Sometimes the communications between two persons do not succeed in the situation like the family that the member and the environment do not change easily. When it occurs they will become to be able to do commumcations smoothly if the third person who does not relate to communications intervenes it.

　　This research treats the case with the mother and the daughter who were chiefly repeating aggressive communications at the non-verbal level. The daughter complained about a hypochondria and vague anxiety. The family counseling in which parents and the daughter participated was executed two times in two months. The therapists helped the mother and the daughter to express their emotions in the word. As a result, it was clarified that the mother had abused her daughter when the daughter was a child. The mother talked crying that she was afraid of her daughter and. felt sorry for abusing her at the past time.

　　By counseling the mother and the daughter were able to express their emotions and communicate freely not at the non-verbal level but at the verbal-level. That is they could exchange feed-backs at their communications. The daughter become less complaining her anxiety.

　　The reason the method was efficient is that the communications pattern is adjusted by the therapists as a third person. The role in communications that the third person played was confirmed.

　　For such a family, it is hoped that the father actively participators in mother and daughter’s communications.

　　This study was designed to examine wives’ perceptions of equity/inequity in the division of household labor with their husbands. Questionnaires were administered to wives who had at least one kindergartner. They were asked equity/inequity in household labor from two kinds of viewpoints; relational comparison and referential comparison. They evaluated their division of household labor with their husbands. Next, they compared their division of household labor with those of their close friends. Their marital relationships were rated by Quality Marriage Index (QMI; Norton, 1983). In addition, they rated their own sex-role attitudes and inferred their husbands' attitudes, using Spence ＆ Helmreich’s (1978) Attitudes Toward Women Scale.

　　The main results were as follows:

　　1) Wives felt much underbenefited in the division of household labor. Their perceptions of inequity were salient in the relational comparison.

　　2) Among egalitarian wives who had traditional partners, the referential comparison was significantly related with QMI. In contrast, among egalitarian wives who had egalitarian partners, the relational comparison significantly determined marital relationships. Those results were in part consistent with similarity hypothesis proposed by VanYperen ＆ Buunk (1991).

　　3) In the dyad type composed of a traditional wife and a egalitarian husband, the most positive evaluation of marital relationships was revealed, while the dyad of a egalitarian wife and a traditional husband produced incompatibility. Those results can’t be explained by the fundamental paradox phenomenon suggested by Ickes (1993).

　　Inspite of rapid development of new techniques of systemic family therapies, method of recording the therapy process is not yet explored enough. The author created a new method of recording the process of therapeutic interviews, based on the tow basic concepts of "Frame" and "Grallary", first proposed by B. P. Keeney (1992).

　　The author was in search of more effective method of recording therapeutic process than simple verbal documentations. If was expected that a new media of recording may shed light on the therapeutic process itself. The author’s effort was firts materialized as "Hyoki-system" (1995a. b. c.), which was improved and named "note-system".

　　The Note-system is composed of three sub-systems of illustrative tables. The first series of tables depict and organize problems and corresponding interventions.

　　The second table series illustrate therapeutic moves by interventions and corresponding change of so-called "Gallary" comprising definitions of problems.

　　The third table series show change of Gallary in terms of the transition of time. A family therapy can be illustrated in a wider perspective by the Note-system. The Note-system may stimulate the therapist to open up a new insight and can be effectively used tools of education and consultations.

　　A case example of a family with a school refusal IP was presented with discussion of practical value of the Note-system.

　　The purpose of this study was to research the conception about the healthy family in adolescence.

　　In the primary research with a sample of 307 college students, three variables of healthy family functioning (positive family views, roles and rules, and problem solving) were found.

　　In the second research, 42-items of healthy family functioning, the general health questionnaire (GHQ) and figures of family relationships in Schematic Projective Techniques were administered to 75 college students and their fathers and mothers. The major findings were as follows.

　　(1) There were different between sons’/daughters’ perceptions and parents’ perceptions of healthy family functioning.

　　(2) In students’ data, correlational analysis revealed that positive family views had significant negative correlation with score of GHQ (child’s mental health). Multiple regression analysis revealed that in figures of family relationships distances among family members’ card (e.g. father-mother, father-child, and mother-child) predicted positive family views and problem solving.

　　(3) By path-analysis, the direct influence of positive family views and the indirect influence of mental distances among family members on child’s mental health were found. In influence paths, problem solving and positive family views in healthy family functioning acted as parameters.

　　The implications of these findings for healthy family were discussed.