Family Functioning The General Living Systems Research Model
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 som
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Family Functioning The General Living Systems Research Model
John J. Schwab Helen M. Gray-Ice Florence R. Prentice University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky
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FOREWORD The family, that most fundamental of human groups, is currently perceived to be changing in response to social, biological, cultural and technological developments in our postmodern society. While the observed changes in families have been considered by some sociologists to be evidence of adaptation and, therefore, normal, the authors ofthis volume, consider them maladaptive. Viewing society from the point of view of clinical psychiatry, they point to greatly increased numbers of children born to single mothers, soaring rates of divorce, a statistically confirmed increase in m
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