Marriage and family therapy has gained credibility in the past decade and has now emerged as a viable treatment approach for most mental health problems. Stress may occur when a family or couple is unable to negotiate a developmental passage, such as the oldest child’s entrance into school, the onset of adolescence, or when a non• development crisis occurs, e.g., illness, disability in one of the children, unemployment or divorce. Our Marriage and family therapy focuses on the communication processes, power balances and imbalances, influence processes, structures for conflict resolution, and the current functioning of the family as a system. The goal is to effect change not only in an individual, but also in the family structure.