The Concept of Positivity in Family Therapy and the Task of Psychological Assistance to the Contemporary Russian Family

From a sociological standpoint, the family is the most important element of society: a healthy family properly performing all its functions—cultural, emotional, and socioeconomic—is necessary for a healthy society. In psychological terms the family may be defined as a system of interpersonal interactions whose purpose, generally speaking, is, on the one hand, to protect the individual from the manipulative influences of society and, on the...