Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- A Scientific Paradigm for Family Psychology William M. Pinsof and Jay L. Lebow -- Part I Marriage And Marital Intervention -- 1. A Critical View of Marital Satisfaction Robert L. Weiss -- 2. A Science of Couple Therapy: For What Should We Seek Empirical Support? Andrew Christensen, Brian D. Doss, and David C. Atkins -- 3. The Mismeasure of Therapy: Treatment Outcomes in Marital Therapy Research John Gottman and Kimberly Ryan -- 4. Emotion and the Repair of Close Relationships Susan M. Johnson -- 5. A Sampling of Theoretical, Methodological, and Policy Issues in Marriage Education: Implications for Family Psychology Howard J. Markman, Galena H. Kline, Jacqueline G. Rea, Samantha Simms Piper, and Scott M. Stanley -- Part II Partner Violence: Participant Perspectives And Treatment -- 6. A Life Span Developmental Systems Perspective on Aggression Toward a Partner Deborah M. Capaldi, Joann Wu Shortt, and Hyoun K. Kim -- 7. Partner Violence and Men: A Focus on the Male Perpetrator Amy Holtzworth-Munroe and Jeffrey C. Meehan -- 8. Women in Intimate Partner Violence: Major Advances and New Directions Mary Ann Dutton, Mai El-Khoury, Megan Murphy, Rachel Somberg, and Margret E. Bell -- 9. Partner Violence and Children Ernest N. Jouriles, Renee McDonald, and Nancy A. Skopp -- 10. Can Partner Aggression Be Stopped With Psychosocial Interventions? K. Daniel O'Leary and Edward M. Vega -- Part III Families In Divorce And Remarriage: Family Member Perspectives -- 11. Remarriage and Stepfamilies James H. Bray and Irene Easling -- 12. Promoting Better Fathering Among Divorced Nonresident Fathers Sanford L. Braver, William A. Griffin, Jeffrey T. Cookston, Irwin N. Sandler, and Jason Williams.

13. Fathers in African American Families: The Importance of Social and Cultural Context Melvin N. Wilson, Anthony L. Chambers, and LaKeesha N. Woods -- 14. Mothers in Transition: Model-Based Strategies for Effective Parenting Bernadette Marie Bullock and Marion S. Forgatch -- Part IV Families And Depression -- 15. Disentangling Causality in the Associations Between Couple and Family Processes and Depression Valerie E. Whiffen -- 16. A Relational Perspective on Depressed Children: Family Patterns and Interventions Nadine J. Kaslow, Claudia A. Jones, and Frances Palin -- 17. Adolescent Depression: Family-Focused Treatment Strategies Joan Rosenbaum Asarnow, Martha C. Tompson, and Michele S. Berk -- 18. Marital Discord in the Context of a Depressive Episode: Research on Efficacy and Effectiveness Steven R. H. Beach and Maya E. Gupta -- 19. Toward Culturally Centered and Evidence-Based Treatments for Depressed Adolescents Guillermo Bernal and Emily Saez-Santiago -- Part V Families And Health -- 20. Families, Health, and Illness: The Search for Pathways and Mechanisms of Effect Beatrice L. Wood and Bruce D. Miller -- 21. Weaving Gold Out of Straw: Meaning-Making in Families Who Have Children With Chronic Illnesses Joan M. Patterson -- 22. Using Family Models in Health Research: A Framework for Family Intervention in Chronic Disease Lawrence Fisher -- Index.