Table of Contents

1: William M. Pinsof and Jay Lebow: Introduction: A scientific paradigm for family psychology
Section I. Marriage and Marital Intervention
2: Robert L. Weiss: A critical view of marital satisfaction
3: Andrew Christensen, Brian D. Doss, and David C. Atkins: A science of couple therapy: For what should we seek empirical support?
4: John Gottman and Kimberly Ryan: The mis-measure of therapy: Treatment outcomes in marital therapy research
5: Susan M. Johnson: Emotion and the repair of close relationships
6: Howard J. Markman, Galena H. Kline, Jacqueline G. Rea, Samantha Simms Piper, and Scott M. Stanley: A sampling of theoretical, methodological, and policy issues in marriage education: Implications for family psychology
Section II. Partner Violence: Participation Perspectives and Treatment
7: Deborah M. Capaldi, Joan Wu Shortt, and Hyoun K. Kim: A life span developmental systems perspective on aggression toward a partner
8: Amy Holtzworth-Munroe and Jeffrey C. Meehan: Partner violence and men: A focus on the male perpetrator
9: Mary Ann Dutton, Mai El-Khoury, Megan Murphy, Rachel Somberg, and Margaret Bell: Women in intimate partner violence: Major advances and new directions
10: Ernest N. Jouriles, Renee McDonald, and Nancy Skopp: Partner Violence and Children
11: K. Daniel O'Leary and Edward M. Vega: Can partner aggression be stopped with psychosocial interventions?
Section III. Families in Divorce and Remarriage: Family Member Perspectives
12: James H. Bray and Irene Easling: Remarriage and stepfamilies
13: Sanford L. Braver, William A. Griffin, Jeffrey T. Cookston, Irwin N. Sandler, and Jason Williams: Promoting better fathering among divorced non-resident fathers
14: Melvin N. Wilson, Anthony L. Chambers, and LaKeesha N. Woods: Fathers in African American families: The importance of social and cultural context
15: Bernadette Marie Bullock and Marion S. Forgatch: Mothers in transition: Model based strategies for effective parenting
Section IV. Families and Depression
16: Valerie E. Whiffen: Disentangling causality in the associations between couple and family processes and depression
17: Nadine J. Kaslow, Claudia Jones, and Frances Palin: A relational perspective on depressed children: Family patterns and interventions
18: Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow, Martha Tompson, and Michele S. Berk: Adolescent depression: Family focused on treatment strategies
19: Steven Beach and Maya E. Gupta: Marital discord in the context of a depressive episode: Research on efficacy and effectiveness
20: Guillermo Bernal and Emily Saez-Santiago: Toward culturally-centered and evidence-based treatments for depressed adolescents
21: Beatrice L. Wood and Bruce D. Miller: Families, health and illness: The search for pathways and mechanisms of effect
22: Joan M. Patterson: Weaving gold out of straw: Meaning-making in families who have children with chronic illnesses
23: Lawrence Fisher: Using family models in health research: A framework for family intervention in chronic disease
Index

Reviews

"Rather than simply castigating and discarding family interventions, professors and practitioners should expend the effort to become acquainted with and appreciative of the body of research literature that has been achieved, particularly in the past decade. Family Psychology: The Art of the Science provides important information of this nature and does so in an enlightening manner that students and practitioners will welcome."--PsycCRITIQUES
"Rather than simply castigating and discarding family interventions, professors and practitioners should expend the effort to become acquainted with and appreciative of the body of research literature that has been achieved, particularly in the past decade. Family Psychology: The Art of the Science provides important information of this nature and does so in an enlightening manner that students and practitioners will welcome."--PsycCRITIQUES