John Steven Rolland


Publications: Books

Rolland, J.S., Families, Illness and Disability:  An Integrative Treatment Model
           New York:  Basic Books, 1994.
           (Book of the Month: Behavioral Science Book Service)
           (Nominated Book of the Year, American Medical Writers Association)
           (Translated into Spanish, German, Chinese)

Miller, S., McDaniel, S., Rolland, J, & Feetham, S. (Eds.).  Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genetics: Biopsychosocial Perspectives. New York: Norton (2006).


Publications: in Press or Under Review

Rolland, J.S. & Walsh, F. (2006, in press). Facilitating family resilience with childhood illness and disability. Current Opinion in Pediatrics.

Rolland, J.S. Genetics, family systems, and multicultural influences. Families, Systems & Health (in press).

Rolland, J.S.  Genetics and anticipatory loss: A family systems developmental framework (under review).


Publications: Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Rolland, J.S.  Facilitating family resilience with illness and disability: An integrative model.  In Welter-Enderlin, R. & Hildenbrand, B. (Eds.) Resilience: Thriving despite adversity. Carl Auer Publishing: Heidelberg, Germany, 2006.

Rolland, J.S. & Werner-Lin.  Families, health, and illness.  In S. Gehlert, & T. Arthur (Eds.) Handbook of Health Social Work.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2006.

Berman, E., Heru, A., Grunebaum, H., Rolland, J., Wood, B., & Bruty, H.(Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on the Family). Family skills for general psychiatry residents: Meeting ACGME core competency requirements. Academic Psychiatry, 30:69-78, 2006.

Rolland, J.S.  Cancer and the family: An integrative model. Cancer, vol 104, S11, 2584-2595, 2005.

Rolland, J.S. & Walsh, F.W. Systemic training for healthcare professionals: The Chicago Center for Family Health Approach. Family Process, vol 44, no 3, 283-301, 2005.

Rolland, J.S. & Williams, J. Toward a biopsychosocial model for 21st century genetics. Family Process, Vol 44, no 1, 3-24, 2005

Rolland, J.S.  Families and chronic illness: An integrative model.  In R. Catherall (Ed.), Handbook of the Family, Stress and Trauma.  American Psychological Association Press: Washington, DC, 2004.

Rolland, J.S. Helping families with anticipatory loss and terminal illness. In F. Walsh & M. McGoldrick, Eds., Living Beyond Loss, 2nd edition.  New York: Norton, 2004.

Rolland, J.S. Family legacies of the holocaust: My journey to recover the past.  In F. Walsh & M. McGoldrick, Eds., Living Beyond Loss, 2nd edition.  New York: Norton, 2004.

Rolland, J.S., Clinicians Personal and Interface Issues When Working with Illness.  In P. Hawkins, & J. Navarro Gongora (Eds.),  Psychosocial Interventions in Health Settings.  London, 2004.

Rolland, J.S., Mastering Family Challenges in Illness and Disability.  In F. Walsh (Ed.)  Normal Family Processes.  3rd Edition.  New York:  Guilford, 2003.

Weine, S.M., Feetham, S., Kuauzovic, Y., Besic, S, Lezic, A., Mujagic, A., Muzurovic, J., Spahovic, D., Shubi, M., Rolland, J., & Pavkovic, I.  Family interventions in a services framework with refugee communities.  In K. Miller & L. Rasco (Eds.), From Clinic to Community: Ecological Approaches to Refugee Mental Health.  Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers: Mahwah, NJ. 2003.

Weine, S.M., Raina, D., Zhubi, M., Delesi, M, Huseni, D., Feetham, S., Kulauzovic, Y., Mermelstein, R., Campbell, R., Rolland, J., Pavkovic, I.  The TAFES multi-group intervention for Kosovar refuges: A fesasibility study. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 191(2), 100-107. 2003

Rolland, J.S.  Managing chronic illness.  In M. Mengel, W. Holleman, & S. Fields (Eds.), Fundamentals of Clinical Practice: A Textbook on the Patient, Doctor and Society, 2nd Edition.  New York: Plenum Publishing.  2002

Rolland, J. S.  Illness and disability in the family: An integrative treatment model.  In  F. Kroger & A. Hendrischke (Eds.), Family, System and Health: Systemic Core Concepts for a Social Health Care System.  Germany: Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag. 2000.

Rolland, J.  El Control de los Desafios Familiares en las Enfermedades Serias y en la Discapacidad.  In J. Navarro Gongora (Ed.).  Spain: University of Salamanca Press, 1999.   

Perry, A. & Rolland, J.,  Spirituality Expressed in Community Action and Social Justice: A Therapeutic Means to Liberation and Hope.  In F. Walsh (Ed.), Spirituality Resources in Families and Family Therapy.  New York: Guilford, 1999.

Rolland, J. Families and parental illness: A conceptual framework.  Journal of Family Therapy. Vol 21, no 3, 242-267, 1999

Rolland, J.S.  Families and genetic fate: A millennial challenge.  Families, Systems, & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family Healthcare. Vol 16, no 1, 123-133, 1999.

Lebow, J., Walsh, F., & Rolland, J., The remarriage family in custody evaluation.  In R. Galatzer-Levy & L. Kraus (Eds.), The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions. New York: Wiley. 1999.

Rolland, J.S. Beliefs and Collaboration in Illness: Evolution over time.  Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family HealthCare.  vol 16, no 1, 7-25, 1998.

