1. What's in this issue

   • William C. Nichols

   EditorialNotes Pages: 425 - 428

2. What is a family? a contemporary view

   • Lita Linzer Schwartz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 429 - 442

3. Husbands and wives

   • Scott Johnson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 458

4. Using Minuchin's structural family therapy techniques with Italian-American families

   • M. Elaine Yaccarino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 459 - 466

5. The degree of similarity of differentiation of self between partners in married and dating couples: Preliminary evidence

   • Suzanne E. Bartle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 467 - 484

6. Attributions related to wife abuse: A comparison of the perceptions of volunteer advocate-counselors and marriage and family therapists

   • Michael J. Sporakowski
   • A. Jay McKeel
   • Debra Madden-Derdich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 485 - 499

7. Announcement book review editor appointed

   Announcement Pages: 501 - 501