CCF
Experts
Current
board members with their e-addresses:
Etiony
Aldorando etiony@MIAMI.EDU
Rhea
Almeida RheaAlmeid@AOL.COM
Pauline
Boss pboss@CHE.UMN.EDU
Rena
Cornell rcornel@SA.NCSU.EDU
Frank
Furstenberg fff@SSC.UPENN.EDU
Janet Gornick janet_gornick@BARUCH.CUNY.EDU
Pilar Hernandez phernand@MAIL.SDSU.EDU
Waldo Johnson wejohnso@UCHICAGO.EDU
Larry McCallum PSmccallum@AUGUSTANA.EDU
Steven
Mintz hist4@CENTRAL.UH.EDU
Mignon Moore mm1664@COLUMBIA.EDU
Julie Noveske jnoves1@UIC.EDU
Lynn Parker lparker@DU.EDU
Karen Struening Karen.struening@VERIZON.NET
Wilma
Peebles Wilkins wpeebles@BU.EDU
Steven
Wisensale steven.wisensale@UCONN.EDU
Steven
Wisensale wisensal@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU
Director,
Divorce and Remarriage Consulting Associates
(858)
274-8943 (phone)
(858) 274-5185 (fax)
www.constanceahrons.com
My research, teaching, writing, lecturing and clinical work has been
dedicated to the study of divorce, remarriage and family change. We're
Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents' Divorce is
based on in-depth interviews with 173 grown children whose parents divorced
over 20 years ago. Some of the most surprising findings:
Most well-known books:
The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family
Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart
We’re Still Family: What Grown
Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorce.
Both books are published by HarperCollins
Publishers.
Rhea V. Almeida – LCSW, Ph.D.
Institute for Family Services
(732) 873-0744
(732) 873-1663
(732) 873-2926 (fax)
www.Instituteforfamilyservices.com
My work is focused on the clinical/programmatic issues of gender
across cultures, masculinities including men as partners, lovers, sons and
fathers, domestic violence: victims, perpetrators and their children, South Asian families, and the mentoring and
teaching of family therapy/social work students.
Almeida, R. (1994). Expansions
of feminist family theory through diversity, Haworth Press:
Almeida, R. (1998). Transformations of gender and race: Family and developmental
perspectives,
Upcoming book "Transformative
Family Therapy: Just Families in a Just Society", Almeida, R. Parker, L.,
& Dolan-Delvecchio, K. Boston, MA:
Allyn & Bacon.
Almeida, R. , & Bograd, M. (1990). Sponsorship: Men holding
men accountable for domestic violence. Journal
of Feminist Family Therapy, 25, 243-256.
(617)
287-7631
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gonazlo_bacigalupe/
Associate
Professor and Director of the Family Therapy Program, Graduate College of
Education, University of Massachusetts Boston; Associate Research Professor,
Family Medicine & Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical
School; Invited Professor Psychotherapeutic Interventions Master-Degree, School
of Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Madrid,
Spain; Faculty Research Associate Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino
Community Development and Public Policy.
As
a research associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine and
Community Health, my current area of research addresses health care barriers
and strategies to cope with them among patients in primary care settings.
Present research addresses medication and literacy among Latino elderly and
patients’ concerns about chronic pain treatment. This is research that has been
funded by the National Institute of Aging, Agency of Healthcare Research
Quality, and CMMS.
I
also am a clinician and family therapy professor who specializes in the
challenges that intercultural couples face.
Most
relevant references:
Bacigalupe,
G. (2003). “Intercultural therapy with Latino immigrants and White partners:
Crossing borders coupling”. Journal of Couples and Relationship Therapy,
2 (4), 131-149.
Bacigalupe,
G. (2002). “Is balancing family and work a sustainable metaphor?” Journal of
Feminist Family Therapy, 13 (2/3), 5-20.
