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xABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSStudy of Sexuality (SSSS) and has presented papers at the SSSS WesternRegional Conferences and the Los Angeles SSSS Chapter. He is also a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), and he is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. In addition,he is an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy ApprovedSupervisor and a California Association of Marriage and Family TherapyCertified Supervisor, providing supervision, training, workshops, and consultation with mental health agencies in the Los Angeles area. He has beena California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for more than 13years, specializing in sexual minority mental health, couple therapy, andworking with same-sex couples.Brent Bradley, PhD, is assistant professor of counseling and director of themarriage and family therapy track in the Graduate Counseling Departmentat Indiana Wesleyan University. He received his doctorate in Marriage andFamily Therapy from Fuller Seminary School of Psychology in 2001. He isa clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and FamilyTherapy. Dr. Bradley has published original research in emotionally focused couples therapy (EFT), and actively researches, writes, and presentsthe approach.Stephen Cheung, PsyD, is an interim core faculty of clinical psychology atAntioch University in Los Angeles. He is teaching Brief Therapy, FamilyTherapy, Group Therapy, and Psychological Testing. Before he joined Antioch University in 2004, Dr. Cheung had been a program director andclinical psychologist at Asian Pacific Counseling and Treatment Centers(APCTC) in Los Angeles coordinating and supervising their children andadult programs for 12 years. For almost three decades, he has beenproviding short-term and longer-term psychotherapy to a wide variety ofclients. He has specialized in: Eating, Substance-related, Personality,Mood, and Anxiety Disorders; grief therapy; and psychological testing.Since 1996, he has been teaching at Phillips Graduate Institute, CaliforniaState University at Los Angeles, and Pepperdine University. He has alsobeen presenting training in strategic and solution-focused brief therapy,an integrated treatment approach to eating disorders, and psychotheraywith childhood abuse survivors in local, national, and international mental health conferences.Kahni Clements received her BA in psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a graduate student in clinical psychology at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research interests arerelationship violence and couples communication interactions.Yolanda de Varela, PhD Candidate, is a clinical psychologist with a master’sdegree in educational psychology and is completing her doctorate. She has

About the Contributorsxibeen president of the Panamanian Psychological Association, a foundingmember of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, and director of the Panama Satellite Program of IIORT. She is author and co-author ofmany articles on object relations and on couples therapy.Coreen Farris received her BA in psychology from Brandeis University. Sheis a graduate student in clinical psychology at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research interests are in substance use and aggression.Ellen Faulk, MA, is a faculty member at Phillips Graduate Institute in Encino, California. She is a member of the California Association of Marriageand Family Therapists, the American Association for Marriage and FamilyTherapy, and a student member of the American Psychological Association.Ms. Faulk provides training, workshops, and consultation for mental healthproviders on working with adult survivors of sexual abuse. She has been aconsultant to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Federal Bureau of Investigation. Ms. Faulk is a practicing marriage and familytherapist specializing in traumatized populations.Lori H. Gordon, PhD, is founder/president/training director of the PAIRSFoundation, Inc. and serves as chief executive officer of the executive board.She conducts a private clinical practice through the Family Relations Institute, Falls Church, Virginia, and consults through Tequesta ConsultingServices, Ltd. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the author of three popularbooks: Love Knots, Passage to Intimacy, and If You Really Loved Me. She is alsoco-author of two professional articles on the PAIRS program as well as arange of professional training curricula, articles, and materials. She continues to develop relationship programs through the PAIRS Foundation thatare designed to sustain healthy marriages and stable families. Dr. Gordontrains health care professionals and selected public worldwide to teach therange of PAIRS programs.Michele Harway, PhD, ABPP, is a member of the core faculty in the Psychology Department at Antioch University, Santa Barbara. She is also amember of the consulting faculty at the Fielding Graduate Institute andshe maintains a private practice in Westlake Village, California. Dr. Harway has written and presented extensively on domestic violence, traumasurvival, gender, and family issues. She is the author or editor of eightbooks including Treating the Changing Family: Handling Normative and Unusual Events and Spouse Abuse: Assessing & Treating Battered Women, Batterers,and Their Children (Second Edition). Active in governance of the AmericanPsychological Association (APA), she is past-president of the Division ofFamily Psychology and current treasurer of the Society for the Study ofMen and Masculinity. She is a fellow of three divisions of APA and is alsoa board-certified family psychologist (ABPP).

xiiABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSAmy Holtzworth-Munroe, PhD, is a professor of psychology at IndianaUniversity, Bloomington. She received her doctorate in clinical psychologyfrom the University of Washington. For almost 20 years, she has conductedresearch on the problem of husband violence, comparing the social skills ofviolent and nonviolent husbands and examining the marital interactionsof violent couples. Her more recent research focuses on subtypes of malebatterers. She has led batterer treatment groups and worked with a localdomestic violence task force to set up a batterers’ treatment program.Dr. Holtzworth-Munroe teaches a couples therapy practicum for graduatestudents. She is past associate editor of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Therapy and Research and a past member of NIH grantreview panels in the area of family violence.Susan M. Johnson, PhD, is professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ottawa University and director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute.She received her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University ofBritish Columbia. She is a registered psychologist in the province of Ontario, Canada, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Maritaland Family Therapy, the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, and theJournal of Family Psychology. She is one of the originators and the main proponent of emotionally focused couples therapy, now one of the best validated couples’ approaches in North America.Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, is in independent practice as a psychologist, coach, family business consultant, and mediator in Palm Beach County,Florida. She is also director of the Florida Couples and Family Institute; anadjunct professor of medical psychology, Department of Psychiatry at DukeUniversity Medical School in Durham, North Carolina; and a visiting professor of psychology at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida.Dr. Kaslow is board certified in clinical, family, and forensic psychologyfrom the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), and in sexology from the American Board of Clinical Sexology. Dr. Kaslow is a fellow ofDivisions 12, 29, 41, 42, 43, and 46 of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT),and other organizations. She has edited, authored, or co-authored 19 booksand has contributed chapters to more than 50 other books. Over 150 of herarticles have been published in professional journals here and abroad. She isalso on the editorial boards of numerous journals in psychology and familypsychology. Dr. Kaslow has received numerous honors in psychology, familypsychology, and international psychology.Charley Lang, MA, MFT, has a private practice in Los Angeles. He alsoteaches Narrative Therapy at Antioch University, Los Angeles, and supervises the mental health staff at the AIDS Service Center in Pasadena. Heproduced and directed the award-winning documentary films Live to Tell:

About the ContributorsxiiiThe First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America, Battle for the Tiara, and Gay Cops:Pride Behind the Badge.Linda Morano Lower, MS, MA, LMFT, holds masters degrees in both marriage and family therapy and ascetical theology from California LutheranUniversity and Fordham University, respectively. She has been in privatepractice as a marriage and family therapist for 17 years in Camarillo andWestlake Village, and she specializes in working with couples at all stages oftheir life cycles. Linda lives in Camarillo, California, where, with her therapist husband, she is parenting two teen-aged daughters.Don-David Lusterman, PhD, is the author of Infidelity: A Survival Guide andco-editor of Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approachand Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory as well as several other books, book chapters, and articles. He also servesas consulting editor for the Journal of Family Psychology and is on the editorialboard of The American Journal of Family Therapy. He founded the program infamily counseling at Hofstra University in 1973 and served as its coordinatoruntil 1980. He was also the founding executive director of the AmericanBoard of Family Psychology (now part of the American Board of ProfessionalPsychology) and holds an ABPP Diplomate in family psychology. He is a fellow of APA’s divisions of Family Psychology, Psychotherapy, IndependentPractice, Media Psychology, and Men and Masculinity. He is also a fellowand approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage andFamily Therapy. He is a charter member of the American Family TherapyAcademy on whose board he also serves. Dr. Lusterman is in private practicein Baldwin, New York.C. Haydee Mas, PhD, did her undergraduate work at the University ofMichigan and her graduate studies in clinical psychology at the Universityof Utah where she was chairperson of the graduate student minority committee. Her research interests and publications have focused on therapistclient communication styles, FFT process studies, support systems inabusive families, as well as family communication and attributional stylesin families with an adolescent. She is currently in private practice workingwith couples and families with adolescents and children, and she conductstherapy in Spanish with bilingual and bicultural clients and families.Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, is professor of psychiatry and family medicine,director of the Division of Family Programs and the Wynne Center forFamily Research in Psychiatry, and associate chair of the Department ofFamily Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine andDentistry in Rochester, New York. She has many publications in the areas ofmedical family therapy, family-oriented primary care, and supervision andconsultation. Her special areas of interest are family dynamics and genetic

xivABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORStesting, somatization, and gender and health. She is a frequent speaker atmeetings of both health and mental health professionals. Dr. McDaniel isco-editor, with Thomas Campbell, MD, of the multidisciplinary journal,Families, Systems and Health, and serves on many other journal boards. Sheco-authored or co-edited the following books: Systems Consultation, FamilyOriented Primary Care, Medical Family Therapy, Integrating Family Therapy,Counseling Families with Chronic Illness, The Shared Experience of Illness, Integrating Family Therapy, and the Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy. Somebooks have been translated into several languages; an additional volume isexclusively in German.Dr. McDaniel was chair of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriageand Family Therapy Education in 1998, president of the Division of FamilyPsychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1999, andchair of the APA Publications and Communications Board in 2002. Dr. McDaniel was recognized by the APA as the 1995 Family Psychologist of theYear. In 1998, she was the first psychologist to be a fellow in the PublicHealth Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship. She also won the Postdoctoral Academic Mentoring Award from her medical school in 1998, and in2000 she received the award for Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy from the American Family Therapy Academy.William C. Nichols, EdD, ABPP, is a marital and family therapist anddiplomate in clinical psychology, a fellow, clinical member, and approvedsupervisor of the AAMFT; a charter member of both the American FamilyTherapy Academy and the International Family Therapy Association(IFTA); and a fellow of both the American Psychological Association andthe American Psychological Society. He was in full-time private practicefor nearly 25 years and taught and supervised postdoctoral, doctoral, andmasters’ students in MFT programs and postdegree professionals for 35years at Florida State University, the Merrill-Palmer Institute, and elsewhere. Founder and first editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy,he also edited Family Relations, and currently edits Contemporary FamilyTherapy. He has written or edited eight MFT and therapy books, conceptualized and launched MFT accreditation, wrote the first model licensinglaws, co-wrote the national licensing examination, and chaired a state licensing board for seven years. He has been president of the AAMFT, IFTA,and the National Council on Family Relations.Roberta L. Nutt, PhD, ABPP, is the founder and director of the counselingpsychology doctoral program that emphasizes family psychology andwomen’s/gender issues at Texas Women’s University. She is co-author ofthe “Division 17 Principles Concerning the Counseling/Psychotherapy ofWomen: Rationale and Implementation” and Bridging Separate GenderWorlds: Why Men and Women Clash and How Therapists Can Bring Them Together. Dr. Nutt has written and presented extensively on gender and

