Abstract
There appears to be an increasing emphasis on rule-making and prescription as the preferred means for problem-solving and avoidance of decision risk in individual and family life, and by the institutions which impact on us in our families. Such an approach to family decision-making and the decision-making which affects families is evidence that the principle of agency is losing ground as individuals and families turn increasingly toward certitude in their personal and group decisions. The purpose of this paper is to examine these two approaches to decision-making in families and their relationship to decision context.
(Viriginia F. Cutler Lecture presented at Brigham Young University 18 November 1982.)
Recommended Citation
Edwards, Kay P.
(1983)
"Agency and Certitude: The Dichotomy in Family Decision-Making,"
Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy: Vol. 9:
No.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/irp/vol9/iss2/5