Mental Health Conference 2007
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About Our Speakers
Dr. Williams Beardslee, M.D.
Dr. Williams Beardslee, M.D., is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital and Gardner/Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard University. He is the author of over 100 articles and chapters and books including the acclaimed Out of the Darkened Room: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family When A Parent Is Depressed. Dr. Beardslee is a frequent speaker and consultant on families and mental illness and serves as medical advisor to Families for Depression Awareness.
Dr. Froma Walsh, Ph. D.
Dr. Froma Walsh, Ph. D., is a Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She is also co-director of the University of Chicago’s Center for Family Health, past editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, past president of the American Family Therapy Academy and recipient of their Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy, Theory and Practice award, and has written and spoken extensively in the areas of family systems and family therapy. Among her publications are Strengthening Family Resilience, Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy and Women in Families.
Ruth Field, LCSW
Ruth Field, LCSW, is the co-founder of the Child & Adolescent Bipolar Institute (“CABF”), its first board president and former managing director and a current member of the CABF board of directors. Ms. Fields is a social worker and therapist in private practice and the mother of a bipolar child. She worked as a clinician at the Josselyn Center and was the co-author if its manual Understanding and Educating Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide to Educators.