How do we approach the psychological study of family

Journal/Book: Stud Psychol. 1996; 38: Dubravska Cesta 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Slovak Acad Sciences Inst Experimental Psychology. 121-130.

Abstract: The considerable expansion of psychological research dealing with family problems and the efforts to concentrate this research under the name of Family Psychology leads to questions about the state of the research in this field. The article is based on a sketch of the aims of family psychology and concentrates chiefly on three problems which need to be clarified if the greatly dispersed research is to reveal findings which could be considered as psychological knowledge in this field and which could be used as a base for theories and further research. It involves a) the problem of stating the basic questions for psychological research of family, b) problem of defining basic terms: family and healthy/functional family and c) methodological problem of research approach. The article is written ina framework of the problems concerning responsibility of scientists and thus it is critical toward the lack of attention paid to these problems in many studies and fundamental methodological bases.

Note: Article V Kovalikova, Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Expt Psychol, Dubravska Cesta 9, Bratislava 81364, Slovakia

Keyword(s): family psychology; family research; family therapy; systems theory research; methodological approaches; psychological finding; psychological knowledge

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