McHale J P, Fivaz-Depeursinge E
Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA.
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 1999 Jun;2(2):107-27. doi: 10.1023/a:1021847714749.
This paper outlines recent conceptual and methodological developments in the assessment of triadic and family group process during infancy and toddlerhood. Foundations of the emerging family group process are identified, and conditions specific to the assessment of the family during the early phases of family formation are summarized. Both microanalytic and global approaches to evaluating mother-father-child interactions are discussed. We highlight both similarities and differences in the strategies and methods employed by several different investigators who have been studying the group dynamics of families with infant and toddler children, and underscore several important family patterns and emerging themes that appear to be cutting across these different methods and measurement strategies. Preliminary evidence for the validity and clinical significance of family-level assessments is summarized, and directions currently being pursued by researchers engaged in studies of the family triad are outlined. We close by identifying several conceptual and clinical issues that remain to be addressed by subsequent work.
本文概述了婴幼儿期三元组及家庭群体过程评估中近期的概念和方法发展。确定了新兴家庭群体过程的基础，并总结了家庭形成早期阶段家庭评估的特定条件。讨论了评估母婴互动的微观分析和整体方法。我们强调了几位不同研究者在研究有婴幼儿的家庭群体动态时所采用的策略和方法的异同，并强调了几个重要的家庭模式和新出现的主题，这些主题似乎贯穿于这些不同的方法和测量策略之中。总结了家庭层面评估有效性和临床意义的初步证据，并概述了从事家庭三元组研究的研究人员目前正在探索的方向。最后，我们指出了后续工作中仍有待解决的几个概念和临床问题。
