American Family Therapy Academy

Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University where she teaches courses in family therapy, integrating gender and race/ethnicity, and qualitative research. She is a past president of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division of Family Psychology, and a former Chair of the APA Committee on Women in Psychology. In 2006, Dr. Silverstein received the Carolyn Attneave Award for Distinguished Contribution to Enhancing Diversity in Family Psychology from the APA Division of Family Psychology.

Dr. Silverstein is also the co-editor with Thelma Jean Goodrich (2003) of Feminist family therapy: Empowerment and social location, and is also and co-author with Carl Auerbach of Qualitative data. An introduction to coding and analysis (2003)
In 2000, the Association of Women in Psychology awarded Drs. Silverstein and Auerbach the Distinguished Publication Award for Deconstructing the Essential Father,” an article that emerged from their fathering research. In 2001, they also received the Distinguished Research Award for this project from the Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity in the American Psychological Association.