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conducted
research on the problem of husband violence, comparing the social skills of
violent and nonviolent husbands and examining the marital interactions
of violent couples. Her more recent research focuses on subt ypes of male
batterers. She has led batterer treat ment g roups and worked with a local
domestic violence task force to set up a batterers’ treat ment program.
Dr. Holt zworth-Munroe teaches a couples therapy practicum for graduate
st udents. She is past associate editor of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psy-
chology andCognitive Therapy and Research and a past member of NIH grant
review panels in the area of family violence.
Susan M. Johnson, PhD, is professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ot-
tawa Universit y and director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Instit ute.
She received her doctorate in counseling psychology from the Universit y of
British Columbia. She is a regist ered psychologist in the province of On-
tario, Canada, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Marital
and Family Therapy, the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, and the
Journal of Family Psychology. She is one of the originators and the main pro-
ponent of emot ional ly focused couples t herapy, now one of t he best vali-
dated couples’ approaches in North America.
Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, is in independent practice as a psycholo-
gist, coach, family business consultant, and mediator in Palm Beach Count y,
Florida. She is also director of the Florida Couples and Family Instit ute; an
adjunct professor of medical psychology, Depart ment of Psychiatry at Duke
Universit y Medical School in Durham, North Carolina; and a visiting profes-
sor of psychology at Florida Instit ute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida.
Dr. Kaslow is board certif ied in clinical, family, and forensic psychology
from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), and in sexol-
ogy from the American Board of Clinical Sexology. Dr. Kaslow is a fellow of
Divisions 12, 29, 41, 42, 43, and 46 of the American Psychological Associa-
tion, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMF T ),
and other organizations. She has edited, authored, or co-authored
19 books
and has contributed chapters to more than 50 other books. Over 150 of her
articles have been published in professional journals here and abroad. She is
also on the editorial boards of numerous journals in psychology and family
psychology. Dr. Kaslow has received numerous honors in psychology, family
psychology, and international psychology.
Charley Lang, MA, MFT, has a private practice in Los Angeles. He also
teaches Narrative Therapy at Antioch Universit y, Los Angeles, and super-
vises the mental health staff at the AIDS Serv ice Center in Pasadena. He
produced and directed the award-winning documentary f ilms Live to Tell:
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The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America, Battle for the Tiara, andGay Cops:
Pride Behind the Badge.
Linda Morano Lower, MS, MA, LMFT, holds masters degrees in both mar-
riage and family therapy and ascetical theology from California Lutheran
Universit y and Fordham Universit y, respectively. She has been in private
practice as a marriage and family therapist for 17 years in Camarillo and
Westlake Village, and she specializes in working with couples at all stages of
their life cycles. Linda lives in Camarillo, California, where, with her thera-
pist husband, she is parenting two teen-aged daughters.
Don-David Lusterman, PhD, is the author of Infidelity: A Survival Guide and
co-editor of Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach
and Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems The-
ory as well as several other books, book chapters, and articles. He also serves
as consulting editor for the Journal of Family Psychologyand is on the editorial
board of The American Journal of Family Therapy. He founded the program in
family counseling at Hofstra Universit y in 1973 and served as its coordinator
until 1980. He was also the founding executive director of the American
Board of Family Psychology (now part of the American Board of Professional
Psychology) and holds an ABPP Diplomate in family psychology. He is a fel-
low of APA’s divisions of Family Psychology, Psychotherapy, Independent
Practice, Media Psychology, and Men and Masculinit y. He is also a fellow
and approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy. He is a charter member of the American Family Therapy
Academy on whose board he also serves. Dr. Lusterman is in private practice
in Baldwin, New York.
C. Haydee Mas, PhD, did her undergraduate work at the Universit y of
Michigan and her graduate st udies in clinical psychology at the Universit y
of Utah where she was chairperson of the graduate st udent minorit y com-
mittee. Her research interests and publications have focused on therapist-
client communication st yles, FF T process st udies, support systems in
abusive families, as well as family communication and attributional styles
in families with an adolescent. She is currently in private pract ice working
with couples and families with adolescents and children, and she conducts
therapy in Spanish with bilingual and bicult ural clients and fa milies.
Susan H. McDaniel,