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This study evaluated the relationship between two supervision models (live or delayed) to structural family therapy outcome. Eighteen families participated in this study for a maximum of ten family therapy sessions. Two indices of change were measured before and after family treatment, resolution or non-resolution of the family's presenting problem, and changes in family structure as measured by the FIAT. The Family Interaction Apperception Technique was used as the pre- and post-treatment measure of family structure. Presenting problem resolution or non-resolution was determined by the family's report and demonstration within the counseling session that the presenting problem was no longer a family concern. Problem resolution was judged by the case supervisor and reported on the Session and Problem Checklist.

The purpose of this dissertation was ta determine the usefulness of the linguistic processes of Distortion, Deletion, Generalization, and Semantic Ill-Formedness as constructs which differentiate the verbal communication in families who express dissatisfaction with their current intrafamilial relationships from the verbal communication in families expressing satisfaction with their current relationships. These linguistic constructs provide an intermediate link between abstract theoretical assumptions and concrete findings which abound in the field of family interaction research. Specifically, it was hypothesized that dissatisfied families would use these linguistic structures to a greater extent in their interaction than would satisfied families. Thirty-one family triads, consisting of father; mother, and child were obtained by asking families randomly selected from the local high school student directory to participate. The families were given a Revealed Differences questionnaire and a questionnaire eliciting information regarding their satisfaction with their intrafamilial relationships. The families we~e instructed to reach agreement on items of the Revealed Differences questionnaire which they had disagreed on and the discussion was tape recorded. The discussions were transcribed and each of 150 Surface Structures (a complete thought, usually a grammatical sentence) per family was scored for 11 subcategories of Distortion, Deletion, Generalization, and Semantic Ill-Formedness. Interrater reliabilities ranged from .86 to .98. A mean was computed for the questionnaire pertaining to satisfaction with family relationships. Six families who scored at least one half standard deviation below the mean comprised the "dissatisfied" family group, and six families who scored at least one half standard deviation above the mean comprised the "satisfied" family group. It was found that the dissatisfied families used significantly more Deletion (p The linguistic process of Deletion is theorized to result in impoverishing the speaker's model of the world and the behavioral choices available to the speaker. Similarly, the listener{s) who must respond to the impoverished model is limited in his response and behavioral options. Since all members of the dissatisfied families used this form of language, they perpetuate the impoverishing model of the world and the limitations on their behavior. It was concluded that, while not establishing an etiologic link between the use of Deletion and family dissatisfaction, Deletion is part of the current verbal interaction of families who express dissatisfaction. Further research involving families in which a member is symptomatic is warranted based on the findings of this study. Language may provide at least one form of explanation regarding the process by which families maintain homeostasis in the face of symptom development. The use of linguistic concepts shows promise as an intermediate link in family interaction theory as well as a form of intervention available to therapists.

This research project was carried out in Winnipeg Manitoba between October, 1970 and April, 1971. It is an exploratory study in which the authors used the concepts of complementary and symmetrical communication to code family interaction. Of the twenty-two families who were contacted through the Psychiatric Out-Patient Department of the Winnipeg General Hospital, nine consented to take part in the study. Complementary and symmetrical communication interaction elicited by a structured interview was tape recorded and coded for the two concepts. The results were correlated with the descriptions of the patient's behavior as recorded on the hospital charts. It was found that family interaction could be coded as symmetrical or complementary and that there was some relationship between communication patterns, descriptions of behaviour and the spouse who was labeled as the identified patient.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between family religiosity, family recreation, and family functioning. Mahoney's Joint Religious Activities Questionnaire was used to measure family religiosity, while Zabriskie's Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP) was used to measure family leisure involvement. Olson's Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales (FACES II) was used to measure family functioning. The sample consisted of 121 parents and 99 youth from various faith groups and were selected using a convenience and snowball sample. Results indicated that there was a relationship between family religiosity and family recreation, and that both family religiosity and family recreation had a significant influence on family functioning for this sample. Data collected from both parents and youth in families provided interesting insights into the nature of the impact of family religiosity and family recreation on family functioning. Family religiosity was the most significant predictor of family functioning for parents, whereas for youth, both family recreation and family religiosity were the significant predictors of family functioning. These findings provide specific implications for parents and professionals who work with families.

