Der Jahrgang 2011 wird der 50ste Jahrgang von„Family Process“ sein, die damit ihr erstes halbes Jahrhundert voll macht. Die Herausgeberin Evan Imber-Black schreibt im Editorial der letzten Ausgabe von 2010:„This is an opportunity for submission of major review articles examining the history and developmental arcs of Family Therapy theory, practice, and research, as well as “out of the box” manuscripts in keeping with the vision of our founders. (Well, some of our origins were out of the box and some were not, as exemplified by the line in the opening essay, “The journal will welcome reports of experiences by therapists treating married couples and families” [Italics added] [p. 4].) Theory and practice had not yet acknowledged single parent families, couples who lived together without marriage, or re-marriage. Gay and lesbian couples and gay and lesbian headed households were invisible. And while the founders asked for “studies which categorize families by culture and by class” (p. 4), it would be a long time before nuanced papers examining the complexities of culture and class emerged. The journal was born just as the paroxysms of the 1960s were beginning. Our shift from studying the individual and intra-psychic to the systemic and relational was but one change in a decade marked by the expansion of civil rights, social changes wrought by the war in Vietnam, and incipient movements for social justice, many still unrealized. I am hoping that authors will view this moment of the 50th year of Family Process to send their very best work—work that is lens-changing, paradigm-shifting, and surprising“ Das Jahr 2011 soll also auch eines des Rückblick auf Erreichtes und des Ausblicks auf Zukünftiges sein. Das vorliegende Heft hat einen deutlichen Forschungsschwerpunkt, unter den Arbeiten befindet sich auch eine Zusammenfassung der Wirksamkeitsstudie zur Systemischen Therapie von Kirsten von Sydow, Stefan Beher, Jochen Schweitzer und Rüdiger Retzlaff. Darüber hinaus finden sich auch noch zwei eher praxisbezogene Beiträge zur Paartherapie, die sich mit Eifersucht (Michele Scheinkman & Denise Werneck) und mit„Good Enough Stories“ (Karen Skerrett) beschäftigen.
Zu den vollständigen abstracts…