Rosalind
Chait Barnett, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Community,
Families and Camp; Work Program
(781)
736-2287
My current area of research is the
relationship between work schedules and health and quality-of-life outcomes,
the relationship between parental after-school stress and parents'
psychological well-being and job productivity, gender differences in social and
cognitive behaviors, and parent-adult children relationships. I am currently
conducting research on the mismatch between the work schedules of parents, the
school schedules of their children, the schedules of such community resources
as transportation and after-school care and the impact of maternal day versus evening
shift work on the socioemotional well-being of their school-age children (8-13
years of age). I can also address questions having to do
with gender differences.
Most well-known books:
Barnett,
R. C. & Rivers, C. (2004). Same difference: How gender myths are hurting
our relationships, our children, and our jobs.
Barnett,
R. C., & Rivers, C. (1998). She works/he works: How two-income families
are happier, healthier and better off.
Barnett,
R. C., Gareis, K. C., & Brennan, R. T. (1999). “Fit as a mediator of the
relationship between work hours and burnout.” Journal of Occupational Health
Psychology, 4(4), 307-317.
Barnett,
R. C., & Gareis, K. C. (2002). “Full-time and reduced-hours work schedules
and marital quality: A study of women physicians with young children.” Work
and Occupations, 29, 364-379. (Paper nominated for the 2003 Rosabeth Moss
Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.)
Barbara Bergmann,
Professor Emerita of Economics
5430 41 Place NW
(202) 537-3036 (phone)
Barbara R. Bergmann writes on economic and social
policy--on discrimination, affirmative action, child care, Social
Security. She is Professor Emerita of Economics at the
Her previous books include:
America’s Child
Care Problem: The Way Out,
(Palgrave) written in collaboration with Suzanne Helburn.
Is Social Security Broke?: a Cartoon Guide to the Issues (
Saving Our Children From Poverty: What the
The Economic Emergence of Women (Basic Books)
Anne C. Bernstein, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology
The Wright Institute
(510) 549-0598
I am a family psychologist and mediator, a
professor at The Wright Institute, a doctoral program in psychology, and an
assistant clinical professor of psychology at the
I have been teaching family therapy for 30
years. My research and writing has been primarily in the area of
stepfamilies, family and couple therapy, children's experience of family
diversity, and their cognition about sex and family formation. My clinical
practice has focused on couples and on family diversity, including
stepfamilies, families formed through adoption or collaborative reproduction,
and gay and lesbian couples and their families.
Most relevant publications:
Books:
Flight of the Stork: How children think (and when)
about sex and family building,
Yours, mine, and
ours: How families change when
remarried parents have a child together, W. W. Norton, 1990.
Chapters/articles:
“Re-visioning,
Restructuring and Reconciliation: Clinical Practice with Complex Post-divorce
Families.” Family Process, 45(3).
(2006)
"Straight therapists
working with lesbians and gays in family therapy." Journal of
Marital and Family Therapy. 26(3), pp.
461-473. (2000)
Karen Blaisure, Ph.D., Professor
Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences
1903
Kalamazoo,
MI 49008-5322
karen.blaisure@wmich.edu
(269) 387-3663
My current work continues to be on interventions
for separating and divorcing parents and their families. See Blaisure, K. R.,
& Geasler, M. J. (expected publication date second half 2005). “Educational
interventions for separating and divorcing parents,” in M. A. Fine & J.
H.
Also, I am a family life educator and family therapist
and offer educational programs for couples interested in improving their
communication and conflict-management/resolution skills, or maintaining
their feelings of closeness.
In a 2003 report completed during an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy in
the
Other relevant articles:
Blaisure, K. R., & Geasler, M. J. (March 2000). “Clinical update: children
and divorce.” Published by the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy, 2(2).
Geasler, M. J., & Blaisure, K. R. (1999). “1998
nationwide survey of court-connected divorce education programs.” Family and
Conciliation Courts Review, 37, 36-63.
Dept.
of Sociology
(517)
355-6632
I
specialize in studies of gender, work, and family in rural
Most
important books and articles:
Booth,
Cheryl, Shruti Vaidya, Patricia Farrell, Janet Bokemeier. (2003) "Families
and Communities Together (FACT) Coalition: Evolution of a University-Wide
Engagement Model". Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.
