'This lucid and stimulating book makes the job of mastering the McMaster Approach far easier than it has ever been in the past. This is an excellent volume that will be the definitive, comprehensive guidebook to the McMaster Approach for many years to come.' - Steven R. H. Beach, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Director of the Institute for Behavioral Research, Director of Clinical Psychology Program, University of Georgia'Rarely, if ever, has such a comprehensive treatise on family therapy appeared. Anchored and guided by research, this book is the Holy Grail to a thinking, feeling and doing approach to studying, understanding and treating families, and to teaching about family therapy. It is must reading for any serious student of family function and family psychopathology.' - Thomas F. Anders M.D., President Elect, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California - Davis'Evaluating and Treating Families traces the development of a clinical model that links readily to current trends in family therapy and family psychology.' - Mark Stanton, PhD, ABPP, President, Family Psychology Division (43) of the American Psychological Association; Chair, Department of Graduate Psychology, Azusa Pacific University'Ryan, Epstein, and colleagues have written an elegantly simple and straightforward manual for the empirically grounded assessment and treatment of families.' - William M. Pinsof, Ph.D., President, The Family Institute