Using the theoretical approach of discursive psychology, this thesis examines the interactive uses of mental state talk, in particular the term want , in everyday family interaction. In mainstream cognitive psychology mental state terms are examined as words which signify internal referents. How individuals come to competently participate in social interaction is formulated as a problem of how individual, isolated minds come to understand the contents of other minds. This thesis challenges these individualistic notions and examines notions of wanting as interactionally managed participants concerns. The data are taken from two sources; a set of video recordings taken from a series of fly-on-the-wall documentary programmes which each focus on a particular family and videotapes of mealtimes recorded by three families. Recordings were initially transcribed verbatim and sections related to the emerging themes within the thesis were subsequently transcribed using the Jefferson notation system. These transcripts were then analysed, alongside repeated viewings of the video recordings. The thesis considers a range of analytic themes, which are interlinked via one of the primary research questions, which has been to examine how, and to what end, speakers routinely deploy notions of wanting in everyday talk-in-interaction. A major theme has been to highlight inherent problems with work in social cognition which uses experimental tasks to examine children s Theory of Mind and understanding of desires . I argue that the assumptions of this work are a gross simplification of the meaning wanting for both children and adults. A further theme has been to examine the sequential organisation of directives and requests in both adults and children s talk. Finally, I examine speakers practices for rejecting a proposal regarding their actions and for denying a formulation of their motivations by a co-interactant. The conclusions of the thesis show that expressions of wanting are practical expressions which work within a flow of interactional and deontic considerations and that making claims regarding one s own or others wants is entirely a social matter. I argue that rather than being examined for what they may reveal about the mind , mental state terms may be fruitfully examined as interactional matters.

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The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the usefulness of the linguistic processes of Distortion, Deletion, Generalization, and Semantic Ill-Formedness as constructs which differentiate the verbal communication of families who express dissatisfaction with their current intrafamilial relationships from families expressing satisfaction with their current relationships. Specifically, it was hypothesized that dissatisfied families would use these linguistic structures to a greater extent in their interaction than would satisfied families. Thirty-one family triads (father, mother, and child) were obtained by asking families randomly selected from the local high school student directory to participate. The families were given a Revealed Differences questionnaire which they subsequently discussed together and a questionnaire regarding their satisfaction with their intrafamilial relationships. The discussions were recorded and transcribed. Each of 150 Surface Structures (a complete thought, usually a grammatical sentence) per family was scored for 11 subcategories of Distortion, Deletion, Generalization, and Semantic Ill-Formedness. Interrater reliabilities ranged from .86 to .98. A mean was computed for the questionnaire pertaining to satisfaction with family relationships. Six families who scored at least one half standard deviation below the mean comprised the "dissatisfied" family group, and six families who scored at least one half standard deviation above the mean comprised the "satisfied" family group. It was found that the dissatisfied families used significantly more Deletion (p The linguistic process of Deletion is theorized to result in impoverishing the speaker's model of the world and the behavioral choices available to the speaker. Similarily, the listener(s) who must respond to the impoverished model is limited in his response and behavioral options. Since all members of the dissatisfied families used this form of language, they perpetuate the impoverishing model of the world and the limitations on their behavior. It was concluded that, while not establishing an etiologic link between the use of Deletion and family dissatisfaction, Deletion is part of the current verbal interaction of families who express dissatisfaction. Further research involving families in which a member is symptomatic is warranted based on the findings of this study. Language may provide at least one form of explanation regarding the process by which families maintain homeostasis in the face of symptom development. The use of linguistic concepts shows promise as an intermediate link in family interaction theory as well as a form of intervention available to therapists.

The tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use of adolescents was examined to see if any differences existed in the marital status of the adolescent's parents, the quality of family interaction for the adolescent, and the gender of the adolescent. Marital status was defined as intact families where adolescents were living with both biological parents, and nonintact families where adolescents had parents who were single, divorced, widowed, never married, and remarried. Data were from a survey that examined youth issues of 500 adolescents from a rural Utah county. It was hypothesized that marital type and quality of family interaction (family kindness, family hurtfulness, and family communication) would have an effect on adolescent tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use. Adolescents from intact families differed significantly from those in nonintact families in terms of substance use. This study also illustrated that being from an intact family is not enough to prevent adolescent substance use. Rather, the combination of having an intact family and perceiving family kindness had the greatest deterring effect on substance use among adolescents. Family kindness had the greatest impact in deterring tobacco and alcohol use. Family hurtfulness, on the other hand, was the strongest indicator of marijuana use. Gender was a factor in only one of the dependent variables, tobacco, with males using more than females.

