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where he directed the behavioral sciences teaching program and edited the associated text, Medical Behavioral Science, now used at numerous medical schools. A member of the DSM-111 Task Force, his primary work has been in clinical research. Among his books are Modern Psychopathology, Theories of Psychopathology, and Research Methods in Psychopathology. CATHERINE GREEN is a recent PhD from Loyola University of Chicago. Her primary work has been in health research and the clinical counseling of the physically ill.

The procedures undergone to establish the validity of the Separation- Individuation Test of Adolescence (SITA) are described. The test consists of six scales designed to measure key dimensions of adolescent separation-individuation. Each scale was subjected to three stages of validation: theoretical-substantive, internal-structural, and external-criterion. The results of data with 305 adolescents are reported. Although particular modifications from the original form are planned, appreciative levels of validity were established for the SITA's various scales.

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