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Impact of traumatic brain damage on family dynamics and functioning: a review.

The purpose of this paper is to review the dynamics and functioning of families with a severely head-injured member. In order to stress the unique problems faced by persons with brain damage and their families, a comparison with spinal cord-injured individuals is presented. The review's major conclusion is that a head injury exposes the family to a complex of problems that are unique to this disability and, therefore, necessitates the delivery of special family support services focused on the family, rather than on the head-injured person.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1991

Family dynamics and caregiver burden in home health care.

Planning an intervention involves the assessment of medical needs followed by an analysis of the family composition, dynamics, role allocations, coping mechanisms, mode of emotional expression, and the point in the family's developmental sequence. Therapeutic targets should be identified and prioritized. At that point, a behavioral probe or some specific recommendation that the family can easily follow should be made. A careful analysis of the response will indicate the ease with which more difficult change prescriptions can be introduced. Failure of the family to follow even the most simple suggestion may indicate that family therapy is needed. If the family is successful at carrying out the probe suggestion, however, the home health care team can proceed with greater confidence that their efforts will lead to improved patient care and healthy family functioning.

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Sibling incest: a descriptive study of family dynamics.

This study investigates the characteristics of families in which a member was identified as a victim of sibling incest. Four agencies in a southeastern city provided a convenience sample of 14 family case records from November 1986 through April 1988 for review. Sixteen children were identified as victims of sibling incest, including three boys and 13 girls between the ages of 2 and 10 years (mean = 6.75 years). Perpetrators included 1 girl and 14 boys between the ages of 13 and 17 years (mean = 15.06 years). The incestuous relationship had a major impact on families, especially the children. Many offenders and victims, in addition to experiencing emotional, school, and legal problems, were removed from their homes.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1999

Synchronized family dynamics in globally coupled maps.

The dynamics of a globally coupled, logistic map lattice is explored over a parameter plane consisting of the coupling strength, varepsilon, and the map parameter, a. By considering simple periodic orbits of relatively small lattices, and then an extensive set of initial-value calculations, the phenomenology of solutions over the parameter plane is broadly classified. The lattice possesses many stable solutions, except for sufficiently large coupling strengths, where the lattice elements always synchronize, and for small map parameter, where only simple fixed points are found. For smaller varepsilon and larger a, there is a portion of the parameter plane in which chaotic, asynchronous lattices are found. Over much of the parameter plane, lattices converge to states in which the maps are partitioned into a number of synchronized families. The dynamics and stability of two-family states (solutions partitioned into two families) are explored in detail. (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1995

Sisters, siblings, and mothers: the effect of teen-age childbearing on birth outcomes in a dynamic family context.

"In this paper, we formulate a statistical model of dynamic intrafamily investment behavior incorporating endowment heterogeneity and heritability. We use the model's estimates to evaluate alternative estimation procedures that have exploited family and kinship data to obtain estimates of the determinants of human capital." The sequential decision-making framework developed is applied to data on birthweight and gestation of children born to mothers surveyed in the U.S. National Survey of Labor Market Experience youth cohort. "The empirical results imply that the least restrictive statistical formulation, consistent with dynamic behavior and heterogeneity among siblings, fits the data best. All of the estimation procedures that control for a family-specific endowment indicate, however, that the biological effect of having a birth at younger ages is to marginally increase birthweight and to increase fetal growth."

Age Factors↗
PubMed1991

Supportive psycho-educational intervention for schizophrenics' families: influencing family dynamics.

I conducted supportive psycho-educational intervention for the families of schizophrenics, mainly to the mothers, and investigated the influence on the patients' mode of treatment and their symptoms 9 months later. In accordance with Motooka, the mothers were classified into the three categories of narcissistic type, symbiotic type and dependent type. The influence of the interventions varied with the difference in types. Only the patients whose mothers belong to the dependent type showed a significant improvement 9 months after the interventions. From these results I consider that the narcissistic type cases need to be given psychotherapeutic family intervention from the early stage of treatment, while symbiotic type cases need supportive psycho-educational intervention in the presence of both parents and dependent type cases merit supportive psycho-educational interventions to the mothers.

Adolescent↗