8(1)
Struthers,
Cynthia and Janet Bokemeier. (2000) "Myths and Realities of Raising
Children and Creating Family Life in a Rural County." Journal of Family
Issues. 21 (1): 17-46.
Hardesty,
Constance and Janet Bokemeier. (1989) "Finding Time and Making Do: The
Distribution of Household Labor in Nonmetropolitan Marriages." Journal
of Marriage and the Family, 51(1): 253-267.
(651)
343-7260 (cell)
(651)
644-3024 (home office)
(612)
625-0291 (university office)
My
research and clinical focus is on families where a loved one is missing either
physically or psychologically.
I call this type of unclear loss, ambiguous loss. The cause may be
man-made and natural disasters which lead to physical disappearance--or
psychological disappearance from illnesses or addictions that take the mind
away. In either case, it is the stress of ambiguity that traumatizes and
immobilizes
people left behind. Ambiguous loss is a major cause of trauma and stress
for individuals, couples and families, and often is an underlying cause of
other stress. Traditional grief and trauma therapies are insufficient. To lower
stress, special interventions are needed for ambiguous loss that avoid seeking
closure, since there is none.
Most
important books, articles, or awards:
Ambiguous
Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief,
Loss, Trauma
and Resilience, Norton
Press, 2006
Family
Stress Management (2003) Sage.
2
Humanitarian Awards for working with families of the missing after 9/11; Ernest
Burgess Award for Research and Theory Development that strengthens families
Sam Bradley, Ph.D.,
Clinical Psychologist
360-754-8467
dr_bradley2000@yahoo.com
Staff aide to U.S.
Senator, Washington, D. C. while completing BA in English Lit, and MA in Speech
Communication at the
Faculty, Senior
Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Now in private
practice in clinical psychology in
Publications:
Bradley, Sam. The Happy Husband: A Guy’s Guide to Marital
Success. (Publication forthcoming).
Scott
Browning, Ph.D., Professor
Interim-Chair
(
(215)
248-7149
Stepfamilies
remain my primary topic of interest. As a long term board member of the
Stepfamily Association of America, I have taken seriously the need to train
therapists in understanding the nuances of treatment with this
population. I am currently writing a book entitled Stepfamily Therapy.
In
addition to stepfamilies, I certainly have an interest in the diverse family,
as both an academic and a clinician. Rounding out my main interests are 1)
the creation of families for role-play and increased empathy and 2) increasing
the social skills of those with high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome.
Most
important books, articles, or awards:
Browning,
S. & Collins, J. & Nelson, B. (2005, In Print). “Creating
families: A teaching technique for clinical training.” Marriage
& Family Review.
Browning,
S. & R. J. Green (2003). “Constructing therapy: From strategic, to
systemic, to narrative models.” In G. P. Sholevar (Ed.) Textbook of family
and couples therapy.
Browning,
S. (1998). “The empathy expansion procedure: A method of helping couples deal
with traumatic incidents.” In L. L. Hecker & S. A. Deacon (Eds.) The
Therapist's Notebook.
Browning,
S. (1994). “Treating stepfamilies: Putting family therapy into perspective.” In
K. Pasley & M. Ihinger-Tallman (Eds.) Remarriage & Stepparenting:
Current research & theory. (pp.94-104).
Recipient
of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching-2003
(410) 516-2370
My current areas of research include (1) the consequences of welfare reform for
low-income children and families, including children's well-being and marriage
and family patterns; (2) changing patterns of marriage and cohabitation in the
In another article, I assessed the current status and likely future of marriage
in the
Family 66: 848-861.
Most well-known books, articles,
support work for families:
Divided Families
155
Hamilton Hall CB#3210
(919)
843-4791 (Sociology office)
(919)
966-7481 (
In recent research, I have studied who cares for children with disabilities, and the impact of that carework on gender inequality. Children with disabilities are even more likely to live under the care of women than are children in general. This has particular effects on single mothers, who are much less likely to have jobs when they have a child with a disability (or have a disability themselves). Therefore, unless the state or the market can step in to help, the extra care required for children with disabilities has the potential to exacerbate gender inequality. I also study gender inequality more broadly, including labor markets and the household division of labor; and household composition, including cohabitation and extended households.
