Handbook Of Measurements For Marriage And Family Therapy

Preface

While running professional conferences and training programs for marriage and family therapists, we discovered a great demand for practical, efficient methods for gathering information and making diagnoses. Marriage and family inventories are increasingly available that can aid the working therapist, enlighten the student and intern, and provide reliable and valid measurements for researchers. Usually, these instruments can be found in professional journals.

Straus and Brown (1978) have listed and briefly described 813 marriage and family instruments published prior to 1975. Straus was astonished that so many instruments had been developed: “I thought there would be only 25 to 50 instruments in the literature.” What this probably means ...