- Introduction. Charting Our Course
- I. Family Problem Solving and Family Interpreting
- 1. The Family Construction of the Laboratory
- Family Information Processing and Schizophrenia
- A Theoretical Sketch of Family Information Processing
- Three Measures of Family Information Processing
- Schizophrenia and Family Information Processing
- Beyond Family Information Processing: The Family Construes the Laboratory
- The Concept of a Shared Construct
- A Typology of Shared Constructs
- Dimensions of Family Constructs
- 2. Family Problem Solving and Shared Construing
- Strategy One: Comparing Three Groups of Families
- Strategy Two: Direct Assessments of Shared Construing
- Strategy Three: Pursuing Significant Alternate Hypotheses
- 1. The Family Construction of the Laboratory
- II. Family Crisis and Family Paradigm
- 3. The Role of the Family in Organizing Experience
- Personal Explanatory Systems
- The Family as Originator of Explanatory Systems
- How Prevalent Is the Originative Family?
- 4. Crisis and the Development of the Family Paradigm
- Outline of a New Model
- Family Stress and Disorganization
- Vulnerability to Stress and Disorganization
- Family Reorganization
- 5. The Abstraction of the Family Paradigm
- The Need for Abstraction
- The Process of Social Abstraction
- The Results of Abstraction
- Abstraction and Paradigm
- 6. The Conservation of the Family Paradigm
- The Temporal Patterning of Crisis and Change
- The Medium of Conservation
- Interaction Behavior in the Conservation of the Family Paradigm
- The Specificity of Conservation
- 3. The Role of the Family in Organizing Experience
- III. The Family’s Bond to Its Social World
- 7. Orienting Concepts in Family-Environment Organization
- The Cycle Hypothesis
- Components of the Cycle Hypothesis
- Links between the Family and Its Social World
- Organizing Constructions in the Social Environment
- Paradigm, Code, Map, and Objective: Central Correspondences
- Family Paradigm, Links, and Environment: A Concluding Example
- 8. Exploring the Cycle Hypothesis
- The Organizational Objective
- Short-Term Links between the Family and the Environment
- Long-Term Links between the Family and the Environment
- Matching the Cycle Hypothesis and the Findings
- 7. Orienting Concepts in Family-Environment Organization
- Conclusion. A Second Look at Shared Constructs
- Notes
- References
- Index


The Family’s Construction of Reality
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ISBN 9780674294165
Publication Date: 01/01/1987