A partir da utilização alegórica do conto A roupa nova do imperador, construímos analogias relacionadas à sustentação: da onipotência do bebê imperativo; das ilusões criadoras e das fantasias; e dos revestimentos fantasiosos sobre uma nudez psíquica constitutiva. Nas sobreposições fantasiosas, do bebê e da parentalidade, a interação foi considerada um encontro que abre espaço para a criatividade e o ineditismo da experiência. Logo, o cuidado, sustentado pela intersubjetividade e pela intercorporalidade, atestou o potencial transformador da interação e a importância das práticas parentais realizadas cotidianamente junto ao bebê. Isto posto, tivemos como objetivos investigar: o processo de constituição das interações diádicas e triádicas entre pai, mãe e bebê; as articulações entre o material de pesquisa e os referenciais familiares contemporâneos em torno da parentalidade, com ênfase na família constituída pelo casal heterossexual; a construção de um modelo de interação triádica; e as contribuições da metodologia utilizada. Sob a fundamentação teórica da Psicanálise, com destaque para a teoria winnicottiana, e dos Estudos Psicossociais, a pesquisa foi conduzida por uma adaptação do Método Bick de Observação Infantil, no qual duas tríades (pai-mãe-bebê), provenientes da cidade de Maceió/Brasil, foram observadas por três meses (6º ao 9º mês de idade dos bebês). Foram realizadas duas entrevistas semiestruturadas com cada casal. A análise conduziu uma discussão a respeito das categorias: processos interativos e práticas de cuidado; construção narrativa de setting; e, modelos de interação diádica e triádica. Os resultados apontam: a construção de práticas de cuidado e revestimentos parentais atualizados pelo encontro com o bebê, num processo de sustentação das interações diádicas e triádicas; e interações e revestimentos parentais que exerceram um caráter de sobreposição, com predominância de processos interativos diádicos em que pai e/ou bebê ocuparam posições de terceiros separadores e/ou excluídos. Concluímos que a possibilidade de um cuidado parental igualitário sustentou a existência de um modelo de interação triádica, enquanto o cuidado exercido a partir de um referencial parental hierárquico foi associado a um modelo de interação diádica / Considering the allegorical use of the tale The Emperors New Clothes, we have made some analogies to support: the omnipotence of an imperative baby; the importance of creative illusions and fantasies; and the coating process that creates fantasy on a constitutive psychic nudity. In the overlapping fantasies of the baby and the parent couple, interaction was considered to be an encounter in which space for creativity and novelty of experience is produced. Therefore, while care is supported by intersubjectivity and intercorporeality, it attests the transformative potential of interaction and the importance of the parental practices performed daily with the baby. Based on these remarks, this study aimed at investigating: the process in which dyadic and triadic interactions between father, mother and baby are produced; the relation between research material and references concerning parenting on contemporary family, with emphasis on families with heterosexual couples; the construction of a triadic interaction model and; the contributions of the methodology used. This study was based on Psychoanalysis, with emphasis on Winnicottian theory and Psychosocial Studies. Research was conducted using an adaptation of the Bick Method of Infant Observation, in which two triads (father-mother-baby) from the city of Maceió/Brazil were observed for three months (6th to 9th month of age of the babies). Two semi-structured interviews were conducted with each couple. Analysis was conducted through the following categories: interactive processes and care practices; narrative construction of settings; and, dyadic and triadic interaction models. Results show: the construction of care practices and parental coatings updated by the encounter with the baby, in a process that supports the dyadic and triadic interactions; and parental interactions and coatings that performed an overlapping aspect, with predominance of dyadic interactive processes in which father and / or baby occupied third-party positions and/or were excluded. We conclude that the possibility of an egalitarian parental care supported the existence of a triadic interaction model, while the care achieved by an hierarchical parenting reference was related to a dyadic interaction model