Beyond the Systems Paradigm Emerging Constructs in Family and Personality Psychology /

• Main Author: L'Abate, Luciano. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology,
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Psychic research.; Developmental psychology.; Consciousness.; Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Psychology Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7444-9

Mother, father, children together in a household. The number of U.S. families fitting that profile is declining steadily. And yet this arrangement is still the basis of so much of family systems theory and therapy--while the disconnect between theory and therapy is widening.� In response, Beyond the...

Table of Contents:

• The Meaning of Constructs
• The Decline and possible Demise of Family� Psychology: Families without Personalities
• The Decline and possible Demise of Personality� Psychology: Personalities without Families
• The (Slow but Sure) Rise of� Attachment Theory,� Communication and Relationship Science
• Relational Competence Theory: Toward a Comprehensive Classification� of Human Relationship
• Conclusion: Identity as an Overarching Construct in Relational Competence Theory.