Understanding the factors that place an individual at greater risk of developing psychopathology has important implications for both treatment and prevention of psychological disorders. Of critical relevance in this regard is the exploration of the potential influence of the family. Parenting and the family environment are considered to significantly contribute to a child's early development and adjustment. It follows then that parental behavior may also be of importance in the development, maintenance and or the prevention of psychopathology. Over the past 50 years there has been a considerable amount of research as well as controversy surrounding the link between parenting and psychopathology. The purpose of this book is to provide researchers and clinicians with state-of-the art research findings, presented by experts in the field, on the role of the family in the development and maintenance of psychopathology. This edited book is divided into 3 sections. The first addresses broader issues of theory and methodology and the second provides separate chapters relating to the role of the family in the development and maintenance of specific psychopathologies. A final section discusses the involvement of the family in treatment and prevention.
Psychopathology and Family Dynamics
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Providing an authoritative review of the influence of the family on individual behavior, this book shows how many individual psychopathologies stem from external rather than internal conditions.
In Fathers Who Fail, Melvin Lansky remedies this glaring lacuna in the literature.
Thus, it is particularly important to review, however briefly, the contributions of paradigm theory to concepts of treatment. Some years ago, W. Ross Ashby (1975) made the influential distinction between first- and second-order change ...
The Wiley Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology offers a concise, up-to-date, and international overview of the study of developmental psychopathology.
Family Interaction and Communication in Psychopathology: An Evaluation of Recent Perspectives
It then deals with such disruptions and dysfunctions in the family life cycle as abuse, divorce, death, illness and marital problems. Concludes with implications of this viewpoint for developmental theory and clinical application.
Family Interaction and Psychopathology
Advances in developmental psychopathology have burgeoned since the 2006 publication of the second edition ten years ago, and keeping up on the latest findings in multiple avenues of investigation can be burdensome to the busy professional ...