A confirmative clinimetric analysis of the 36-item Family Assessment Device.

Background: The Family Assessment Device (FAD) is a 60-item questionnaire widely used to evaluate self-reported family functioning. However, the factor structure as well as the number of items has been questioned. A shorter and more user-friendly version of the original FAD-scale, the 36-item FAD, has therefore previously been proposed, based on findings in a nonclinical population of adults.

Implementation of preventive mental health services for children of physically ill parents: experiences in seven European countries and health care systems.

Objective: Parental physical disease is a family issue, but families' minor children are seldom considered. The current study analyzed experiences with implementation of counseling for families with physically ill parents and minor children during a European multisite pilot project.

Method: Implementation protocols of seven European partner centers collaborating in a joint research project were analyzed by Mayring's qualitative content analysis.

Motherhood and early interaction in a schizoaffective patient: the story of a long-term psychotherapy.

This paper focused on motherhood in a patient with a schizoaffective disorder. The core of the treatment was to build a strong therapeutic alliance in which compliance with medication and elaboration of mental processes could be achieved. Pregnancy and motherhood are a time of crisis in the life of women.

Cancer during pregnancy: Two case studies.

When a pregnant woman develops cancer, death and life are competing in her body and in her mind. In this article, two cases of pregnant cancer patients are described. The pregnant women were accompanied through their journey toward delivery and during the first months with their newborn.

Multinational study of cancer patients and their children: factors associated with family functioning.

Purpose: This study examined factors associated with family functioning in cancer patients' families with dependent children.

Patients And Methods: A sample of 381 families (639 parents and 489 children) was recruited simultaneously in six European countries. Patients and family members completed a background questionnaire, the Family Assessment Device (FAD), the Beck Depression Inventory, and the short form version of the Medical Outcomes Health Survey.

Does attachment theory offer new resources to the treatment of schizoaffective patients?

This paper focused on considering schizoaffective disorder in the light of Attachment Theory: a case of intensive psychotherapy with a patient with a schizoaffective disorder was presented. In this case, Attachment Theory provided a useful framework for understanding the patient as well for her treatment. The core of the treatment was to build a strong therapeutic alliance in which compliance with medication and elaboration of psychological processes could be achieved.

Children of parents with cancer: a collaborative project between a child psychiatry clinic and an adult oncology clinic.

This article describes the development of a collaborative relationship between a child psychiatry clinic and an adult oncology clinic within a university hospital. The interest of the child psychiatry clinic was to pay attention to children of parents with cancer, and to propose an intervention to support them. A child-centred family counselling model was designed for this purpose.