Well
known books, articles, etc.:
Cohen,
Philip N. 2004. “The Gender Division of Labor: ‘Keeping House` and Occupational
Segregation in the
Philip
N. Cohen and Danielle MacCartney. 2003. “Inequality and the Family.” In
Jacqueline L. Scott, J. K. Treas and M. Richards (eds.), The Blackwell
Companion to Sociology of Families.
Jeanne
A. Batalova and Philip N. Cohen. 2002. “Premarital Cohabitation and Housework:
Couples in Cross-National Perspective.” Journal of Marriage and Family
64(3):743-755.
Cohen,
Philip N. and Lynne M. Casper. 2002. “In Whose Home: Multigenerational Families
in the United States, 1998-2000.” Sociological Perspectives 45(1):1-20.
(510) 547-6500 (pst)
In my most recent book, The Lazy
Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework, I look at ways
to address the common problem of the unequal division of household labor. My
research for this book as well as my clinical experience has made me
well-versed in the academic and practical debates in this arena.
My first book, The Marriage Makeover (originally titled Imperfect
Harmony for the hardback) addressed the issue of how to remain in a
marriage with children that one might leave if childless. I can address
questions having to do with child well-being in a low satisfaction marriage,
research on the effects of divorce on children, and the causes of divorce.
I have extensive expertise in the area
of infertility, and conduct infertility counseling, evaluations of ovum donors,
sperm donors, surrogates, and gestational carriers. I also provide yearly
workshops for Resolve, a non-profit organization offering education and support
for people struggling with infertility.
Books:
The Marriage Makeover: Finding
Happiness in Imperfect Harmony
The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do
More Parenting and Housework, both with
(951) 827-2443
Scott Coltrane is a sociologist whose
research focuses on families, gender, and social policy. He is an expert on
housework and parenting, with special emphasis on fathers, shared parenting,
and variations in family patterns across different ethnic groups. His most
recent NIMH-funded research projects investigate the impact of economic stress
and the meaning of fatherhood and step-fatherhood in Mexican American and
European American families. This research shows how Mexican American families
and European American families in southern
Most well-known books, articles, support work for families:
Family Man: Fatherhood Housework and
Gender Equity
Scott Coltrane. 2004. “Fathering:
Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas.” In M. Coleman and L. Ganong
(Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past,
Contemplating the Future.
Council
on Contemporary Families
The
Evergreen
(360) 352-8117
(360) 556-9223 (cell)
I have just completed
a five year research project on the history of marriage and the world historic
transformation that has occurred in the past 30 years, changing almost
everything we used to think we knew about who marries, who doesn't, and
how marriage works. I can also discuss historical myths about family life
and marriage and put contemporary debates over marriage promotion, divorce
reform, same-sex marriage, and contemporary family trends in historical
perspective.
Most well-known books, articles and awards:
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy,
or How Love Conquered Marriage (Viking, May
2005)
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the
Nostalgia Trap (Basic Books, 1992, 2000)
The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with
American Families: A Multicultural Reader
(Routledge, 1999)
2000 – Council on Contemporary
Families “Visionary Leadership” Award; 1995 – American Pediatric Association Award for “Outstanding
Contributions to Child Development”
Dept.
of Sociology
323
Uris Hall
(607)
255-1697
(607)
255-8473 (fax)
Correll
is an expert on gender differences in taking math and science classes. She has
several papers showing that cultural beliefs that men are better affect
individuals' assessments of their own competence and cause women to be less
likely to take math courses than men with the same test scores as them. Also,
among girls and boys with the same test scores, the males tend to have higher
confidence in their skills than females. Correll is also doing research showing
that for high level jobs, people respond differently to resumes of women if
they mention having small kids even when other accomplishments are the same.
