title: Application of the social relations model to family assessment.
abstract: A family assessment serves two primary purposes: the guidance of clinical interventions and the evaluation of clinical outcomes. To support these activities, a family assessment should provide a level of descriptive detail with respect to family functioning that is commensurate with a family systems perspective. Unfortunately, most widely used self-report family assessment instruments do not provide that level of detail. This article presents a descriptive approach to family assessment that is based on the application of the social relations model (SRM; D. A. Kenny & L. La Voie, 1984) to round-robin family data. In contrast to previous presentations of the SRM, this article outlines the procedure for assessing a single family, thus translating SRM analysis from a basic research tool into an applied, clinical assessment tool.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Maine Medical Center, Portland, 04102, USA. cookw@mmc.org
authors.forename: William L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kenny
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009341:Negativism; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012919:Social Behavior