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Family Health- promotion Proj ects

An Action-theoretical Perspective

University of Berne, Switzerland

Richard A. Young

University of British Columbia, Canada

M. Judith Lynam

University of British Columbia, Canada

The concept of the family health-promotion project is introduced as a means of describing and analysing health-promoting processes in a family. We suggest that an action-theoretical conceptualization provides a language for dealing with socially embedded human behaviour. The levels of project organization are described and the issues discussed are: hierarchical organization, communication, goal structure, steering, control, regulation, energizing, perspectives and construction, group or joint action, three-dimensional structure of group action, dual enfolding of group actions, properties of group action and of family projects. The research design and methods of a current study on a family health-promotion project are presented and explained.

Key Words: action theory • family • group action • health promotion, project

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 1, No. 1, 49-63 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/135910539600100105


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