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The Family as a Small Group

The Process Model of Family Functioning

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Family Interaction and Psychopathology

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Abstract

Two separate and largely unrelated streams of literature can emerge whenever several professional disciplines, each acting in isolation from the other, study a common clinical phenomenon from their own perspective and then proceed to communicate with their own colleagues via their own journals. Such was the case in the study of juvenile delinquency, where a self-report literature described a high incidence of mild and occasional antisocial behaviors. This contrasts markedly with studies of adjudicated delinquents, whose antisocial activities are more serious and more frequent and continue over a long period of time (Williams & Gold, 1972).

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