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- Provides a model that uses relationships not individuals as fundamental units of analysis
- Links individual experience with theoretical and pedagogical models
- Presents a heuristic device for twenty-first century families
- Examines the full scope of relationships, from short-term to life-long
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The need for a new method for assessment and imaging of families, couples, and individuals has emerged in response to changes in family forms during the twentieth century. In the twentieth century divorce, remarriage, out-of wedlock child bearing, and alternate life styles have replaced monogamy as predominant form of marriage and the family. The methods of representation and assessment on the other hand remain based on the nineteenth century eugenics models embedded in the modern day genograms. This book is based on the premise that changes in family structure require changes in methods of representation, assessment, research, and teaching. This book introduces such a method in the form of a model named the affinograph. The affinograph provides a method which allows a greater respect for individuals, especially if their relationships contradict the preconceived institutional notions of marriage and the family.
Improvement in visualizing families of various types and complexities can make affinographs an important new method that can bring together the theory, research, and application across varied disciplines that comprise family sciences.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Tyler, Tyler, USA
Davor Jedlicka
About the author
Dr. Jedlicka is licensed marriage and family therapist with a doctorate degree in sociology from the University of Hawaii and a doctorate degree in Marital Therapy from Texas Woman’s University. He has participated in a pioneering NSF study on computer applications in academic settings. His research on the counseling and supervision on the Internet appeared in the Journal of Technology in Counseling, and in Professional Issues in Counseling. He also published in The Journal of Marriage and the Family, Family Relations, Family Science Review, and Journal of Social Psychology, among other journals. His research articles on Globalization of Romance, Computer Dating, International Mate Selection, Social Networks, and Couple Counseling Online, have been widely cited in professional and popular publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affinographs
Book Subtitle: A Dynamic Method for Assessment of Individuals, Couples, Families, and Households
Authors: Davor Jedlicka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9395-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-9394-6
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9531-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9395-3
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 112
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Work, Psychotherapy