Rolland, J.S. Chronic Illness and the Family Life Cycle.  In E. Carter & M. McGoldrick (Eds.), The Evolving Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives. 3rd edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Rolland, J.S., The meaning of disability and suffering: Socio-political and ethical concerns.  Family Process, vol 36, no 4, 437-440, 1997.

Rolland, J.S., Managing Chronic Illness.  In M. Mengel, & S. Fields (Eds.), Introduction to Clinical Skills: A Patient-Centered Textbook. New York: Plenum Publishing, 1997.

Rolland, J.S., Illness in Young Adulthood.  In  S. McDaniel, J. Hepworth, & W. Doherty, The Shared Experience of Illness: Stories of Patients, Families, and their Therapists. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Rolland, J.S., & Walsh, F., Family Therapy: Systems Approaches to Assessment and Treatment.  In R.E. Hales, S. Yudofsky, & J. Talbott (Eds.) Synopsis of Psychiatry.  Philadelphia: American Psychiatric Press, 1996.

Ooms, T., Rolland, J., Mintz, S, & Doppelt, L., Families and the collaborative process. Family Systems Medicine, vol 13, no 3&4, 299-313, 1996.

Rolland, J.S., & Walsh, F., Family Therapy:  Systems Approaches to Assessment and Treatment.  In R.E. Hales, S. Yudofsky, & J. Talbott (Eds.)  American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry.  2nd Edition.  Philadelphia:  American Psychiatric Press.  1994.

Rolland, J.S.,  In sickness and in health:  The impact of illness on couple's relationship.  Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. vol  20, no 4, 327-349, 1994.

Rolland, J.S., Working with illness:  Clinicians' personal and interface issues.  Family Systems Medicine, vol 12, no 2, 149-171, 1994.

Rolland, J.S., Families and Health Crisis.  In Elliott, B. (Ed.)  Vision 2010:  Families and Health Care.  Minneapolis:  National Council on Family Relations.  1994.

Rolland, J.S., Mastering Family Challenges:  Coping with Serious Illness and Disability.  In F. Walsh (Ed.)  Normal Family Processes.  2nd Edition.  New York:  Guilford.  1993.

Rolland, J.S., Family Impact of Illness and Disability.  In R.E. Rakel (Ed.)  Essentials of Family Practice.  First Edition.  Philadelphia:  W.B. Saunders.  1993.

Rolland, J.S., Anticipatory Loss:  Living with the Dying.  In F. Walsh & M. McGoldrick (Eds.)  Death and the Family:   Living Beyond Loss.  New York:  W.W. Norton.  1991.

Rolland, J.S., Anticipatory Loss:  A Family Systems Developmental Framework.  Psychotherapeutisch Paspoort, 3:  no 2, 2.51-2. 80, 1991.

Rolland, J.S., Anticipatory Loss:  A Family Systems Developmental Framework.  Family Process, vol 29, no 3, 229-244, 1990.

Rolland, J.S., The Impact of Illness on Families.  In R.E. Rakel (Ed.)  Textbook of Family Practice.  Fourth Edition.  Philadelphia:  W.B. Saunders.  1990.

Tiblier, K.B., Walker, G., & Rolland, J.S., Therapeutic issues when working with families of persons with AIDS.  Marriage and Family Review, special issue on AIDS and families, vol 13, no 1/2, 81-129, 1989.
           (Also printed in hardbound copy in E. Macklin (ed), AIDS and Families, New York:  Haworth Press.  1989).

Rolland, J.S., Chronic illness and the life cycle.  In E.A. Carter & M. McGoldrick (Eds.)  The Family Life Cycle:  A Framework for Family Therapy.  Second edition.  New York:  Gardner Press.  1988.

Rolland, J.S., A conceptual model of chronic and life threatening illness and its impact on the family.  In C. Chilman, E. Nunnally & F. Cox (eds.)  Chronic Illness and Disability:  Families in Trouble  Beverly Hills:  Sage Publications.  1988.

Rolland, J.S., Chronic illness and the life cycle:  A conceptual framework.   Family Process, vol 26, no 2, 203-221, 1987.

Rolland, J.S., Family illness paradigms:  Evolution and significance.  Family Systems Medicine, vol 5, no 4, 482-503, 1987.

Rolland, J.S., Family systems and chronic illness:  A typological model.  Journal of Psychotherapy and the Family, vol 3,no 3, 143-168, 1987.  (Also printed in hardbound copy in F. Walsh and C. Anderson (eds.) Chronic Disorders and the Family, New York: Haworth Press, 1988).

Rolland, J.S., Chronic Illness and the Family:  An Overview.  In Wright, L.H., and Leahy, M. (Eds.), Families and Chronic Illness.  Pennsylvania:  Springhouse, 1987.

Rolland, J.S., Triangulation, Fear, and Uncertainty in Treating an AIDS Patient.  In Doherty, W.J., and Baird, M.A. (Eds.)  Cases in Family Centered Medical Care.  Guilford:  New York.  1987.

Rolland, J.S.:  Toward a Psychosocial Typology of Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness.  Family Systems Medicine, vol 3, no 2, 245-262, 1984.

Rolland, J.S.:  Future Issues:  New Indications for the Dependent Variable.  In Further Explorations in Social Psychiatry.  Eds., Berton H., Kaplan, Robert N. Wilson, Alexander Leighton, New York:  Basic Books, Inc. 1976.

Rolland, J.S., Bruneau, W., Johnson, R.:  With Patient in Mind:  A Study of the Eric Lindemann Mental Health Center.  EDRA-5 (Environmental Design Research Association )  Annual proceedings. 1975.


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