Günter Reich | PubMed Health

PubMed2005

[Family relationships and family therapy of eating disorders].

A multitude of empirical studies clearly demonstrates that the origin and course of eating disorders is closely linked to family factors. The influence is exerted in a direct way by conveying attitudes towards food, eating, weight, shape and appearance within the family and in a more indirect way by the family relationships. Families of bulimics differ from those of anorexics by a higher degree of conflict, impulsivity, expressiveness and by lower affective resonance and cohesion. Family therapy has proven to be effective in the treatment of eating disorders. A sketch of a family therapy describes the conflict oriented approach which includes behavioral elements in oder to stabilize the eating behavior and the weight.

Adolescent↗

PubMed2005

[Contemporary family systems--developments, problems, and possibilities].

Contemporary forms of family life and their development are described. The thesis of the pluralism of family types as a historical new phenomenon is critically reviewed, with special consideration of the relationship between family life and working world. An increasing move away from the "fordistic model" of family life took place during the last two decades towards the "multilocal multigenerational family". This development is, among others, due to the increased life expectancy and the change in the population structure. Simultaneous to this the boundaries between family and working world become more permeable. If the stability of employments decreases and the mobility of employees increases in a large scale, is discussed controversely. For an increasing number of families it becomes more and more difficult to make flexibility at work compatible with security for the children or to cope with the consequences of unemployment.

Child↗