Introduction. Charting Our Course
Family Problem Solving and Family Interpreting
The Family Construction of the Laboratory
Family Information Processing and Schizophrenia
A Theoretical Sketch of Family Information Processing
Three Measures of Family Information Processing
Schizophrenia and Family Information Processing
Beyond Family Information
Processing: The Family Construes the Laboratory
The Concept of a Shared Construct
A Typology of Shared Constructs Dimensions of Family Constructs
Family Problem Solving and Shared Construing Strategy
One: Comparing
Three Groups of Families Strategy
Two: Direct Assessments of Shared Construing Strategy
Three: Pursuing Significant Alternate Hypotheses
Family Crisis and Family Paradigm
The Role of the Family in Organizing Experience
Personal Explanatory Systems
The Family as Originator of Explanatory
Systems How Prevalent Is the Originative Family?
Crisis and the Development of the Family
Paradigm Outline of a New Model
Family Stress and Disorganization Vulnerability to Stress and Disorganization
Family Reorganization
The Abstraction of the Family Paradigm
The Need for Abstraction The Process of Social Abstraction
The Results of Abstraction Abstraction and Paradigm
The Conservation of the Family Paradigm
The Temporal Patterning of Crisis and Change
The Medium of Conservation Interaction
Behavior in the Conservation of the Family Paradigm
The Specificity of Conservation
The Family's Bond to Its Social World
Orienting Concepts in Family--Environment Organization
The Cycle Hypothesis Components of the Cycle
Hypothesis Links between the Family and Its Social World Organizing
Constructions in the Social
Environment Paradigm, Code, Map, and Objective: Central Correspondences
Family Paradigm, Links, and Environment: A Concluding Example
Exploring the Cycle Hypothesis
The Organizational Objective Short--Term
Links between the Family and the Environment Long--Term
Links between the Family and the Environment
Matching the Cycle Hypothesis and the Findings
Conclusion
A Second Look at Shared Constructs
Notes
References
Index