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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 previous theoretical descriptions of feminist supervision. (Contains 32 references.) (Author/GCP)

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)

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 evaluation methods and discusses their applicability to the work of family therapists. (Author)

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 more frequently extreme on both ends of family cohesion and adaptability dimensions. (Author/NB)