“…Several studies have demonstrated the efficacy of admitting mothers and infants together, and others have hospitalized marital couples in order to treat both more intensively (15,23,32). During the past two decades, some mental health professionals have presented data about various aspects of family therapy with psychiatric inpatients (2,4,7,8,11,13,14,20,21,22,25,26,27,28,30,35). Nevertheless, most of the major theoreticians and practitioners in the field of family therapy use outpatient populations as their data base.…”