Thomas C. Todd is on the faculty of the Chicago Center for Family Health and is the former Chair of the Marriage and Family Therapy Department at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, USA. He is internationally known for his book with M. Duncan Stanton, The Family Therapy of Drug Abuse and Addiction (1982), and for Family Therapy Approaches with Adolescent Substance Abusers (1991). A longstanding member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) he has recently focused on international training, working with therapists and supervisors in Scandinavia, Brazil, and Romania.

Cheryl L. Storm is Professor Emerita and former Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy program, Pacific Lutheran University, USA. Her papers on education and supervision have appeared in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Journal of Systemic Therapies, Handbook of Clinical Issues in Couple Therapy, and Handbook of Family Therapy. In addition to teaching supervision courses for community supervisors in the USA, Canada and Mexico, she currently consults and does workshops on supervision in Asia.  She has been a longstanding and active member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).