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My Family Made Me Do It: The Influence of Family Therapists' Families of Origin on Their Occupational Choice
Author(s) -
GOLDKLANK SHELLY
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.1545-5300.1986.00309.x
Subject(s) - complementarity (molecular biology) , folklore , psychology , test (biology) , occupational therapy , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , sociology , paleontology , genetics , anthropology , biology
This study is an empirical test and exploration of the folklore about family life correlates of family therapists' occupational choice. The folklore is translated into systems concepts, including role complementarity and the mutually determining effect of process and roles. Fifty‐nine family therapists, 49 siblings of the therapists, and 51 undifferentiated, non‐helping professionals were compared on FACES (29), The Complementary Role Questionnaire, and on demographic data. Inconsistencies in the results led to a critique of the clinical faithfulness of current systems measures. Family therapists did not differ on FACES, but did differ in aspects of roles from their siblings and from the control professionals.