About the Author:

Mauro Mariotti, M.D., is a child psychiatrist, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. He is the former Director of the Departments of Child and Maternal Health of Reggio Emilia and Child Psychiatry of Modena. He was a professor at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He is the Director of Institute of Systemic and Relational Psychotherapy (ISCRA) of Modena and Cesena. He founded the international association of systemic mediation. He is the past president of Italians society of research and systemic therapy, founded by Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco cecchin. He is the author and editor of 12 books on psychotherapy, child psychology and psychiatry, and family and founder of the Journal Maieutica. He is a board member of the European Family Therapy Association. He was also a member of the Italian Society of Psychology and Relational Psychotherapy (SIPPR) research board for which he served as coordinator and as Secretary for 8 years during the Presidency of Gianfranco Cecchin.He served as secretary also for the European Society of Family Mediation and he is active as court expert on children and family matters.

George Saba, Ph.D., is a systemic family therapist and a clinical and counseling psychologist with a broad scope of research, training, and clinical interests in systemic and relational care. He has been a behavioral science faculty member in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, since 1983. For the past 30 years, he has served as the Director of Behavioral Sciences and the Associate Program Director at the Family and Community Medicine Residency. His clinical research has involved evaluating a systemic model of therapy for bulimia, substance use, chronic illness, and a relational oriented family medicine. His communication research has explored the physician-patient-family interaction in primary care. His educational research has included evaluating training models for systemic physicians, curriculum development and faculty development. He was the founding Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Psychology. He has developed a manual for the training of systemic physicians in a three-year family medicine residency program. He has served on numerous editorial boards, including Families, Systems and Health, Zeitschrifft Fur Systemische Therapie; Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies, and Journal of Families and Addictions and is an ad hoc reviewer for multiple journals. He was the lead editor of Minorities and Family Therapy, which was published as a special journal issue, a hardcover book, and a classroom text. He is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. He was awarded Endowed Chair of Community Medicine from 2006-2016; since 2016 he has held the Endowed Chair in Teaching Primary Care. He received UCSF's Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Medical Education in 2018 for his lifetime's work in the education of health care professionals.

Peter Stratton, BSc, Ph.D., Dip Psychotherapy, FBPsS., is a systemic family therapist and developmental psychologist with broad research interests and involvement in statutory processes that affect families. His research includes development of an outcome measure for families in therapy (the SCORE project); the effects of basing training on concepts of active learning and the dialogical construction of self; the relationships of humour and creativity during psychotherapy; attributional analyses of family causal beliefs and blaming; public attitudes to terrorism by combining attributional coding with metaphor analysis. Joint Editor of Human Systems: The Journal of Therapy, Consultation and Training; Joint Editor of the EFTA-Springer Book series; Chair of EFTA Research Committee and Relate Research Advisory Group. Recently: Academic and Research Development Officer for the Association for Family Therapy; Chair of the UKCP Research Faculty and a member of the CAMHS Outcomes and Evaluations, the CYP-IAPT Critical Friends. Founding Director of Leeds Family Therapy & Research Centre and Managing Director of The Psychology Business Ltd. He led the teams that developed the Leeds Attributional Coding System (LACS) and The Leeds Systemic Family Therapy Manual and chaired the UK Skills for Health team that developed the specification of the competences of systemic psychotherapists. In 2013, his contributions to psychotherapy research were recognised with an award by EFTA and an Honorary Fellowship of UKCP.