AIM, TASKS, FOUNDATIONS AND STAGES OF FAMILY SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

Attention is drawn to the growing role of the family in difficult and changeable social and economical conditions of modern life, caused by it problems. The specificity of social and psychological approach to family examination in modern social and economical conditions that consists, on the one hand, in search for objective standards in order to differ types of family, on the other hand, in describing content-rich characteristics of family as a natural small group and peculiarities of certain family type affecting personality is proved. The necessity of matching and integration of social and psychological approaches to family examination, each of them has its own traditions of group examination, is mentioned. The specificity of approaches written above and their role in unified social and psychological approach to family examination is examined. Aim and tasks of social and pedagogical family examination as a direction of professional activity of tutor-psychologists and social care teacher based on social and psychological approach are defined. The content of general and special foundations of social and psychological approach, main stages of this process: formation of necessity of family examination; general acquaintance with family; analyzing the results of examination and hypothesizing on causes of family problems’; social and psychological family diagnosis are noted

family, family dysfunctions, family diagnosis, family potential, sociological and psychological approach