In a national questionnaire survey of graduate programs offering the Ph.D. or Psy.D. in clinical psychology, the status of family therapy training was examined. With a 79 per cent response rate (102 programs), the study found that 10 per cent of the nationwide faculty identified themselves as primarily family therapy oriented, 32 per cent of the programs had no family-oriented faculty members, 18 per cent of all psychotherapy courses were family therapy courses, and 21 per cent of the schools had no family therapy course. The ratings of the importance of providing students with family therapy training were found to be unrelated to the number of family therapy courses available but positively correlated with the percentage of family therapy courses within the total curriculum.

Determined the 10 cards deemed most valuable for a basic adolescent male short set in a study of 75 adolescent males, which included 25 11‐year‐olds, 25 14‐year‐olds, and 25 17‐year‐olds. The short set, based on the criterion of thematic frequency, included cards 4, 6BM, 3BM, 8BM, 10, 18BM, 15, 7BM, 1, and 13B. Differences were noted among this basic set and others previously reported for child, college and adult populations, which suggested that phase‐specific developmental components are reflected in normative TAT performance.