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Family Structure and Stress
Author(s) -
LEWIS JERRY M.
Publication year - 1986
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.1545-5300.1986.00235.x
Subject(s) - normative , psychology , intervention (counseling) , developmental psychology , stress (linguistics) , function (biology) , social psychology , political science , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , evolutionary biology , law , biology
This report presents an evolving theoretical model of the relationship between normative and severe stresses and a family's organizational structure. It is useful for understanding these processes and for planning treatment intervention for families at several levels of function: competent, dominant‐submissive, chronically conflicted, and severely disturbed.