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Evan Imber-Black, PhD, is the Director of the
Center for Families and Health and a faculty member at the Ackerman
Institute for the Family in New York City. The Center for Families
and Health delivers training, consultation and systemic therapy
for families who have one or more members with a chronic or life-threatening
illness. Evan Imber-Black is also a Professor in the Department
of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the
Bronx.
Dr. Imber-Black is the editor of Family Process, the major scholarly
journal in family systems research and family therapy.
Previously, Dr. Imber-Black was the Director of the Family and Group Studies
Program, providing systemic training to psychiatric residents and Founder and
Director of the Urban Institute for Families and Family Therapy at Einstein. This
innovative institute provided family systems training for front-line mental health
workers who were called upon to see the most difficult family situations with no
training to do so. An institute without walls, the Urban Institute provided live
supervision in clinics and hospitals throughout the Bronx.
Before coming to New York, Dr. Imber-Black was the Director of
Training at the Family Therapy Program in the Department of Psychiatry
at the University of Calgary, and Director of the Family Therapy
Training Program in the School of Education at the University of
Massachusetts.
Dr. Imber-Black is a past president of the American Family Therapy Academy;
recipient of the 1990 American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy
Theory and Practice; and the 1999 recipient of the American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy Cumulative Contribution to Marriage and Family Therapy.
Throughout her internationally recognized career, Evan Imber-Black has made
major contributions in thematic areas that cut across different models of practice,
including Families and Larger Systems, Family Rituals and Family Secrets. She is the
author of over 50 original papers, and several books, including:
- The Secret Life of Families (Bantam, 1998)
- Secrets in Families and Family Therapy (WW Norton, 1993)
- Rituals for Our Times, co-authored with Janine Roberts (Jason Aronson, 1998)
- Rituals in Families and Family Therapy, co-edited with Janine Roberts and Richard Whiting (WW Norton, 1988,Second edition, 2003)
- Families and Larger Systems (Guilford Publications, 1988)
Married to Lascelles Black, MSW, Evan is most proud to be the grandmother of Josie, 7; Lo-Lo, 4; and Zane,
2, who have helped her to know that generativity is the core value she wishes to bring forth in her work and in her relationships.
eimberblack@ackerman.org
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