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| Family Process Heft 3/1999 |
| 1/1999 - 2/1999 - 3/1999 - 4/1999 - Überblick Anderson, Carol M. (1999): IN MEMORIAM: Neil S. Jacobson, Ph.D. (February 23, 1949-June 2, 1999). In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 259-264 Cunningham, Phillippe B. & Scott W. Henggeler (1999): Engaging Multiproblem Families in Treatment: Lessons Learned Throughout the Development of Multisystemic Therapy. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 265-281. abstract: Multisystemic therapy (MST) is a family-based treatment model that has achieved high rates of treatment completion with youths who present serious clinical problems, and their families. The success of MST in engaging challenging families in treatment is due to programmatic commitments to family collaboration and partnership as well as to a conceptual process that delineates barriers to family engagement, develops and implements strategies to overcome these barriers, and evaluates the success of these strategies. This article provides an overview of the nonspecific/universal engagement strategies used by MST therapists, frequently observed barriers to achieving therapist-family engagement, and specific strategies to overcome a sampling of these barriers. Stern, Susan B. (1999): Commentary: Challenges To Family Engagement: What Can Multisystemic Therapy Teach Family Therapists? In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 281-286 Gottman, John Mordechai & Robert Wayne Levenson (1999): Rebound from Marital Conflict and Divorce Prediction. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 287-292. abstract: Marital interaction has primarily been examined in the context of conflict resolution. This study investigated the predictive ability of couples to rebound from marital conflict in a subsequent positive conversation. Results showed that there was a great deal of consistency in affect across both conversations. Also examined was the ability of affective interaction to predict divorce over a 4-year period, separately in each of the two conversations. It was possible to predict divorce using affective variables from each conversation, with 82.6% accuracy from the conflict conversation and with 92.7% accuracy from the positive rebound conversation. Carrere, Sybil & John Mordechai Gottman (1999): Predicting Divorce among Newlyweds from the First Three Minutes of a Marital Conflict Discussion. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 293-301. abstract: This study tested the hypothesis that how a discussion of a marital conflict begins - in its first few minutes - is a predictor of divorce. The marital conflict discussion of 124 newlywed couples was coded using the Specific Affect Coding System, and the data were divided into positive, negative, and positive-minus-negative affect totals for five 3-minute intervals. It was possible to predict marital outcome over a 6-year period using just the first 3 minutes of data for both husbands and wives. For husbands this prediction improved as the groups diverged in the remaining 12 minutes; for wives the prediction remained equally powerful for the remaining 12 minutes as it had been in the first 3 minutes. Andrews Horowitz, June (1999): Negotiating Couplehood: The Process of Resolving the December Dilemma among Interfaith Couples. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 303-323. abstract: Christmas forces interfaith couples to address questions concerning holiday observances. The purpose of this investigation was to explore the experience of the „December dilemma,“ that is, the experience of Christmas and Hanukah among couples in which one partner is Jewish. A qualitative design based on the continuous comparison method of Grounded Theory analysis was used. Participants were solicited through interfaith couples‘ programs, referral, and snowballing. Unstructured interactive interviews of 22 couples were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed. The categories generated were: Ghosts of Christmas and Hanukah Past, Coming Together, and Holiday Observances as a Couple. The basic problem facing these couples was how to bridge religious backgrounds with differing holiday traditions in a way that integrated respect for each partner‘s needs, heritage, and identity. The basic social process of negotiating „couplehood,“ that is, moving from individuality to partnership emerged when mutual agreement could be reached to solve problems about how to celebrate the December holidays. The data indicated that exploration of the ways these couples managed the dilemmas created by the December holidays provided a window to how they negotiated other challenges in their relationships. Knudson-Martin, Carmen & Anne Rankin Mahoney (1999): Beyond Different Worlds: A „Postgender“ Approach to Relational Development. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 325-340. abstract: Approaches to gender in therapy either reinforce or challenge existing gender differences and inequalities. The authors suggest a way to help clients move beyond gender constructions from the past. They argue that perceived gender differences are rooted in power differences that limit relational development for both women and men, and perpetuate unequal relationship structures. As an alternative to the „two different worlds,“ gender-as-culture framework, they present an approach to therapy based on an expanded version of Bowen‘s notion of differentiation. The article helps therapists recognize four „gender traps“ that interfere with relational development and suggests strategies for helping clients differentiate from old gender patterns. Kinsman, Anne M., Beth G. Wildman & William D. Smucker (1999): Relationships among Parental Reports of Child, Parent, and Family Functioning. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 341-351. abstract: Most children with psychosocial problems do not present for treatment in mental health settings. They are managed by primary care physicians. Children with psychosocial problems often have parents and/or families with psychosocial distress. The present study measured associations between parental reports of child, parent, and family functioning in individuals in the general population. Participants were 226 parents of children, aged 2-16 years, who presented for routine primary care. Parents reported on the psychosocial functioning of themselves, their child, and their family. All correlations of measures were significant, ranging from.55 to.23. Similar to data from psychiatric samples, the psychological functioning of children, parents, and families were significantly correlated. Unlike in psychiatric settings, child mental health problems were not as closely related to parent or family distress as parent and family distress were related to each other and to child behavior problems. Stern, Sergio, Moira Doolan, Emma Staples, George L. Szmukler & Ivan Eisler (1999): Disruption and Reconstruction: Narrative Insights into the Experience of Family Members Caring for a Relative Diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 353-369. abstract: The findings of a study investigating carers‘ accounts about serious mental illness occurring in their family are presented. The narrative form is a primary means of ordering, structuring, and communicating illness experiences, reflecting some of the processes that carers intend to master and understand. Psychotic episodes entail a frightening disruption that forces carers to face fundamental existential, moral, and psychological issues because they call into question the continuity of lives and life-projects. This study has explored how carers articulate the consequences of a devastating experience and turn it into a meaningful event that can in some way be incorporated into the course of their life. Two types of narrative structure were identified. In stories of restitution or reparation, the experience of the event is transformed into phenomena having meaning, occupying a place in carers‘ lives. In chaotic and frozen narratives, the illness remains a series of random events. The effects on coping of these two narrative types were explored, as well as gender-related themes and beliefs about mastery and control. Therapeutic implications are discussed and also possible connections to other research constructs (for example, Expressed Emotion). It is argued that the concept of illness must be approached from a systemic, multidetermined perspective that includes our narrative constructions. Redekop, Fred, Scott Stuart & Carol Mertens (1999): Physical „Phantasies“ and Family Functions: Overcoming the Mind/Body Dualism in Somatization. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 371-385. abstract: In this article, we examine some of the ways in which family therapists have conceptualized the experience of illness of unexplained physical origin. We argue that opinions about the etiology of somatic symptoms should not be the primary focus of therapeutic work with people who share the prototypical characteristics of what has been defined as „somatization disorder.“ We suggest that current research in neurobiology can expand the linguistic resources of clinicians and help them avoid perpetuating unhelpful dichotomies between the mind and the body. Anderson, Carol M. (1999): Abstracts and Notes of Interest. In: Family Process 38 (3): S. 387-389 Published by
arrangement with John Wiley & Sons
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