In the course of this work, a number of important clinical phenomena have been analyzed: family correlates of psychopathology, the processes by which families engage in treatment programs, families’ support networks, and families’ response to stress.Īdams, B. This approach has aimed at understanding the family process in clinical families as well as in those who have never sought help for psychological distress or problems in relationships among members. The best known of these methods are laboratory, problem-solving procedures, although questionnaires, field observations, and structured interviews have also been used. The research has used a variety of objective and quantitative methods for studying the family. These explorations have been guided by an evolving theory of family process currently, the most familiar concept in this theory is the notion of the family’s paradigm, which refers to the underlying assumptions about reality that, in any family, are presumed to be shared by all members.
They have focused their work on differences among families in their conceptions of the safety or danger in the world, the families’ belief about whether the world treats the family as a group or as isolated individuals, and the novelty or familiarity that the families experience in their environment.
During the last 15 years, David Reiss and his associates have explored ways in which the family develops and maintains its own, distinctive convictions about reality.
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