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Family Conflict in the Psychopathology of the Kibbutz Child
Author(s) -
KAFFMAN MORDECAI
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1972.00171.x
Subject(s) - psychopathology , human settlement , psychology , emotional disorder , population , developmental psychology , incidence (geometry) , element (criminal law) , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , sociology , demography , geography , political science , anxiety , physics , archaeology , law , optics
Over the past twenty years, the author has had a unique opportunity to observe the incidence and nature of emotional disorders exhibited by the child population of about one hundred Israeli kibbutz settlements. An analysis of this clinical material shows that those factors related to disturbed relationships within the kibbutz family far outnumber all other pathogenic elements, both in the frequency of their appearance and the severity of their impact. A distinct pattern of family malfunctioning appears to be the most significant pathogenic element — this despite the centralized caretaking, training, and socializing functions of the kibbutz educators, to whom many tasks ordinarily performed by parents in the traditional family situation, have been delegated.