HOW DO WE APPROACH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL-STUDY OF FAMILY

The considerable expansion of psychological research dealing with fami ly problems and the efforts to concentrate this research under the nam e of Family Psychology leads to questions about the state of the resea rch in this field. The article is based on a sketch of the aims of fam ily psychology and concentrates chiefly on three problems which need t o be clarified if the greatly dispersed research is to reveal findings which could be considered as psychological knowledge in this field an d which could be used as a base for theories and further research. It involves a) the problem of stating the basic questions for psychologic al research of family, b) problem of defining basic terms: family and healthy/functional family and c) methodological problem of research ap proach. The article is written ina framework of the problems concernin g responsibility of scientists and thus it is critical toward the lack of attention paid to these problems in many studies and fundamental m ethodological bases.