Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner, is professor at the New York University School of Social Work and coordinator of their post-master's program in the treatment of alcohol and drug abusing clients. She is the author or editor of several books, including Clinical Work with Substance-Abusing Clients (1993) and Gender and Addictions: Men and Women in Treatment (1997).

Stephanie Brown is director of the Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California, and codirector of the Family Recovery Project at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. She is the author of Treating the Alcoholic (1985) and Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics (1988), the editor of Treating Alcoholism (1995), and a coauthor of The Alcoholic Family in Recovery (1999) and The Family Recovery Guide ( 2000).