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This article presents an edited interview with David Olson, 1994 recipient of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy's Cumulative Contributions to Marriage and Family Therapy Research Award. Olson candidly discusses his early interest in marital assessment and comments on his pioneering contributions to family assessment, including The Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems, the PREPARE/ENRICH Inventories, and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (III, IV). Finally, he reflects on future research describing his current efforts to develop a Multiple Assessment of Health and Stress (MASH) model of evaluation as a means of responding to the growing demand for accountability by health care providers, corporations, and patients.

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David Olson: On Assessment and Families

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