Recent studies suggest that clinicians' hesitation to use family intervention may be related to concerns about the experience and training required to become a therapist (8,9) and the extent to which the family intervention is connected to routine care. In addition, most family intervention studies have focused on Caucasian populations; few studies have included Hispanic and Asian participants (9,10). Thus it is unclear whether interventions that are accepted practice in Western countries can be applied successfully to a Chinese family-oriented culture.