Family psychology / by Sedrak Sedrakyan, Ph.D.

Includes abridged dictionary of a family psychology (pages 460-509).

Contents: Introduction -- Family as an object of roles theory -- Investigation -- Issues of family social-psychological investigation -- Roles theory and role approach to family problems -- Social-psychological system of family -- Historic development of family types and family roles -- Formation and development phases of contemporary nuclear family -- Main mechanisms of familial socialization -- Sociometry and familial status-role relations -- Family and society -- Family conflicts : the essence and the ways of overcoming them -- Conflicts and roles -- Inter-familial adaptation and conflict -- Inter-familial adaptation and family formation -- Family conflict and crisis -- Compromise and familial conflicts -- Divorce and its consequences -- Healthy and unhealthy families.