Cox M J, Paley B
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599-8180, USA.
Annu Rev Psychol. 1997;48:243-67. doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.243.
In this chapter, we discuss theoretical and conceptual models that use an organismic or systems metaphor for understanding families. We suggest that such theories are important for stimulating new research and organizing existing data, and that advances in these theories over the past few decades have expanded the potential for understanding child development, as well as adult adaptation and the development of close relationships. These paradigms follow from models that view development as resulting from the transactional regulatory processes of dynamic systems. Such models are helpful for considering multiple influences on development and adaptation and have implications for the design of effective interventions. We focus on the specifics of systems theories as applied to families, and the research generated by or consistent with these views. Our review is not exhaustive; rather, we intend to give a sense of the direction of this work and its importance for the understanding of development and adaptation.
在本章中，我们将讨论一些理论和概念模型，这些模型运用有机体或系统的隐喻来理解家庭。我们认为，此类理论对于激发新的研究以及整理现有数据非常重要，并且在过去几十年中，这些理论的进展扩大了理解儿童发展、成人适应以及亲密关系发展的可能性。这些范式源自将发展视为动态系统的交互调节过程所产生结果的模型。此类模型有助于考量对发展和适应的多种影响，并对有效干预措施的设计具有启示意义。我们将聚焦于应用于家庭的系统理论的具体内容，以及由这些观点所产生或与之相符的研究。我们的综述并不详尽；相反，我们旨在让读者了解这项工作的方向及其对于理解发展和适应的重要性。
