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Anthony Chambers is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology, Core Faculty member of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program in the Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, and a Staff Licensed Clinical Psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.
Dr. Chambers received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University, and completed his M.A. & Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia (Department of Psychology). He completed his internship and post-doctoral clinical residency at Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital specializing in the treatment of couples. Dr. Chambers also completed a two-year post-graduate fellowship specializing in couple therapy at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. His clinical interests also include premarital counseling. Dr. Chambers has completed training and is an approved provider in two of the most comprehensive and well respected divorce-prevention/marriage enhancing programs in the world: PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) and PREPARE/ENRICH.
Dr. Chambers' passion, clinical, teaching, and scholarly interests all focus on strengthening the relationships of couples from all walks of life. Dr. Chambers is one of the faculty members teaching an exciting, innovative course at Northwestern University entitled "Marriage 101". Marriage 101 is a course taught to undergraduates about mate selection and the intricacies of committed, romantic relationships, especially marriage, with the ultimate goal of enhancing relationships and preventing problems.
Dr. Chambers is the recipient of numerous awards and is the author of several publications, grants, & presentations focused on couples' functioning. He was the principal investigator for a National Institutes of Health funded study examining fathers' reported relationship satisfaction and its impact on the transition into fatherhood. Dr. Chambers recently published an article in Family Relations delineating the unique factors that explain the disproportionately low marriage rate and high divorce rate among African American couples. He has also published articles and lectured on premarital couples, the transition to marriage, inter-racial couples, and the transition to parenthood. Finally, Dr. Chambers has several publications devoted to summarizing the science behind effective couple therapy, including a major article in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. In that article, Dr. Chambers and his co-authors not only reviewed the latest research on using couple therapy to treat common presenting problems such as communication, conflict, and infidelity, but were able to identify the core principles of change necessary for conducting effective couple therapy.
His professional activities include being a clinical supervisor for Northwestern graduate students in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program, serving on the board of directors for the Society of Family Psychology division of the American Psychological Association, being appointed to the American Psychological Association's Minority Fellowship Program's Initial Grant Review Committee, and being appointed to the American Psychological Foundation's Randy Gerson Family Systems grant review committee. Dr. Chambers also reviews manuscripts for several publications including the Journal of Marriage and Family, and serves on the editorial boards for academic journals including Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice.
Clinical Interests: Couples struggling with intimacy, communication, and conflict; infidelity and trust issues; premarital counseling; African American couples/marriages; inter-racial/ethnic couples and marriages; transition to parenthood; emerging adulthood; individual adults; fathers' & mens' issues; career planning
Location: Downtown Chicago, Evanston
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Counseling & Psychotherapy 
