Two Methods of Analysis of Family Diagnostic Data

Indicators of Therapeutic Outcome in Conjoint Family Therapy

“…He had demonstrated that American families asking for psychiatric help show greater inequality in the participation of their members in family discussion than do families who have not sought psychiatric help. Drechsler & Shapiro (1) have demonstrated that patterns of interaction are related to clinically observable family psychopathology.…”

Multiple impact therapy : evaluation and design for future study

“…Two important criteria, relevance and standardization, are often viewed as competing in the design of observational methods (Drechsler & Shapiro, 1963;Haley, 1964;Levinger, 1963;Rabkin, 1965). Relevance means that the observational situation is either a natural one, such as in the family's home (O'Rourke, 1963), or a laboratory situation conceptually similar to a naturally occurring one (Strauss, 1970).…”

“…Thus, researchers and clinicians began to structure the observational situation more, using a structured interview in which families were asked the same questions in the same manner (Jackson, 1963;Olson, 1968;Riskin, 1964;Riskin & Faunce, 1970;Sojit, 1969), using a family task in which members were given a verbal task (Elbert, Rosman, Minuchin, & Guerney, 1964;Goodrich & Boomer, 1963;Loveland, Wynne, & Singer, 1963) or a largely nonverbal task, such as playing (Moustakas, Sigel, & Schalock, 1956;Schulman, Shoemaker, & Moelis, 1962), or using a combination of these methods (Addario & Rodgers, 1974;Drechsler & Shapiro, 1963;Ferreira, Winter, & Poindexter, 1966).…”

“…The rationale for using only a part of the interview is the belief that a few minutes of a family's interaction will reveal their style of communication (Riskin, 23 1964;Riskin & Faunce, 1970). Others have used semi-structured interviews to assess families requesting service (Drechsler & Shapiro, 1963;Tyler, Truumaa, & Henshaw, 1962). These interviews consist of asking the.…”

Short‐Term Stability of Task‐Generated, Interactional Patterns in Families of Schizophrenic Patients

“…Specifically, it was noted that low communication deviance (CD) families were more often father‐central than were high‐CD families. Additionally, Dreschler and Shapiro (1963) coded the frequency of who speaks to whom during distressed families' conversations about various innocuous topics. They reported that families who resembled each other clinically had similar distributions of family conversation.…”