A Section of the Commissioned Report by the Committee on Health and Behavior

Research, Practice, and Policy Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health and Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

WEIHS, KAREN M.D.
FISHER, LARRY Ph.D.
BAIRD, MACARAN M.D.

¹Center for Family Research
²Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
³Mayo Management Services, Inc.

Karen Weihs, M.D., Center for Family Research, Ross Hall, Room 612B, 2300 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037; (202) 994-2408; email: [email protected]

Larry Fisher, Ph.D., Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

Macaran Baird, M.D., Medical Director, Mayo Management Services, Inc. (MMSI), 4001 41st Street, N.W., Rochester, MN 55901.

The authors wrote this report in collaboration with the National Working Group on Family-Based Interventions in Chronic Disease.

In addition to the authors, members of the National Working Group on Family Based Interventions in Chronic Disease are: Barbara Anderson, Ph.D., Macaran A. Baird, M.D., Janice Bell, RN, DNSc, Thomas Campbell, M.D., Catherine A. Chesla, RN, DNSc, Frank deGruy, M.D., Perry Dickenson, M.D., Ann Garwick, Ph.D., Catherine L. Gilliss, RN, DNSc, Darryl Goetz, Ph.D., Ronald Goldschmidt, M.D., George Howe, Ph.D., Nadine Kaslow, Ph.D., Ann Kazak, Ph.D., Morton A. Lieberman, Ph.D., Mary Mittelman, Ph.D., Susan McDaniel, Ph.D., Joan Patterson, Ph.D., Donald Ransom, Ph.D., John Rolland, M.D., David Reiss, M.D., Cleveland Shields, Ph.D., Peter Steinglass, M.D., Frank Wamboldt, M.D., Marianne Wamboldt, M.D., Beatrice Wood, Ph.D., Lyman Wynne, M.D.

Supported by The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health; and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Family Systems Medicine 20(1):p 7-46, Spring 2002. | DOI: 10.1037/h0089481