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Anna Siewierska

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PubMed2002

[Family assessment measures by Manfred Cierpka].

In the first part of the paper, authors describe some research tools for the assessment of family functioning, concentrating mainly on self-report questionnaires of the family members. Advantages and methodological limitations of such methods are discussed. Several questionnaires of self-report type are described such as e.g. the Family APGAR, Family Environment Scale, Mc Master Family Assessment Device, as well as Family Assessment Measure (FAM) of Skinner and Steinhauer. Manfred Cierpka Family Assessment Measures are a modification of this last questionnaire. In the second part of the paper authors present in details Cierpka Family Assessment Measures. They describe seven dimensions of the family functioning such as task accomplishment, role performance, communication, emotionality, affective involvement, control and values and norms. Family Assessment Measures consist of three questionnaires such as General Scale, Dyadic Scale and of Self-Rating Scale. General Scale focuses on how individual member views the family as a whole, The Dyadic Scale assesses specific relationship dyads within the family and Self-Rating Scale addresses how an individual member views his or her functioning within the family. At the end, psychometric properties of these questionnaires are presented, as well as the general description, how they should be used in the process of the assessment of the family for research and in clinical practice of family therapy.

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[Eating disorder prevention program--pilot study].

AIM: Recent research has suggested that school-based programmes of prevention of eating disorders obtained ambiguous results. The aim of our work was to establish the efficacy of the eating disorders prevention programme for schoolgirls of secondary schools. METHOD: Subjects in the experimental groups received 8 sessions of practice with various tasks, while the control group did not participate in sessions of psychoeducation. Overall, we examined 109 adolescents participating in sessions and 117 adolescents in the control group. Participants were examined at the beginning of the programme, after the operation and 6 months later. Assessment was made with EDI, EAT-26. RESULTS: Assessment before and after the study phase showed that participants in the experimental groups had not made significantly more improvement than the control group. It was also shown that in the two subgroups (girls form technical college and girls form college) there were significant differences in the pre-test, post-test and follow-up results. CONCLUSIONS: Similarities that were obtained through the research suggest the necessity of examining other possible relationships between chosen variables. Analysis of participants' feedback information emphasises that the changes the programme brought appeared feasible in the social functioning area (with peers, parents relations). It is not excluded that it is too late for eating disorder prophylaxis in the phase of personal development, as some researchers argue. Differences in results between schoolgirls from college and from technical college suggest some differences in risk and protective factors. It seems important to verify this.

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[Prevention of eating disorders in children and adolescents. Part II. The effectiveness of prevention programs].

This paper presents various models of child and adolescent prevention programmes of eating disorders with the emphasis on the efficiency of these models. On the ground of the available literature, the authors present the results of these methods. It seems that in every prevention programme risk and protective factors, which are connected with the given intervention should be precisely defined. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that the programmes should be clear with better inner coherence which will consequently result in better efficiency.

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[Parental and peer attachment of hospitalized adolescent patients--pilot study].

AIM: In the context of Bowlby's theory of attachment authors made an attempt to assess parental and peer attachment in different clinical subgroups of hospitalised adolescents. METHOD: 142 patients--58 with the diagnosis of neurotic disorders, 49 eating disorders and 35 patients with schizophrenic disorders, as well 34 untreated, healthy adolescents were assessed by The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment by Armsden and Greenberg. RESULTS: The group of schizophrenic patients was characterised by disturbed attachment with peers and normal attachment with parents.Two other diagnostic subgroups, neurotic and eating disorders were similar as far as nature of attachment was concerned. The attachment was disturbed both with parents and peers, but the level of alienation in relations with peers in the group of eating disorder patients was similar to the level in the group of schizophrenic patients. This conclusion allows us to put the group of eating disorders closer to the group of schizophrenic, than neurotic patients, as far as attachment is concerned. CONCLUSIONS: The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, used for the first time in Poland, can be seen as a promising instrument in assessing three dimensions of attachment: communication, trust and alienation in relations with parents and peers.

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