INTRODUCTION A characteristic feature of the period of adolescence is to experiment with e.g. alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking. Both family relations and relations with peer groups can be referred to undertaking this kind of behavior by adolescents. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was an attempt to assess relationships between joint family and peer-group relations and the frequency of bin...

This article is about the family relations of patients with anorexia nervosa. Patients’ evaluation of the functioning of the family as a whole and their separate relations with each parent were analysed. Taking Murray Bowen’s family systems theory as his point of departure, the present author assumed that patients would evaluate the functioning of their family negatively, but at the same time w...