Family Microtransitions: Observing the Process of Change in Families with Adolescent Children

Molinari, Luisa; Everri, Marina; Fruggeri, Laura

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01320.x

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“…Everyday family life is conducted in the context of the home and across geographically dispersed spaces, making it logistically difficult for scholars to perform observational studies. Dyad/group interviews are one way for researchers to view family interactions, dynamics, and communication (Allan, 1980;Braun, Mura, Peter-Wight, Hornung, & Scholz, 2010;LaRossa, 1977;Molinari, Everri, & Fruggeri, 2010;Morris, 2001;Stacey, 1998). For example, (post)positivists may conduct joint interviews to observe the objective reality of family dynamics.…”

Section: Observation Of Family Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conducting a Multi Family Member Interview Study

2014

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Family researchers have long recognized the utility of incorporating interview data from multiple family members. Yet, relatively few contemporary scholars utilize such an approach due to methodological underdevelopment. This article contributes to family scholarship by providing a roadmap for developing and executing in-depth interview studies that include more than one family member. Specifically, it outlines the epistemological frames that most commonly underlie this approach, illustrates thematic research questions that it best addresses, and critically reviews the best methodological practices of conducting research with this approach. The three most common approaches are addressed in depth: separate interviews with each family member, dyadic or group interviews with multiple family members, and a combined approach that uses separate and dyadic or group interviews. This article speaks to family scholars who are at the beginning stages of their research project but are unsure of the best qualitative approach to answer a given research question.

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Section: Observation Of Family Dynamicsmentioning

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“…Because the participation of family members, particularly of parents, is associated with better outcomes in family interventions, spaces should be created for dyadic, triadic, and full family participation, so that all members are involved in assessing and resolving the problem; this approach avoids placing the focus on a "problem child" or on the mothers who, generally, are more willing to participate (Molinari et al, 2010). Our results also show that the child is less likely to attend sessions when the mother is at the precontemplation stage, with the resulting increased risk of dropout.…”

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“…that are present in family conflicts (Benbassat & Priel, 2015;Fonagy & Target, 1997;Lebow & Rekart, 2007). As will be seen later, it is essential that the family members understand that their difficulties and conflicts have a relational basis and that change will be a result of modifying or regulating their relationships in order to reduce guilt, repair fractures, and promote the experience of synchrony and of sharing the meaning of what they are going through (Fearon et al, 2006;Molinari, Everri, & Fruggeri, 2010;Small, Jackson, Gopalan, & McKay, 2015;Tuttle, Knudson-Martin, & Kim, 2012).…”

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Stages of change and engagement in a family intervention

Castillo-Garayoa

Montes‐Vallecillos

Perales‐Echeverría

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Child & Family Social Work

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Prochaska and DiClemente's stages of change model facilitate understanding of engagement difficulties in psychosocial intervention processes. We assessed the link between stages of family change and intervention dropout in a sample of 141 families with relational conflicts between parents and adolescent children. Each family member's stage of change was defined according to three criteria: seeing the conflict as a relational problem, assuming part of the responsibility for the dysfunctional relationship, and understanding one's own mental and emotional states and those of the other family members involved in the conflict (mentalization). Our dropout rate for the sample was 41.8% and was higher for immigrant families. We found a strong association between engagement and the contemplation stage of change, particularly the mother's. In family conflict interventions, participation of all the family members is essential so as raise awareness of the relational aspects of the conflict and the shared responsibility for the conflict and its resolution.

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“…The notion of family efficiency has shown to be important in order to shed light on the interactional processes displayed by family members when they face critical situations, as is frequent during adolescence (Molinari et al, 2010).…”

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Family Problem-Solving: How Do Families With Adolescents Make Decisions?

Molinari

Everri

2012

IJCYFS

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Abstract:In the present study, we adopt an observational method for the analysis of family members' interactions during a problem-solving task. The specific focus of our work is to put the family as a whole beneath the lens of observation, as well as to analyze how the parents and the adolescent separately contribute to the task solution. Twentyeight non-clinical families with adolescents (13 to 16 years old) were filmed in their homes during a problem-solving task. Family interactions were analyzed according to four observational measures: family efficiency, family communication, family climate, and family participation. Three different patterns of family decision-making are described: families that control (high efficiency, calm family climate, collaborative participation), families that surrender (low efficiency, tense family climate, individual participation), and families that struggle (intermediate efficiency, serious family climate, alternated participation). Theoretical and practical implications in terms of everyday ways of dealing with problems in families with adolescents are discussed.

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Family Microtransitions: Observing the Process of Change in Families with Adolescent Children

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Conducting a Multi Family Member Interview Study

Conducting a Multi Family Member Interview Study

Stages of change and engagement in a family intervention

Family Problem-Solving: How Do Families With Adolescents Make Decisions?

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