Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.)

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Director, Multicultural Family Institute

Nationally known teacher, author and family therapist. Books include: Re-Visioning Family Therapy, The Expanded Family Life Cycle (3rd Ed., 1999), Ethnicity and Family Therapy (3rd Ed., 2005), Genograms in Family Assessment, Women in Families, Living Beyond Loss, (2nd Ed, 2004) and You Can Go Home Again (1995). Faculty, Psychiatry Dept., RWJ Medical School, For 10 years was Visiting Professor Fordham University School of Social Service. Honorary Doctorate, Smith College School for Social Work, 1991. American Family Therapy Academy Award (1988): Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice.

Experience

  • 1991-present Director, Multicultural Family Institute of New Jersey, Highland Park, NJ
  • 1986-present Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ
  • 1991-2003 Visiting Professor, Fordham University, School For Social Service
  • 1975-1991 Director of UMDNJ Family Training Institute at the CMHC
  • 1985-1986 Adjunct Associate Professor, UMDNJ-RWJMedical School
  • 1974-1985 Adjunct Assistant Professor, UMDNJ-RWJMedical School
  • 1972-1974 Instructor in Psychiatry, UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School
  • 1977-1996 Faculty, Family Institute of Westchester, Mount Vernon, NY
  • 1972-present Private Practice: Therapy with individuals, couples and families. Consultation in Family Therapy to various organizations
  • 1974-1977 Staff, Cancer Adjustment Program, sponsored by American Cancer Society-multi-family groups for families of cancer patients
  • 1972-1977 Faculty, Center for Family Learning, New Rochelle, NY
  • 1970-1976 Therapy Research with Families of Schizophrenics, with Peter S. Meuller, M.D. Program included development and use of model of co-therapy with schizophrenic families, study of family patterns and histories, and editing of videotapes for teaching.
  • 1970-1972 Private Practice, with Boris Rifkin, M.D., Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Yale University
  • 1968-1972 St. Raphael's Hospital, New Haven, CT, Staff, Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic

Awards and Honors

  • 1998: American Association of Marital and Family Therapy, New Jersey Chapter. Award for Lifetime Contribution to Family Therapy.
  • 1994: Best Paper on the topic. Journal of Family Business: for article coaut f key issues: loss ( Ethnicity, families and family business: Implications for practitioners." Family Business Review .
  • 1989: Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Social Work & Particularly the Field of Family Therapy awarded by Social Work Coalition of UMDNJ
  • 1988: Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory & Practice, American Family Therapy Academy

Degrees

  • Smith College, Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa Ph.D. 1991
  • Smith College School of Social Work M.S.W. 1969
  • Yale University Russian Area Studies M.A. 1966
  • Brown University ( Cum Laude ,, High Honors in Russian Studies) B.A. 1964

Other Educational and Work Experiences

  • 1967-1968: Psychiatric Inpatient Ward, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Family evaluation, therapy and multi-family groups.
  • 1968-1969: Clifford Beers Guidance Clinic, New Haven, CT.
  • 1968-1971: Psychodrama and group therapy training and collaborative work with Eugene Eliasoph, M.S.W., New Haven, CT.
  • 1966-1967: Psychiatric Aide, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT., Member of mental health team on day hospital and inpatient units.
  • 1966-1968: Instructor, University of Hartford, =Russian Department.
  • 1965-1966: Instructor, YMCA Adult Education School, Russian Department.
  • 1964-1966: Middlebury Summer Language School, Russian Department.
  • 1963: Studied Russian at Univ. of Vienna; Slavic Language Seminar, Eisenstadt, Austria. Travel with Austrian Students to U.S.S.R.

Professional Organizations

  • American Family Therapy Academy: Chair, Awards Committee (1990-1991)
  • American Family Therapy Academy: Vice President (1987-1989)
  • American Family Therapy Academy: Chair, Publications Committee (1986-1988)
  • American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy: Fellow (1984-present)
  • American Family Therapy Academy: Program Chairperson (1983-1985)
  • American Orthopsychiatric Association: Secretary (1982-1984)
  • Advisory Committee to National Commission on Accreditation for Family Therapy
  • Training Programs (1982-1984)
  • NIMH Research Seminar on Health Family Functioning: Participant (1983)
  • American Family Therapy Association: Board Member (1980-1986)
  • American Orthopsychiatric Association: Chair, Institutes Program (1978-1981)
  • American Orthopsychiatric Association: Co-chair, Program Committee (1975-1977)

