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Winter 2010

Expanding Our Social Justice Practices: Advances in Theory and Training

Guest Editors: Jane Ariel, Ph.D., Pilar Hernanez-Wolfe, Ph.D. & Sarah M. Stearns, Ph.D.

Jane Ariel, Ph.D., Pilar Hernanez-Wolfe, Ph.D. & Sarah M. Stearns, Ph.D. - Editors' Preface

DeShaunta Johnson, M. Phil., Alba Cabral, Ph.D., Brian Mueller, M.A., Leora Trub, M. Phil., Jason Kruk, M. Phil., Emily Upshur, M. Phil., Laura Diaz, M.A., Letisha Marrero, Ph.D., Tanja auf der Heyde, M.A., MT-BC, Nate Thoma, M.A., Errol Rodriguez, Ph.D., Gabrielle Cione, B.A., & Peter Fraenkel, Ph.D. - Training in Intersectionality Sensitivity: A Community-Based Collaborative Approach

Sarah M. Stearns, Ph.D. & Edith Fraser, Ph.D. - Working with Affinity: The Journeys of White Students and Students of Color in Anti-racism Courses

Marsha Mirkin, Ph.D., Ivan Gonzalez, B.A., Mabel Valenzuela, B.S., Merryl Raubeson, B.S., Hafsa Lewis, B.S., & Marian Salama, B.A. - Hearing Student Voices: Developing Diversity Sensitivity and Humility on a College Campus

Jodie Kliman, Ph.D. - Intersections of Social Privilege and Marginalization: A Visual Teaching Tool

Jacqueline Hudak, M.Ed., Ph.D., & Shawn V. Giammattei, Ph.D. - Doing Family: Decentering Heteronormativity in "Marriage" and "Family" Therapy

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Winter 2009

Reflections of AFTA's Early Days: Moving Forward by Remembering Our Past

Guest Editors: Martha Adams Sullivan, D.S.W. & MaryAnna Domokos-Cheng Ham, Ed.D.

Martha Adams Sullivan, D.S.W. & MaryAnna Domokos-Cheng Ham, Ed.D. - Introduction: "Pick It Up If It Falls Behind"

Kitty LaPerriere, Ph.D. - Finding My Way into Family Therapy and AFTA

Linda G. Bell, Ph.D. - AFTA Memories

Karl M. Tomm, M.D. - AFTA: A Place for Generative Conversations

Jean P. Barr, M.S.S. - Reminiscences: Do They Relate to the Future?

Don-David Lusterman, Ph.D. - The Early Years

Rachel T. Hare-Mustin,  Ph.D. - A Memorale First AFTA Conference -  and More

Rosalind Edelstein, M.S.W. - Turning Points

Ira D. Glick, M.D. - Reflections on the Origins and Evolution of AFTA

Fred Sander, M.D. - My Dual Identity as a Family Therapist and Psychoanalyst

Jan Goldman, Psy.D. - An AFTA Journey: From Then Until Now

Hinda Winawer, M.S.W. - AFTA: Toward the Political Lens of a Systemic Clinician

Elaine B. Pinderhughes, M.S.W. - Painful Exclusion, Welcome Inclusion: A Charter Member's Experience of the Early Days

Betty F. Pristera, M.S.S., L.C.S.W. - In Remembrance

Frederic La Belle, B.A., M.F.A., N.R.C.G.P. - The Early Days: The Longest Road May Be the Best

Robert-Jay Green, Ph.D. - Turning 60 and Over Half My Life with  AFTA

Sally E. Miller, Ph.D. - Houstons's Influence on AFTA

Larry R. Allman, Ph.D. - Epistemology and Social Change

Catherine Ducommun-Nagy, M.D., L.M.F.T. - Too Late for Memories, Time for History

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Winter 2008

Neuroscience and Family Therapy: Integrations and Applications

Guest Editor: Martha E. Edwards, Ph.D. 

Martha E. Edwards, Ph.D.- From Neurons to Neighborhoods: An expanded Systems Framework for Family Therapy 

Gillian Walker, L.I.C.S.W. - Mind-Ecologies

Mona DeKoven Fishbane, Ph.D.- "News from Neuroscience": Applications to Couple Therapy,

Judith Landau, M.D., D.P.M., L.M.F.T., C.F.L.E., C.A.I., B.R.I.II & James Garrett, L.C.S.W., C.A.I., B.R.I. II. - Neurobiology and Addiction: Assisting the Family and Support System to Get Resistant Loved Ones Into Treatment

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Winter 2007

Systemic Responses to Disaster: Stories of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Guest Editor: John Sargent, M.D.

Elaine Pinderhughes, M.S.W. - Systemic Response to the Disaster of Katrina

Saliha Bava, Ph.D. & Sue Levin, Ph.D. - Collaborative Disaster Response: Setting Up Mental Health Services in a Mega-Shelter

Jerry Gale, Ph.D., David Trimble, Ph.D., Melissa Elliott, M.S.N., Julie Propst, M.F.T., & Louise Dillon, M.S.W. - Meta-Conversation on Crisis Response Work
Read articles on further meta-conversation.

