An Age of Promise & Provocation: Family Therapy Meets Social & Political Demands of the 21st Century
Speaker: Evan Imber-Black, PhD
Description: This talk will examine cultural changes in the past decade. I will especially focus on the impact of these changes on couples, families, and the larger systems with which we interact. I will discuss the power and influence of these profound shifts on our day-to-day lives, our thinking and actions, our therapy theories and practices, our teaching the next generation, our research agendas, and our writing in the pages of Family Process.
Speaker Bio:
Dr . Evan Imber -Black is a full Professor and Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY. She is the Director of the Center for Families and Health and a Senior Faculty Member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. She maintains a private practice in Couple and Family Therapy in New York City and Westchester County. Dr . Imber-Black was the editor of Family Process, the major scholarly journal in family systems research and family therapy from 2004-2012.
**Recorded at the Family Process 60th Anniversary Conference & Celebration, "The Heart of the Matter: Systemic Imperatives to Address Health Disparities and Racism in the Time of COVID."
24 SEP 2021, Washington, D.C.
