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Norman B. Epstein, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Science in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. A clinical psychologist, he is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology. Dr. Epstein is a pioneer in the development of cognitive-behavioral therapy with couples and families. His research, teaching, and training of clinicians have focused on cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes in relationship adjustment and dysfunction; couple and family coping with stress; treatments for distressed couples and families; and culturally sensitive adaptations of Western-derived models of therapy. Dr. Epstein is author or editor of five previous books, has published over 100 journal articles andbook chapters, and has presented numerous research papers and training workshops nationally and internationally. He has served on editorial boards of leading journals and has maintained a clinical practice throughout his career. Mariana K. Falconier, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Master's Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she was Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Healthy Families, and Director of the Master's Program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Virginia Polytechnic and State University. Dr. Falconier is an approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Her research focuses on how couples cope with stress, primarily economic stress among low-income couples and immigration stress in Latinx couples. She developed TOGETHER, an evidence-based, interdisciplinary group program designed to help couples improve their communication, coping, and financial management skills; adapted the program to serve Latinx couples and LGBTQ couples; and has received federal funding to offer TOGETHER to various underserved communities, for which she received an Excellence in Professional/Clinical Practice Award from the National Council on Family Relations. Dr. Falconier has published and presented nationally and internationally.