A multimethod approach was used to examine relations between marital violence, coparenting, and family-level processes and children's adjustment in a community-based sample of marital violence. Two hypotheses were tested, one in which family-level and co-parenting processes mediate relations between marital violence and child functioning and one in which marital violence and family-level/co-par...

As a counselor, family therapist, and teacher who works with family physicians and residents, I often get to observe what I believe is the essence, or soul, of family medicine – relationship. Unfortunately, as you probably know all too well, certain pressures in health care today seem to be putting the specialty at risk of losing its relational soul. What’s a family physician to do? Although yo...