Maintaining a Family Focus: Utilizing Attachment Theory and the Family Systems Illness Model

2016 ◽  
pp. 19-28
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
The Family ◽  
Illness Model ◽  
Family Focus

Attachment Styles and the Family Systems of Individuals Affected by Substance Abuse

2020 ◽  
pp. 106648072093448
Author(s):  
Everette Coffman ◽  
Jacqueline Swank
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Family System ◽  
Treatment Approach ◽  
The Family

This article focuses on the association between attachment styles within the family system and substance abuse. The authors describe attachment theory and the ways insecure attachments adversely affect the families of individuals with substance abuse concerns. Additionally, they discuss the need for attachment-informed approaches to treat these families and key components of this treatment approach.

Integrating Systems Theory and Attachment Theory: The Use of Radio Communication to Modify Attachments in a Patient with Psychogenic Vomiting*

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 595-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dickman ◽  
Pablo Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Radio Communication ◽  
Peer Socialization ◽  
East Indian ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
Patterns Of Relating ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother And Child

A case is presented that shows the usefulness of integrating systems theory and attachment theory in the formulation and treatment of a clinical problem. The 5 year old son of East Indian immigrants presented with persistent psychogenic vomiting associated with pathological family attachments. It was evident that the precarious family equilibrium was stabilized by the child's psychogenic vomiting. The therapeutic team suggested to the family that their problems might be more satisfactorily resolved if the mother and child maintained their link by two-way radio. Three weeks later the vomiting had ceased, the child no longer felt that he needed the radio and both parents had established new patterns of relating to their child, whose attendance and peer socialization at school showed marked improvement. To some extent the rapid resolution of the problems was facilitated by the cultural strengths of the family.

Characteristics of the family system in a nineteenth-century northern-Russian peasant community

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-239
Author(s):  
MATTI POLLA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Family System ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Family ◽  
Peasant Community ◽  
Northern Russia

The family system prevailing among a small ethnic group towards the end of the pre-industrial era is examined on the basis of data from a parish in Northern Russia. Identification of the factors shaping this system is facilitated by a comparison with descriptions of ethnic Russian family systems in Southern and Central European Russia, which have been studied more extensively. The characteristics of the family system in the community described here conform most closely to the latter. Since little microstructural research has been done on Northern Russia, the data presented here will serve as an example of the development of the family system in the region in the nineteenth century.

Mapping the Family System: A Technique for Teaching Family Systems Theory Concepts

1982 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy V. Wedemeyer ◽  
Harold D. Grotevant
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Systems Theory ◽  
System A ◽  
The Family

Clinical Implications of the Family Systems Model

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Shmukler ◽  
Merle Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Family Systems ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
The Family
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