A family assessment based on the Social Relations Model |
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| Authors: | Jan De Mol Ann Buysse William L. Cook |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Family therapist and post‐doctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.;2. Professor, Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.;3. Associate Director of Research of the Department of Psychiatry, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA. |
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| Abstract: | One purpose of family assessment is to formulate hypotheses that can guide clinical interventions. Family assessment is based on models about family functioning. In this paper the Social Relations Model ( Kenny and La Voie, 1984 ; SRM) is presented as such a model about family dynamics. Moreover, SRM provides statistical tools to underpin empirical hypotheses about family functioning. An SRM family assessment of a family with a child in child psychiatric care exemplifies the possibilities and limitations of this SRM approach to family assessment. The subject of the family assessment is family members' sense of influence in their family relationships. |
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| Keywords: | assessment evidence‐based practice social relations model |
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