About the editor

FLORENCE W. KASLOW, PhD, is Director of the Florida Couples and Family Institute. She is a past president of both the Family Psychology and Media Psychology Divisions of the American Psychological Association and the International Family Therapy Association. She co-chaired the Coalition of Family Diagnosis from 1988 to 1993. And she is a former editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, and editor of the Wiley Series in Couples and Family Dynamics and Treatment. Her other books include The Military Family in Peace and War, Voices in Family Psychology, and Dynamics of Divorce.

Partial table of contents:

THE CONTEXT AND MODELS OF RELATIONAL DIAGNOSIS.

Some Ethical Implications of Relational Diagnosis (M. Gottlieb).

Problems Encountered in Reconciling Individual and Relational Diagnoses (W. Denton).

Clinical Assessment and Treatment Interventions Using the Family Circumplex Model (D. Olson).

Cultural Issues in Relational Diagnosis: Hispanics in the United States (J. Koss-Chioino & J. Canive).

VARIOUS RELATIONAL DIAGNOSES: A LEAP INTO THE FUTURE.

Oppositional Behavior and Conduct Disorders of Children and Youth (J. Alexander & C. Pugh).

Sadomasochistic Interactions (C. Glickauf-Hughes).

Relational Components of the Incest Survivor Syndrome (S. Kirschner & D. Kirschner).

Chronic Illness and the Family (J. Barth).

THE FUTURE OF RELATIONAL DIAGNOSIS.

Recurrent Themes Across Diagnoses (F. Kaslow).

Indexes.