This program examines some of the theoretical models therapist as well as researches use to study the family. Regardless of which of these models they use, family therapists and researchers work in a field that is not only personally gratifying, but makes a genuine difference in people's lives.

Series correlated to the text: Marriages and Families: Choices, Changes and Constraints, 6/e, by Nijole V. Benokraitis. 2007 ; "Episode #102."