Rituals in Families and Family Therapy

Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D., is the Editor of Family Process, the leading scholarly journal in Family Therapy; and Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Masters Program at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY. She is a senior faculty member and Director of the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, where she also has her private practice in Couple and Family Therapy. She is the author of 3 books and the editor of 2 books. Janine Roberts, Ed. D., is President of the American Family Therapy Academy and a professor and family therapist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy (Norton, 1994) and coauthor of Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (Jason Aronson, 1998). Richard A. Whiting, Ed.D., has been the Director of the Counseling Center at Springfield College, Springfield, MA, since 1970 and teaches as adjunct professor in Springfield College’s Marriage and Family Therapy masters program.

• Defining and designing rituals; rituals for couples, children, and adolescents; facilitating complex family processes through ritual; rituals, families, and the wider social context; rituals and family therapy training.