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Provides detailed guidelines for talking about issues and resolving problems with a minimum of conflict. Offers practical, research-based strategies for teaching sexual responsibility, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, and improving school performance. Shows how to improve communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills; set up family meetings; and reduce the impact of negative emotions on the family.

Marion S. Forgatch, Ph.D., is a senior scientist and principal investigator at the Oregon Social Leaning Center in eugene, where she has assumed a major role in dissemination research. The focus of this new area of study is on adapting parent-management training strategies to mental health delivery systems. Dr. Forgatch has also designed and tested intervention programs for single mothers and stepparent families. Gerald R. Patterson, Ph.D, is the founder of the Oregon Social Learning Center, where he continues his distinguished career as a research scientist and principal investigator. He has devoted more than 40 years to the study of processes that disrupt family functioning and the development of a data-based theory, know as "coercion theory," that explains these processes. Dr. Patterson has published numerous scientific articles, book chapters, and is the author of two other best-selling parenting manuals: Living with Children and Families.