The Family's Construction of Reality

by Reiss, David

• ISBN13: 9780674294165
• ISBN10: 0674294165
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-02-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Reiss presents o new model of family interaction grounded in the subtle and complex way in which a family constructs its inner life and deals with the outside world. Based upon fifteen years of research, the book offers a new understanding of the covert processes that hold a family together and, with distressing frequency, pull it apart.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Charting Our Course

Family Problem Solving and Family Interpreting

The Family Construction of the Laboratory

Family Information Processing and Schizophrenia

A Theoretical Sketch of Family Information Processing

Three Measures of Family Information Processing

Schizophrenia and Family Information Processing

Beyond Family Information

Processing: The Family Construes the Laboratory

The Concept of a Shared Construct

A Typology of Shared Constructs Dimensions of Family Constructs

Family Problem Solving and Shared Construing Strategy

One: Comparing

Three Groups of Families Strategy

Two: Direct Assessments of Shared Construing Strategy

Three: Pursuing Significant Alternate Hypotheses

Family Crisis and Family Paradigm

The Role of the Family in Organizing Experience

Personal Explanatory Systems

The Family as Originator of Explanatory

Systems How Prevalent Is the Originative Family?

Crisis and the Development of the Family

Paradigm Outline of a New Model

Family Stress and Disorganization Vulnerability to Stress and Disorganization

Family Reorganization

The Abstraction of the Family Paradigm

The Need for Abstraction The Process of Social Abstraction

The Results of Abstraction Abstraction and Paradigm

The Conservation of the Family Paradigm

The Temporal Patterning of Crisis and Change

The Medium of Conservation Interaction

Behavior in the Conservation of the Family Paradigm

The Specificity of Conservation

The Family's Bond to Its Social World

Orienting Concepts in Family--Environment Organization

The Cycle Hypothesis Components of the Cycle

Hypothesis Links between the Family and Its Social World Organizing

Constructions in the Social

Environment Paradigm, Code, Map, and Objective: Central Correspondences

Family Paradigm, Links, and Environment: A Concluding Example

Exploring the Cycle Hypothesis

The Organizational Objective Short--Term

Links between the Family and the Environment Long--Term

Links between the Family and the Environment

Matching the Cycle Hypothesis and the Findings

Conclusion

A Second Look at Shared Constructs

Notes

References

Index

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