Jane Ariel, Ph.D. - Voices Coming Through: A Collaborative Project Following Hurricane Katrina

M. Coleen Speed, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. & Samuel L. Speed, M.P.A. - Working with Katrina Evacuees from South Louisiana: Becoming Victors Instead of Victims

Lee Combrinck-Graham, M.D. - Mental Health in the Aftermath of Katrina and Rita

Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey, Ph.D. & Sarah Pulleyblank Patrick, M.S. - Reaching Across Disciplines to Discover Systemic Responses to Disaster

Katherine T. Volk, M.A., Kristina Konnath, L.I.C.S.W., & Ellen Bassuk, M.D. - Helping Children Heal After the Hurricanes: An Innovative Training Approach

Laurie L. Charlés, Ph.D. - Refugee or Displaced Person? What it Means to be an Exile Inside and Out of your National Borders

Paulette Hines, Ph.D., Joyce Mills, Ph.D., Robert Bonner, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., L.L.C., CharlesEtta Sutton, L.C.S.W., B.C.D., & Cherie Castellano, M.A., C.S.W., L.P.C. - Healing and Recovery After Trauma: A Disaster Response Program for First Responders

David Wohlsifer, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. - Book Review: Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper

Jack Saul, Ph.D. - Promoting Community Resilience in Lower Manhattan After September 11, 2001

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Summer 2006

Immigrant Families and Immigration: Therapeutic Work

Guest Editors: Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Ed.D. & Janine Roberts, Ed.D.

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Ed.D. & Janine Roberts, Ed.D. - Introduction: Immigrant Families and Immigration: Therapeutic Work

Jean Turner, Ph.D. & Alan Simmons, Ph.D. - Transnational Resilience: Key Concepts for Working with Refugees

Klara Ernyes & Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey, Ph.D. - Pushing Against the Stream: Building Community with Bosnian Refugees in Oakland, California

Judith Gómez de León del Río, MFT & Javier Vicencio Guzmán, M.D. - The Impact of Absence: Families, Migration, and Family Therapy in Ocotepec, Mexico

Herta Guttman, M.D. - Ways to Get Actively Involved: The Therapist as an Amnesty International Refnet Volunteer

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Winter 2005

Lessons Learned in Community Practice

Guest Editor: Ramón Rojano, M.D.

Ramón Rojano, M.D. - Family Therapists Keep Building Communities in the Global Village

Jeri Hepworth, Ph.D. - Is Caring for our Communities Enough? Moving Beyond the Do-Gooder to Maybe Doing Good

Marcelo Pakman, M.D. - Systemic Community Psychiatry

Peter Fraenkel, Ph.D. - Fresh Start for Families: A Collaboratively-Built Community-Based Program for Families that are Homeless

Beatriz Molina, M.S.W., Cielo de Cure, Carmen María de Salazar, Katia de Rosales, Silvia de Navarro, María Teresa de Sabbagh, María de Theran & Daisy Barros - Nuestra Casa [Our Home]: From the Family to the Community

Eleanor C. Nealy, M.Div., M.S.W. - We are not Alone: Making Connections in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities

Rosa Maria Stefanini de Macedo, Ph.D. - Constructing Empowerment and Resilience Contexts: Systemic Interventions in Communities

Madhubala Ishver Kasiram, Ph.D. & Emmerentie Oliphant, Ph.D. - Challenges and Changes to Family Therapy Practice in South Africa

Howard A. Liddle, Ed.D. - The Community Practice of Multidimensional Family Therapy: A Science-Based Treatment for Adolescent Drug Problems and Delinquency

Laura Roberto-Forman, Psy.D. - Afterword

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Summer 2005

Touched by War Zones, Near and Far: Oscillations of Despair and Hope

Guest Editor: Jodie Kliman, Ph.D.

Jodie Kliman, Ph.D. - Touched by War Zones, Near and Far: Oscillations of Despair and Hope: Introduction to the Monograph Series

Sanja Rolovic, Ph.D., Roxana Llerena-Quinn, Ph.D. - Reflections on Growing up in a War Zone: Understanding War and Building Peace

Yael Geron, Ph.D., Ruth Malkinson, Ph.D., Michal Shamai, Ph.D. - Families in the War Zone: Narratives of "Me" and "Other" in the Course of Therapy

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D. - Reflections on Families in the War Zone: Narratives of "Me" and "Other" in the Course of Therapy

Hugo Kamya, Ph.D. - The Impact of War on Children and Families: Their Stories, My Own Stories

Casi Kushel, M.S. - Obaid's Poem and Other Impressions of Afghanistan

Victoria Eugenia Acevedo, Psy.D. - Viajeros con Equipaje (Voyagers with Baggage): A Colombian View of Families in the War Zone

All Authors - Touched by War Zones: Dialogue and Shared Reflections

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