Presents Ethics Model of Marriage and Family Counseling and its underlying assumptions. Analyzes six basic counseling values in relation to microsystems of counselor and client, mesosystem of counseling process, and societal value context as the macrosystem. Utilizes discussion of suicide to apply these values to the model. Includes 17 references.…

Four faculty members reflect individually and collectively on their lives and roles as educators. They recommend a deliberate process of self-reflection to other family-therapy educators and offer suggestions for improving the organizational dynamics of family-therapy training programs. (Author/MKA)

Presents three supervision methods which emerged from a qualitative study of the experiences of feminist family therapy supervisors and the therapists they supervised: the supervision contract, collaborative methods, and hierarchical methods. Provides a description of the participants' experiences of these methods and discusses their fit with…

Participatory evaluation research empowers the consumers of services to become leaders in evaluation and change. Participatory research methods have been used widely in developing countries and are consistent with family therapy's recent emphasis on nonhierarchical, empowering, collaborative therapies. Presents several examples of participatory…

Examined validity, reliability, and curvilinearity of Clinical Rating Scale and tested scale's ability to discriminate between clinical families and nonclinical families on family cohesion, adaptability, and communication. Data from two groups of problem families and two control groups supported curvilinear hypothesis that problem families are…

Describes the experiences of six marriage and family therapy (MFT) interns who worked with 27 families in their homes. A model of the interns' transition from clinic-based to home-based therapy is discussed and applied to working with Head Start families. The framework is expanded to conceptualizing larger systems and community-based…

Summarizes the experience of a two-year project to promote partnerships between 12 graduate Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) training programs and their 12 local Head Start partners. Results reflect the rich experiences of MFT faculty, supervisors, interns, and Head Start staff. Recommendations are made to improve collaboration between MFTs and…

This article proposes and discusses three guiding questions that can help counselors conceptualize and differentiate family therapy with gifted and talented adolescents. The questions address the identification of the problem, deciding who is going to participate in the counseling, and deciding what approach to family therapy will be most…