Family Functioning and Mental Illness: A Comparison of Psychiatric and Nonclinical Families

The primary objective of the present investigation was to examine adaptive functioning in the families of patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders. Seven dimensions of family functioning, as measured by the Family Assessment Device (FAD), were compared across families of patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder ( n = 61 ), bipolar disorder ( n = 60 ), major depression ( n = 111 ), anxiety disorder ( n = 15 ), eating disorder (...