Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:1246-1251
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
A psychosocial kinship model for family therapy
EM Pattison, D Defrancisco, P Wood, H Frazier and J Crowder
Family therapy has traditionally centered on the nuclear family and thus
has been typically oriented toward urban white middle-class families. A
variety of modifications in therapeutic technique has evolved for work with
the many modern families whose structure consists of a functional
psychosocial family kinship. The authors have developed a formal
theoretical framework and model for family therapy that encompasses the
total psychosocial network, i.e., the extended kinships of the nuclear
family and the functional kin such as friends, neighbors, and associates.
