Family Assessment Scale
This scale was developed in 1983 within the framework of a family research program, and it was formed during clinical administration of the McMaster Model of Family Functioning on families. It is a self-assessment scale allowing evalua-tion of all areas in which a family fulfils or fails to fulfil its functions as perceived by the family itself. This scale was designed to distinguish the structural and organisational characteristic of families, as well as the healthy and unhealthy interaction between family members. The Turkish validity and reliability data of the scale support the findings obtained from the study conducted in the original language of the scale. Therefore, the scale is also valid and reliable in the Turkish language and applied also to the conditions of Turkey. The applicability and reliability of the scale in Turkey was tested by Bulut (1990). The scale consists of 60 items and seven subscales. The subscales are Problem Solving (PS), Communication (COM), Roles (Rs), Reacting Emotionaly (RE), Effective Responsiveness (ER), Behaviour Control (BC) and General Functioning (GF). Responses ranged from 1 (‘I fully agree’) to 4 (‘I don’t agree at all’). Each subscale is scored from 1 to 4. Theoretically, the cut-off point is two and the mean scores above two are an indica-tion of impairment in family functioning (Bulut 1990).