Davor Jedlicka, PhD

The author, Davor Jedlicka, has a long history of research and teaching in the field of family science. It began in 1972 when, under the tutelage of Linton C. Freeman, he studied social networks and primary relationships. Dr. Jedlicka continued this research in a doctoral dissertation completed in 1975 at the University of Hawaii. His dissertation revealed a pattern of consistency in serial marital relationships. This finding led to the development of Affinographs, a theory and method for...See more

The author, Davor Jedlicka, has a long history of research and teaching in the field of family science. It began in 1972 when, under the tutelage of Linton C. Freeman, he studied social networks and primary relationships. Dr. Jedlicka continued this research in a doctoral dissertation completed in 1975 at the University of Hawaii. His dissertation revealed a pattern of consistency in serial marital relationships. This finding led to the development of Affinographs, a theory and method for imaging and interpreting compound families dominating the American society today. The affinographs evolved further through Dr. Jedlicka's participation in a National Science Foundation project, and lectures as a Fulbright scholar in Europe. After decades of research at the University of Georgia and the University of Texas at Tyler, Dr. Jedlicka published a book entitled Affinographs: A Dynamic Method for Assessment of Individuals, Couples, Families, and Households. In 1988, he co-authored with Dr. William M. Kephart the sixth edition of The Family, Society, and the Individual. To expand his perspective on family science, Dr. Jedlicka earned a doctorate in family therapy from Texas Woman's University in 1999. His research since then spans family science applicable in areas from counseling and psychiatry to demography and sociology. This interdisciplinary framework expanded the foundation of the individual-societal perspective in family science. See less