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Affinographs

A Dynamic Method for Assessment of Individuals, Couples, Families, and Households

Davor Jedlicka (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

112 Seiten

2011
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-9394-6 (ISBN)

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The need for a new method for assessment and imaging of families, couples, and individuals has emerged in response to changes in family forms during the twentieth century. In the twentieth century divorce, remarriage, out-of wedlock child bearing, and alternate life styles have replaced monogamy as predominant form of marriage and the family. The methods of representation and assessment on the other hand remain based on the nineteenth century eugenics models embedded in the modern day genograms. This book is based on the premise that changes in family structure require changes in methods of representation, assessment, research, and teaching. This book introduces such a method in the form of a model named the affinograph. The affinograph provides a method which allows a greater respect for individuals, especially if their relationships contradict the preconceived institutional notions of marriage and the family.

Improvement in visualizing families of various types and complexities can make affinographs an important new method that can bring together the theory, research, and application across varied disciplines that comprise family sciences.

Dr. Jedlicka is licensed marriage and family therapist with a doctorate degree in sociology from the University of Hawaii and a doctorate degree in Marital Therapy from Texas Woman’s University. He has participated in a pioneering NSF study on computer applications in academic settings. His research on the counseling and supervision on the Internet appeared in the Journal of Technology in Counseling, and in Professional Issues in Counseling. He also published in The Journal of Marriage and the Family, Family Relations, Family Science Review, and Journal of Social Psychology, among other journals. His research articles on Globalization of Romance, Computer Dating, International Mate Selection, Social Networks, and Couple Counseling Online, have been widely cited in professional and popular publications.

Introduction: What is an Affinograph?- Why Affinographs?-Constructing Affinographs.- Critical Issues in Protecting Children and Servicing Families.- Patterns of Divorce and Remarriage.- An Affinograph Method of Assessing Same Gender Couples.- Affiars and Ephemeral Relations with Lasting Consequences.- Focused Affinographs in Family Therapy.- Affinology: The Affinograph Method for Genealogy.- Future of the Affinograph.

Zusatzinfo	XIV, 112 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Blended family • Divorce • Family Structure • Family Therapy • Mate selection • Same gender couples
ISBN-10	1-4419-9394-0 / 1441993940
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-9394-6 / 9781441993946
Zustand	Neuware