COHESION IN FAMILIES WITH AFFECTIVELY ILL AND WELL PARENTS

家庭关系既可以作为保护性因素，也可以作为风险因素。 在孩子的成长过程中。在有父母情感疾病的家庭中， 家庭的特殊长处和短处可以在 儿童与其环境的交流，从而最大限度地或 把孩子身上的问题降到最低。家庭功能的评估使用 家庭系统测试，其中家庭关系用来描述 网格覆盖的黑板上的图形：(A)从两个人的角度来看 兄弟姐妹和(B)在家庭中形成共识的观点 会员。“亲密度”、“方向性”和“力量”由以下因素决定 图形之间的距离、图形的方向性、面和 每个图下面的“电源模块”的数量和观察者 评级是根据家庭成员在一起工作时的行为做出的 构建共识陈述。收视率集中在行为上 与家庭作为一个单位的能力和功能障碍有关， 家庭内部的二元体，以及家庭成员的个体。这个 儿童对家庭关系和家庭质量的认知 而个体的功能将从发育角度进行检查， 纳入本研究所属的更大项目的措施 一部份。

Family relationships can function as protective as well as risk factors in children's development. In families with parental affective illness, the particular strengths and weaknesses of the family can mediate in the child's exchanges with his/her environment and, thus, maximize or minimize problems in the child. Family functioning is assessed using the Family Systems Test in which family relationships are depicted with figures on a grid-covered board: (a) from the perspective of each of two siblings and (b) from a perspective formed in consensus among family members. "Closeness", "orientation", and "power" are determined by distance between figures, directionality of the figures, faces, and number of "power blocks" under each figure, respectively, and observer ratings are made of family members' behavior while they work together constructing consensus representations. The ratings focus on behavior relevant to competencies and dysfunctions of the family as a unit, of the dyads within the family, and of individual family members. The children's perceptions of family relationships and qualities of family and individual functioning will be examined developmentally, incorporating measures from the larger project of which this study is a part.