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Family System Functioning: Behavior in the Laboratory and the Family Treatment Setting
Author(s) -
DOANE JERI A.,
HILL LEONARD W.,
KASLOW NADINE,
QUINLAN DONALD
Publication year - 1988
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.1545-5300.1988.00213.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychology , family environment scale , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics
The Family System Functioning (FSF) scale is a new instrument for measuring dimensions of the intrafamilial environment thought to be important in recovery from major psychiatric illness. Modest statistical correlations were obtained when FSF ratings of laboratory‐based family interactions were compared with researcher‐guided therapist ratings of FSF based upon the family's behavior in family therapy sessions during the subsequent month. The data from these two settings provide support for the validity of some of the scales. Because of the modest size of the correlations, however, behavior in the laboratory setting may not always be an accurate indicator of how the family will behave in the early weeks of family therapy.