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The Family Stress Model (FSM) posits that economic disadvantage creates economic pressure for caregivers, which has a detrimental effect on their personal mental health, then parenting practices, and hence the well-being of children and adolescents. It grew out of research efforts to understand how economic disadvantage impacts family processes.
Family resilience emerged as scholars incorporated together ideas from general systems theory perspectives on families, family stress theory, and psychological resilience perspectives. [7] Two prominent approaches to family resilience are to view families as contexts of individual resilience and families as systems. [8]
The history of group dynamics (or group processes) [2] has a consistent, underlying premise: "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." A social group is an entity that has qualities which cannot be understood just by studying the individuals that make up the group.
Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This conceptualization, which has been labeled the biopsychosocial model, views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predisposition), behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health ...
The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities , each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities.
Subsequent studies of stress in humans by Richard Rahe and others established that stress is caused by distinct, measurable life stressors, and that these life stressors can be ranked by the median degree of stress they produce (leading to the Holmes and Rahe stress scale). Holmes and Rahe is focused on how life's stressors can influence ones ...
Bowen wrote about fifty papers, book chapters, and monographs based on his radically new relationships-based theory of human behavior. [11] [12] Some important publications were: 1966, The Use of Family Theory in Clinical Practice. 1974, Toward the Differentiation of Self in One's Family of Origin.
Structural family therapy (SFT) is a method of psychotherapy developed by Salvador Minuchin which addresses problems in functioning within a family. Structural family therapists strive to enter, or "join", the family system in therapy in order to understand the invisible rules which govern its functioning, map the relationships between family members or between subsets of the family, and ...