Recently added articles from Family Process:
Families After Death, Families After Birth
Dec 01, 2008; ... This past summer, I visited the Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure in France. Archeologists deem these caves to hold traces of prehistoric people from more than 200,000 years. The cave walls are decorated with paintings from 33,000 years ago. I felt a profound sense of human development across time, as I ...
The Last Will and Testament in Literature: Rupture, Rivalry, and Sometimes Rapprochement from Middlemarch to Lemony Snicket
Dec 01, 2008; ... Although the psychological literature on the last will and testament is sparse, authors of fiction and memoir have filled the gap, writing in rich detail about the impact of wills on families. Henry James, George Eliot, J. R. Ackerley, and others reveal that a will is not only a legal document ...
Thoughts on the Importance of Wills in Family Relationships: A Clinical Response to Elizabeth Stone
Dec 01, 2008; ... Elizabeth Stone's paper brings to the fore an important issue that has been much neglected clinically-the messages that we leave in our wills for those who outlive us. This is indeed a major issue in family relationships and can ripple down the generations leading to cutoffs and conflicts for ...
Synchrony in the Triad: A Microlevel Process Model of Coparenting and Parent-Child Interactions
Dec 01, 2008; ... Guided by a microanalytic approach to the study of relationships, we assessed parent, infant, and coparental behaviors during triadic interactions in 94 parents and their 5-month-old firstborn child. Relational behaviors in each family subsystem-mother-infant, father-infant, and coparenting-were ...
New Evidence for the Social Embeddedness of Infants' Early Triangular Capacities
Dec 01, 2008; ... Infants appear to be active participants in complex interactional sequences with their parents far earlier than previously theorized. In this report, we document the capacity of 3-month-old infants to share attention with two partners (mothers and fathers) simultaneously, and trace links between ...
Withdrawal From Coparenting Interactions During Early Infancy
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study examines early withdrawal in the coparenting system, and the utility of a brief problem-solving discussion about coparenting responsibilities as a means for evaluating such withdrawal. One hundred and fifteen couples were evaluated both prenatally and at 3 months postpartum. During ...
Parent Characteristics as Antecedents of Maternal Gatekeeping and Fathering Behavior
Dec 01, 2008; ... The present study examined the role of prebirth parent characteristics as predictors of maternal gatekeeping (mothers' attempts to encourage or discourage fathers' interaction with their infant) and fathering behavior. Parents' idealization of their relationships within their families of origin, ...
Gaining Ground from a Family and Cultural Legacy: A Teen Mother's Story of Repairing the World
Dec 01, 2008; ... A multigenerational longitudinal study of teen mothering provided prospective data on the intergenerational continuities and discontinuities in parenting traditions and caregiving legacies. Families that included a teen mother were first interviewed intensively in 1988-1989 and were ...
Family Secrets and Family Functioning: The Case of Donor Assistance
Dec 01, 2008; ... The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adult offspring's perception of family functioning and of parental use of topic avoidance to maintain secrecy regarding the use of donor assistance to conceive. A cross-sectional design was used to study a convenience sample of 69 ...
Individual Resiliency Factors from a Genetic Perspective: Results from a Twin Study
Dec 01, 2008; ... This article is part of the Twin Mother's Study, a study that examines influences on maternal adjustment. A number of studies have investigated the importance of genetic factors for mental health, but few of these examine how genes and the environment influence resiliency/salutogenic factors ....
Erratum: Correction to "An Exploration of Lived Religion in Same-Sex Couples from Judeo-Christian Traditions"
Dec 01, 2008; ... Article originally published in Family Process, Volume 47, Number 3, September 2008. In the originally published article, the article titled "An Exploratory Study of Religiosity and Same-Sex Couple Relationships" was incorrectly cited, both in-text (p. 390) and in the References section ....
Incarceration and Family Relationships: A Call for Systemic Responses
Sep 01, 2008; ... Fam Proc 47:277-279, 2008 Rosa came to see me for family therapy, bringing her 11-year-old daughter, Maria, who was suddenly refusing to go to school and lying to her mother. Before I could even begin to get initial family information, Rosa broke in to tears and exclaimed, "My daughter ...
Factorial and Construct Validity of the Revised Short Form Integrative Psychotherapy Alliance Scales for Family, Couple, and Individual Therapy
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Integrative Psychotherapy Alliance model brought an interpersonal and systemic perspective to bear on theory, research, and practice on the psychotherapeutic alliance. Questions have been raised about the independence of the theoretical factors in the model and their operationalization in ...
"Motherhood Starts in Prison": The Experience of Motherhood Among Women in Prison
Sep 01, 2008; ... This study aims to explore the way in which women prisoners in Israel experience motherhood in prison and construct their motherhood after being released. In-depth interviews were conducted with 9 women, and the data were analyzed according to the phenomenological approach. The qualitative ...
Maternal Distress and Women's Reentry into Family and Community Life
Sep 01, 2008; ... This paper advances conceptualization of maternal distress following incarceration. We utilized a multiple case study methodology based on interviews with 10 mothers who demonstrated various permutations of "the triple threat" (depression, domestic violence, and substance abuse; Arditti & ...
PREP Inside and Out: Marriage Education for Inmates
Sep 01, 2008; ... Although research has demonstrated that marriage education has positive effects on relationship quality, little is known about how such services impact relationships where one partner is incarcerated. The current study implemented an adapted version of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement ...
Learning From the Past, Altering the Future: A Tentative Theory of the Effect of Past Relationships on Couples Who Remarry
Sep 01, 2008; ... Using grounded theory methodology 16 participants, each in a second marriage as a result of divorce, were interviewed individually and with their partner. Participants were asked to describe how their first marriages were currently affecting their second. Trust was the central category that ...
Involving Caregiving Grandmothers in Family Interventions when Mothers with Substance Use Problems are Incarcerated
Sep 01, 2008; ... The alarming rate of incarceration of women disproportionately affects women of color, frequently intersects with the women's substance use problems, and often results in grandmothers providing care for their grandchildren during their daughters' incarceration. Numerous factors complicate the ...
An Exploration of Lived Religion in Same-Sex Couples from Judeo-Christian Traditions
Sep 01, 2008; ... Religious involvement has been found to be associated with higher levels of commitment and relationship satisfaction among heterosexually married individuals (Mahoney et al., 1999). Little is known, however, about the religiosity of gay, lesbian, bisexual (GLB) individuals, and virtually nothing ...
How do Hostile and Emotionally Overinvolved Relatives View Relationships?: What Relatives' Pronoun Use Tells Us
Sep 01, 2008; ... Expressed emotion (EE) has been linked to negative outcomes for a variety of psychiatric illnesses. Despite development of effective interventions to reduce EE, relatively little is known about EE's antecedents or maintaining factors. The present study uses a novel methodology (measurement of ...