抄録
Research on family problems in Japan during the last 25 years is thoroughly reviewed in this paper. Each decade has been characterised as follows : in the 1970s as the golden age of family pathology research, in the 1980s as the age of Maxist family problem research, and in the first half decade of the 1990s as a transitional age of family problem research.
Several topics discussed in this paper include internationalization of research, the family crisis debate, problem-solving orientation, and family policy. Finally, it is concluded that the transition of research trends during the last 25 years can be phrased as from pathological and Marxist prespectives to the normalization perspective of family problem research.
