Preventive Psychiatry for the Family: Theory, Approaches, and Programs
WILLIAM M. BOLMAN M.D.1
1 Associate professor of psychiatry in the child psychiatry division, University of Wisconsin Medical School, University of Wisconsin Medical Center, 1300 University Ave., Madison, Wis. 53706
In this paper the author attempts to connect theory, general programmatic approaches, and specific programs related to family-oriented preventive programs in a systematic and meaningful way. His theoretical framework views the family as a flexible social organization—an open system subject to stress from its environment, which includes biologic, intrapsychic, and interpersonal forces as well as sociologic and community levels.
