Attention is called to disturbing developments in insurance reimbursement that threaten the practice of therapy involving more than one person. This can be seen as part of the movement to marginalize psychotherapy as first-line treatment and replace it with the inappropriate and excessive (and often exclusive) use of medication.

Considers ethical issues that arise in conduct of family therapy research, emphasizing (1) researcher's responsibility to protect rights of research participants, (2) confidentiality and informed consent, (3) researcher's values, and (4) methodology. In each area, parallels are drawn between ethical issues facing family clinicians and those facing…

Argues that standard research methods are the only ethically responsible means for assessing the efficacy of family therapy, that they have provided practical data, and that there are insufficient grounds for divorce between "new epistemology" and standard research. (WAS)

Research investigating training in family therapy is scant. This paper describes existing models of training in marriage and family therapy, major issues pertinent to the evaluation of the effectiveness of such training, and suggests a methodology for such evaluation. (Author)

Institutional sources of all articles published in the three major marriage and family therapy journals through 1978 are identified. The journals reviewed include "Family Process,""Journal of Marital and Family Therapy," and the "American Journal of Family Therapy." A few institutions have exerted a profound impact on the literature. (Author)

Rapprochement among competing methods and views of marital and family therapy constitutes a major creative challenge for the field in the 1980s. Although integrative efforts have begun, psychodynamic understanding of intimate relationships is necessary for continuation of integrative process growth. (Author/NRB)