Diagnosis and assessment in family therapy / Howard A. Liddle -- A co-evolutionary framework for systemic family therapy / Lynn Hoffman -- Reflections on assessment in structural family therapy / H. Charles Fishman -- The family and public service systems / Evan Imber Coppersmith -- Family assessment in a problem oriented record / Karl Tomm and G.L. Sanders -- Diagnosing / Steve de Shazer -- The beginning family therapist and dilemmas in diagnosis / George S. Greenberg -- The live supervision form / Anthony W. Heath -- Ecological assessment / Bradford P. Keeney -- The diagnostician / Phoebe Prosky