Steadying the Tectonic Plates: On Being Spiritual, Feminist, and Professional

Special Session
Session ID#: 
321
Date: 
Friday, November 18, 2011
Time: 
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Session Location: 
Grand Ballroom B
Session Type: Special

About the Session

Presented by: Manijeh Daneshpour, Ph.D., LMFT, Professor and Coordinator of Marriage and Family Therapy Program at St. Cloud State University, MN, will focus on family therapy with Muslim families and men using a feminist perspective.

Froma Walsh, MSW, Ph.D., Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Chicago Center for Family Health and Professor Emerita, University of Chicago, will address ways to include spirituality in clinical practice to understand spiritual sources of distress and to tap spiritual resources for healing, recovery, and resilience.

Discussant is Tom Carlson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, North Dakota State University, and senior editor of the
Spirituality and Psychotherapy Book Series, Haworth Press.

Moderator is Marianne Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University.

Sponsored by Religion and Family Life, Family Therapy, Family Science, and
Ethnic Minorities Sections