Application of the social relations model to family assessment.
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.
Cook
William L
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Department of Psychiatry, Maine Medical Center, Portland, 04102, USA. cookw@mmc.org
Kenny
David A
DA
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