Humphreys K
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, USA.
Int J Group Psychother. 1996 Apr;46(2):255-63. doi: 10.1080/00207284.1996.11491497.
Although 12-step self-help groups have become extremely popular in U.S. society, clinicians and researchers have devoted little attention to how these groups affect members. This project used naturalistic and qualitative methods to examine the processes through which committed members of self-help groups for adult children of alcoholics experience alterations in their perceptions of family of origin. Results suggest that world view transformation in the family of origin domain involves learning to define the family as pathological, assigning responsibility for this pathology to a disease, forgiving oneself, accepting that one was adversely affected by the family's problem, and ultimately learning to accept one's parents' shortcomings.
尽管12步自助小组在美国社会极为流行，但临床医生和研究人员很少关注这些小组如何影响其成员。本项目采用自然主义和定性研究方法，来考察酗酒者成年子女自助小组的忠实成员在其原生家庭观念上发生转变的过程。结果表明，原生家庭领域的世界观转变包括学会将家庭定义为病态，将这种病态归咎于一种疾病，原谅自己，接受自己受到家庭问题的不利影响，并最终学会接受父母的缺点。
