Updates & Announcements

Eric Beeson, Ph.D., LCP, core faculty member in the Counseling@Northwestern program at The Family Institute, has recently been awarded the prestigious NCACES Research Award by the North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.  

The American Psychological Association is presenting awards this year to three psychologists at The Family Institute, Erika Lawrence, Gihane Jérémie-Brink and Anthony Chambers, in recognition of excellence in research, scholarship and service to the field.

Anthony Chambers and Danielle Black co-authored an article about difficulties of training at the postdoctoral level in the July 2018 issue of The Family Psychologist.

The field of behavioral health is, in many ways, playing catch up to the rest of healthcare when it comes to tracking and reporting outcome measures. The Family Institute continues to take a leadership role in the movement toward evidence-based care and through the strength of our scientist-practitioner model.

Up to 20% of pregnant and new mothers experience some form of maternal mental health disorder — that’s over 600,000 women every year. One in seven new mothers experience postpartum depression. This month, listen to our Transitions to Parenthood program director, Nikki Lively, as she interviews moms, dads and specialists about the postpartum life stage in “Let’s Talk,” The Family Institute’s podcast series.

Over the past decade, empirical feedback has emerged as a key area of focus for improving clinical outcomes in psychotherapy. Empirical feedback systems collect data from clients and feed it back to therapists to aid in decision making in therapy. The Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change is the first systemic feedback system — the first tool to assess change across multiple relationships and multiple domains of functioning, so it can be used in individual, couple and family…

Focusing directly on the concerns that families, couples and individuals bring to therapy, Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) values client participation in planning therapy and seeking solutions to their concerns.

Thank you to everyone who made the Crossroads of Couple and Family Psychology conference a success!