* Carolyn
Pape Cowan and Philip A. Cowan, Professor of Psychology, Emerita, and Professor
of Psychology, Emeritus
Dept. of Psychology
2205 Tolman Hall - #1650
(510) 643-5608
(office)
We are completing a longitudinal preventive
intervention study of 100 families, following them from the first child's
transition to elementary school through late high school. The intervention we
evaluated in this study was a group for couples with clinically trained leaders
who met with small groups of parents every week for 16 weeks to help them
strengthen their relationships -- as a couple and with their children as the
children entered school.
We found that working with men and women on their marital and parenting dilemmas
enhanced their relationships as a couple and with their children. The children
reaped the benefits in terms of greater social and academic success and fewer
problem behaviors at school from kindergarten through grade 9 in high school.
A book describing the transition to elementary school phase and the effects of
the couples’ intervention was released by Erlbaum Associates in April 2005: The Family Context of Parenting in
Children's Transition to Elementary School.
We are now applying these strategies to help parents in low-income families
with their couple relationships - to
enhance the involvement of low income fathers with their young children (sponsored
by the California Office of Child Abuse Prevention) and to strengthen the
relationships of low-income married couples (in a national U.S. project).
Most well-known books, grants and awards:
Book:
When Partners Become Parents: the Big Life Change for Couples,
Erlbaum Associates, 2000 (translated into 5 languages)
Grants
from National Institute of Mental Health (continuously since 1979) have supported
two longitudinal preventive intervention studies examining the effects of (i) couple
relationships on children's adaptation, and (ii) the intervention for couples -
during the transition to parenthood and the transition to school
Award:
Ann Crittenden, author, lecturer
ann.crittenden@rcn.com
(202) 362-3419
My best-known area of
research is the economic disadvantages incurred by people who assume the role
of primary caregiver in the family. In a current book I present data on the
leadership/management lessons and transferable skills learned by those who care
for children and other family members. Perhaps the most
surprising/interesting/significant finding is the fact that the literature on
effective management and the literature on effective parenting is almost
exactly the same. I can also address
questions having to do with work-family conflict (and synergy), the effects of
Social Security "reform" on women.
Most well-known books:
The
Price of Motherhood
If
You’ve Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything
Robert
Drago, Professor of Labor Studies and Women’s Studies LSIR & WS
133 Willard Building
drago@psu.edu
http://lsir.la.psu.edu/workfam/drago.htm
(814) 865-0751
(814) 863-3578 (fax)
President-elect, 2006, College and
University Work-Family Association (www.cuwfa.org)
Most of my research concerns biases against caregiving in colleges and
universities, and faculty responses to these biases. I am also a co-founder of
the Take Care Net, an organization addressing public policy needs around care (www.takecarenet.org),
recently completed an NCAA sponsored project addressing the decline of women in
the coaching of women's intercollegiate athletic teams, and study general
trends affecting the work-family interface.
Most well-known books, articles:
"The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving Among
Faculty," Academe (Sept-Oct 2005), R. Drago, C. Colbeck, D. Stauffer, A.
Varner, K. Burkum, J. Fazioli, G. Guzman and T. Habasevich.
"The Willingness-to-pay for Work/Family Policies: A Study of
Teachers," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 55 (October
2001), 22-41. R. Drago, D. Costanza, R. Caplan, T. Brubaker, D. Cloud, N.
Harris, R. Kashian & T.L. Riggs (Nominated for 2002 Kanter Award for
Excellence in Work-Family
Research).
"A Half-Time Tenure Track Proposal," Change: The Magazine of
Higher Learning, Vol. 32 (November/December 2000), 46-51. R. Drago & J.
Williams.
"New Estimates of Working Time for Teachers", (pdf file) Monthly
Labor Review, Vol. 122 (April 1999), 31-41, R. Drago, R. Caplan, D.
Costanza, T. Brubaker, D. Cloud, N. Harris, R. Kashian & T.L. Riggs.