Upon completion of Chapter 10, you should be able to describe

• The principles associated with the major theories of marriage and family counseling;
• The evolution of marriage and family counseling;
• Systems theory and its relation to marriage and family counseling;
• How the family life cycle can be used to describe family dynamics;
• Assessment instruments and procedures used in marital assessment (including factors that predict divorce);
• Skill-based marriage counseling;
• Postmodern theories used in marriage and family counseling;
• Diversity issues such as gender, age, culture, and sexual orientation in marriage and family counseling; and
• Ethical-legal issues associated with marriage and family counseling.