Citation

Steinglass P, Tislenko L, Reiss D. Fam. Process 1985; 24(3): 365-383.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

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PMID

4043353

Abstract

Thirty-one alcoholic families who were originally studied in home, multiple-family group, and laboratory settings were reassessed two years later to determine course of alcoholism and degree of marital stability. This paper presents data comparing baseline alcohol consumption and family interactional behavior at home with subsequent alcoholism and marital stability outcomes. Findings suggest that the relative degree of stability/instability in these marriages is best understood as a function of the "goodness-of-fit" between the relative predictability of drinking on the part of the identified alcoholic and the family's characteristic pattern of interactional behavior at home.

Language: en