Sperry, Len . 'Assessment of Couples and Families: Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies'

Adolescence, Spring, 2005

SPERRY, Len (Ed.). Assessment of Couples and Families: Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2004. 284pp. $39.95 (h).

Assessment of Couples and Families brings together the major contemporary and cutting-edge assessment tools and strategies relevant to working with couples and families. It provides the reader with strategies for systematically utilizing these various inventories and observational methods as well as collateral information to address critical treatment issues and legal questions including premarital decisions, separation, divorce, mediation, family violence, and child custody. Compelling case material that illustrates assessment tools and strategies along with side-by-side summary profiles (matrices) that provide instant comparisons make this both a readable and easy-to-reference text.