Closure (which "refers to the family's proclivity for suspending or applying order and coherent concepts to raw sensory experience", ).īy crossing these variables we could possibly obtaing eight different types of families, but the authors investigate only four possible configurations, thus dividing families on the basis of their shared construing of the laboratory experience:.Coordination (which "refers to family member's ability and willingness to develop problem solutions similar to each others", ).Configuration (ability to grasp the complexity of patterns underlying in the environment, going from "subtle, detailed or highly structured" to "coarse, simple or chaotic" ).The types of constructs the family forms are directly derived from the interaction of three polar variables: Reiss states that shared construing always happens, and follows very specific interaction patterns, that the family has carefully but subconsciously created throughout its life. The preliminary studies showed that families, when given tasks that dealt with gathering, interpreting and communicating information, differed one another in very specific ways, that could be interpreted as an extension, to the family as a whole, of George Kelly's concept of personal construct, thus becoming shared constructs. Thus, three different types of families were subjected to numerous experiments: families without any psychopathological diagnosis, families with offspring (aging 12 to 30) that had characterial disorders, and families with offspring that had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. His research started off as a way to investigate whether some aspects of family life had influences over the development of schizophrenia in the offspring of the family. The term Family Paradigm is used by the author to define a set of shared beliefs and views that every family has, even though they are mainly present at a subliminal level.
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