title: Family structure and stress.
abstract: This report presents an evolving theoretical model of the relationship between normative and severe stresses and a family's organizational structure. It is useful for understanding these processes and for planning treatment intervention for families at several levels of function: competent, dominant-submissive, chronically conflicted, and severely disturbed.
mesh_terms: D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D004645:Empathy; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008388:Marital Therapy; D008393:Marriage; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*