Healthy Family Functioning: Conceptual and Research Developments
回顾了家庭过程研究从关注缺陷转向关注常态的进展，整合了家庭治疗和社会科学的研究，提出了一个包含组织模式、沟通过程和多代生命周期模式与信念系统的家庭功能整合框架。
An important development in family process research has been the redirection from a family deficit focus to a normality based orientation. This approach seeks to identify the family strengths and resources that are crucial in mastering life challenges and promoting the well-being and healthy development of individual family members. Drawing on conceptual and research contributions from the field of family therapy and the social sciences, this article presents recent developments in our understanding of normal family processes and the patterns that distinguish well-functioning families from dysfunctional ones. Emerging research findings are synthesized in an integrative framework that specifies key components of family functioning in three domains: organizational patterns, communication processes, and multigenerational life cycle patterns and belief systems.