Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr.; Preface by Frances L. Beatman and Sanford N. Sherman; Introduction: The Family's Kinship Environment; Family Diagnosis; Environmental Diagnosis of the Family; Interchanges Between the Family and Its Environment; The Research Focus on Kinship; Choices of Research Strategy; Part One: The Problem and Sitting; Chapter 1. Kinship Concepts; Kinship Systems; Kinship and Society; Kinship, Family, and Personality; Chapter 2. The Agency and the Clients; The Agency Setting; Presenting Problems of Client Families; Sociocultural Background of Client Families
  • Part Two: The Kin Relationships of Client FamiliesChapter 3. The Kinship Values of Client Families; Content of Kinship Values; Values and Kinship Positions; Chapter 4. The Network of Kin Relationships; The Extensiveness of Kin Ties; The Omnipresence of Kin: Proximity and Communications; The Binding Power of Assistance and Reciprocity; Chapter 5. Kin Groups and Assemblages; Ad Hoc Kin Assemblages; Family-Kin Businesses; Family Circles and Cousins Clubs; Chapter 6. Kin Conflicts and Kinship Structure; The Positive Impact of Kin on the Family; Levels of Conflicts with Kin
  • Regularities in Kin RelationshipsRegularities in Conflicts with Kin; Part Three: Casework Intervention and Kinship Structure; Chapter 7. Casework Intervention in Relationships with Kin; Problems Brought Up in Casework Treatment; Forms of Intervention; Client Perceptions of Intervention; Chapter 8. Caseworkers and Clients: Contrasting Kinship Values and Experience; Comparison of Kinship Values; Comparison of Kin Relationships; Comparison of Conflicts with Kin; Therapeutic Relationships and Kinship Differences; Chapter 9. The Dynamics of Change in Kinship Systems: Implications for Casework
  • Intervention, Interaction, and ConflictSociety and Intervention in Kin Relationships; Therapeutic Strategies; Epilogue: A Note on the Process and Application of Research in a Practice Setting; Who Formulates the Research Problem; Who Collects Research Data; When and How Research is Applied to Practice; Appendix: Research Methods; Bibliography; Index