Problemy transformatsii i funktsionirovaniya sem'i na sovremennom etape razvitiya obshchestva opredelyayut aktual'nost' sokhraneniya psikhicheskogo zdorov'ya vsekh chlenov sem'i. Predstavlen obzor noveyshikh nauchnykh semeyno-geneticheskikh issledovaniy osnovnykh klinicheskikh, geneticheskikh, sotsial'no-psikhologicheskikh i etiko-gumanitarnykh faktorov pri nevroticheskikh i shizofrenicheskikh rasstroystvakh. Avtor predlagaet opredelenie ontogeneticheskogo tsikla sem'i, semeyno-geneticheskogo krizisa, mnogourovnevoy modeli funktsionirovaniya sem'i, bioetiki sem'i, kak vazhnykh sostavlyayushchikh sistemnykh semeynykh otnosheniy i mekhanizmov preventsii psikhicheskikh rasstroystv. Adekvatnost' issledovatel'skikh metodov effektivnoy klinicheskoy praktiki pozvolila obosnovat' sovremennye printsipy preventsii psikhicheskikh rasstroystv (Tsentr semeyno-geneticheskoy preventsii i adaptatsii Psikhicheskoe zdorov'e sem'i). Dlya vrachey razlichnykh spetsial'nostey (psikhiatrov, psikhoterapevtov, genetikov, vrachey obshchey semeynoy praktiki i drugikh), nauchnykh rabotnikov, psikhologov, sotsial'nykh rabotnikov i drugikh spetsialistov, aspirantov i studentov, rabotayushchikh s litsami s psikhicheskimi rasstroystvami i ikh sem'yami.