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FAMILY ASSESSMENT DEVICE: REPORTS FROM MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND ADOLESCENTS IN COMMUNITY AND CLINIC FAMILIES
Author(s) -
Sawyer Michael G.,
Sarris Aspasia,
Baghurst Peter A.,
Cross Darryl G.,
Kalucy Ross S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1988.tb00748.x
Subject(s) - mental health , psychology , mental health service , metropolitan area , community service , medicine , clinical psychology , community health , family medicine , developmental psychology , psychiatry , public health , nursing , public relations , pathology , political science
This study compared responses on the 60‐item version of the Family Assessment Device (FAD) obtained from mothers, fathers, and adolescents in two groups of families. The clinic group consisted of 94 families in which the adolescent had been referred to a mental health service in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. The community group consisted of 94 families, also containing an adolescent, living in the Adelaide community. Members of the clinic families consistently rated their families as less healthy than did families in the community. Importantly however, adolescents in both groups of families rated their families as significantly less healthy than their parents. Thus, while the results of the study provide support for the discriminative validity of the FAD, they also emphasize the need to consider separately self‐reports on family functioning obtained from different members of the same family.