About the Contributorsxvfamily issues, served in a number of leadership roles in psychology includingpresident of the Family Psychology Division of APA and held offices in boththe women’s and men’s divisions. She holds the ABPP diplomate in familypsychology. She is currently co-chairing an APA Interdivisional Task Forcedeveloping new guidelines for psychological practice with girls and women.Terence Patterson, EdD, ABPP, is professor and director of the doctoralprogram in counseling psychology at the University of San Francisco. He isa licensed psychologist and is board certified in family psychology with theAmerican Board of Professional Psychology. His specialties are family psychology, ethical issues, and theoretical orientation in psychotherapy. He ison the boards of a number of professional journals and has authored Vol. II(Cognitive-Behavioral) of the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, and theCouple & Family Clinical Documentation Sourcebook. Dr. Patterson has servedas president of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association and is a fellow of APA.Thomas H. Peake, PhD, ABPP, is professor and associate dean for the Schoolof Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology (Melbourne), and adjunctprofessor in the Department of Aging and Mental Health of the Florida Institute of Mental Health of the University of South Florida (Tampa). Licensed in Virginia, Michigan, Florida, and chartered in Great Britain, he haspracticed clinical, health, and family psychology for over 15 years. He is adiplomate (ABPP) in both clinical and health psychology and is an approvedsupervisor for AAMFT. Dr. Peake’s publication and practice areas includebooks and articles on brief psychotherapies, clinical training and supervision, couples therapy, medical/health psychology, healthy aging, and a bookCinema and Life Development: Healing Lives and Training Therapists.Patricia Pitta, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified family psychologist. She received her doctorate from Fordham University and completed postdoctoraltraining in family therapy at the Center for Family Learning, Ryebrook,New York. In addition, she holds a degree in pastoral formation which enables her to integrate spirituality with psychology. For the past 10 years,Dr. Pitta has been a professor of psychology in the doctoral and postdoctoral training programs at St. John’s University. As developer of IntegrativeHealing Family Therapy, Dr. Pitta has published many articles about thetheory and its applications. She has also produced a video entitled “Parenting Your Elderly Parents” (published by APA Publications) and is the author of a marital therapy manual (published by Division 42 of APA).Joy K. Rice, PhD, is clinical professor of psychiatry and Emerita Professorof Educational Policy and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She also maintains an active psychotherapy practice with Psychiatric Services in Madison. Her research activity includes more than 100

xviABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSnational and international presentations and publications on family change,poverty, and mental health. Living through Divorce: A Developmental Approachto Divorce Therapy, written with Dr. David Rice, was honored as a Book-ofthe-Month selection.Active in international psychology, Dr. Rice is secretary of the International Council of Psychologists, chair elect of the APA Committee on International Relations in Psychology, and president elect of APA Division 52,International Psychology. She has received numerous awards and honors forher research and social policy work on behalf of disadvantaged families andwomen nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of the EducationalPress Association Distinguished Achievement Award, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and is listed in Who’s Who of Women andthe World’s Who’s Who of Women.Lynne V. Rosen, LCSW, is core faculty and director of the Post ModernTherapy Training Program at Phillips Graduate Institute in Encino, California. She is interested in collaborative education and integrating her passion and commitment to diversity and social justice in training andteaching contexts. Ms. Rosen is co-founder of Women’s Project Los Angeles(WPLA), a community-based project focused on social constructionist andfeminist ideas. WPLA utilizes innovative forms of dialogue in order tobring forward new perspectives and possibilities that can lead to meaningful change in women’s lives. She maintains a private practice and has along-standing interest in working with women who are taking their livesback from eating problems, abuse, and trauma and in working with couplesand families.David E. Scharff, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is co-directorof the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC. Dr. Scharffis clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University and at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is author, co-author,and editor of 15 books including Object Relations Couples Therapy and ObjectRelations Individual Therapy.Ilene Serlin, PhD, ADTR, is a licensed psychologist and a registereddance/movement therapist. Dr. Serlin is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, past president of Division 32 of APA, council representative from Division 32, and has served on the editorial boards of The Artsin Psychotherapy, Journal of the American Dance Therapy Association, and theJournal of Humanistic Psychology. She has taught at Saybrook GraduateSchool and Research Institute, UCLA, Antioch University, and AlliantGraduate School. She has consulted and worked with clergy, and is the author of: Therapy with a Borderline Nun, A Psycho-spiritual Body Approach to aResidential Treatment of Catholic Religious, a

cused couples therapy (EFT), and actively researches, writes, and presents the approach. Stephen Cheung, PsyD, is an interim core faculty of clinical psychology at Antioch University in Los Angeles. He is teaching Brief Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy