Table of Contents

Contents Thoughts on Microcomputers, Families, and Relationships

• Computers and Families--An Overview
• Computers, People and the Home
• Home Computers: Implications for Children and Families
• An Ethnographic Look at Personal Computers in the Family Setting
• Home Computers and Family Empowerment
• The Diffusion of Home Computers Among Households in Silicon Valley
• The impact of Small Computers upon Human Services Delivery to Families
• A Computer System to Help Family Members Talk to One Another
• The Dynamics of Family Interaction Around Home Video Games
• The Personal Computer as Marriage Counselor
• Systems Psychotherapy, the Micro-computer, and the American Family
• The Digital Practitioner: Microcomputer Applications to Family Therapy
• Support for the Family in the Post Industrial Society: The Integration of Career Development and Family Systems Therapy via Telecommunications
• The Computer: Extender of Human Solitariness or Solidarity in the Chronicle of Life
• Reference Notes Included