Women assessed in the first year after spontaneous abortion show grief characterized by perceived stress and high levels of depressive symptoms including self-blame. Marital or family problems increase emotional risk to a woman after miscarriage.

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This paper describes the "mutual story telling" therapy as it is used to aid the young child Joshua in finding healthy ways of dealing with conflicts that cause disruptions in his home and school life. In this therapeutic process, Joshua's stories illustrate growth in ability to integrate good and bad parts of himself, to acknowledge his own anger and to express it without fear of annihilation; to feel the ego strength necessary to allow him to explore his external world.

This paper demonstrates the particular functions of noise communication in a borderline child and family. Analysis shows noise to have a primary role for the individuals and the family in protecting self, promoting attachment, defending against the experience of emptiness and depletion and communicating lack of attunement. Treatment objectives were to foster the development of a more differentiated and cohesive self for the individuals and the family.

The role of the family home as an attachment object was investigated in 57 preschool age children coping with the stress of a parental divorce. Results indicated that preschool age children of divorce exhibited an increased level of attachment to the family home as compared with children matched for age and socioeconomic status from intact family units who moved away from the family home. In addition, preschool age children who moved from the family home but show a high attachment to it demonstrate better behaviour adjustment than both the groups of children of divorce who showed low attachment after moving from the family home and the group who remained living in the family home after divorce (p less than .05).