Family and Personality Psychology /

• Main Author: L'Abate, Luciano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Experiential research.; Developmental psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Psychology Research.

Mother, father, children together in a household. The number of U.S. families fitting that profile is declining steadily. And yet this arrangement is still the basis of so much of family systems theory and therapy--while the disconnect between theory and therapy is widening.  In response, Beyond the...

Table of Contents:

• The Meaning of Constructs
• The Decline and possible Demise of Family  Psychology: Families without Personalities
• The Decline and possible Demise of Personality  Psychology: Personalities without Families
• The (Slow but Sure) Rise of  Attachment Theory,  Communication and Relationship Science
• Relational Competence Theory: Toward a Comprehensive Classification  of Human Relationship
• Conclusion: Identity as an Overarching Construct in Relational Competence Theory.