National or International Conference Coordinator

  • 1994: Pre-Conference Diversity Workshop, American Family Therapy Academy
  • 1991: International Women's Colloquium, Copenhagen
  • 1990: Researcher/Clinician Dialogue - Sea Island Plantation, Florida
  • 1988: Loss and the Family, Ballymaloe, Ireland
  • 1986: Second Women's Colloquium, Stonehendge, CT
  • 1984: First Women's Colloquium, Stonehendge, CT (senior family therapists)
  • 1984: International Conference on Alcohol & The Family, Dublin, Ireland
  • 1983: Systemic Teams Conference, Ballymaloe, Ireland

Editorial Boards

  • Family Process
  • Journal of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy
  • Journal of Feminist Family Therapy
  • Journal of Divorce and Remarriage
  • Contemporary Family Therapy
  • Family Systems and Health

Publications

Books

  1. Walsh, F. & McGoldrick, M. (2004). Living Beyond Loss: Death and the Family, 2 nd edition. New York: Norton.
  2. McGoldrick, J. & Giordano, N. Garcia Preto, (in press). Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 3rd Edition . New York: Guilford.
  3. Walsh, F. & McGoldrick, M., (in press). Living Beyond Loss: Death and the Family . 2nd edition. New York: W.W. Norton.
  4. McGoldrick, M., Gerson, R., & Schellenberger, S. (1999). Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, 2nd Edition, New York: Norton.
  5. Carter, B., & McGoldrick, M. (Ed.). (1998). The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family and Social Perspectives , 3rd Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
  6. McGoldrick, M. (Ed.). (1998). Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture and Gender in Clinical Practice , New York: Guilford.
  7. McGoldrick, J. & Giordano, J., M., Pearce, (1996). Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 2nd Edition . New York: Guilford.
  8. McGoldrick, M. (1995). You Can Go Home Again . New York: W.W. Norton.(Has been translated into German and Greek).
  9. Walsh, F. & McGoldrick, M., (1991). Living Beyond Loss: Death and the Family . New York: W.W. Norton. (Has been translated into Portuguese.)
  10. McGoldrick, M., Anderson, C., & Walsh, F., (1989). Women in Families, A Framework f or Family Therapy . New York: W.W. Norton. (Has been translated into German.)
  11. Carter, B. & McGoldrick, M., (1988). The Changing Family Life Cycle: A framework for family therapy . 2nd Ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
  12. McGoldrick, M., & Gerson, R. (1985). Genograms in Family Assessment . New York:W.W. Norton. (Has been translated into German, French, Spanish, Greek, and Japanese).
  13. McGoldrick, M, Pearce, J.K. & Giordano, J., (1992). Ethnicity and Family Therapy, New York: Guilford.
  14. Carter, B., & McGoldrick, M., (1980). The Family Life Cycle: A framework for family therapy . 1st Ed. New York: Gardner.

Articles & Book Chapters

  1. Petry, S. S. & McGoldrick, M. (2003). Genograms in assessment and therapy. In G. P. Koocher, J. C. Norcross, & S. S. Hill (Eds.). The psychologists' desk reference (2nd Edition). New York: Oxford University Press.
  2. Korin, E.C., McGoldrick, M. & Watson. M. F. (2002). The individual and family life cycle. In M. Mengel, W. Holleman, S. Fields (Eds.). Fundamentals of clinical practice, 2nd ed. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
  3. McGoldrick, M. (2002). Culture: A challenge to concepts of normality. In F. Walsh. Normal family processes, 3rd ed . New York: Guilford.
  4. McGoldrick, M. & Carter, B. (2002). Understanding the life cycle: The individual, the family, the culture. In F. Walsh. Normal family processes, 3rd ed . New York: Guilford.
  5. Carter, B. & McGoldrick, M. (2002). Advances in coaching: Family therapy with one person. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy , April.
  6. McGoldrick, M. Almeida, R. Bibb, A., Moore Hines, P., Hudak J., Garcia Preto, N., Sutton, C. (1999). Efforts to Develop An Equitable Family Training Program, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy , April.
  7. Korin, Eliana, McGoldrick, Monica, & Watson, Marlene. (1996). Individual and family life cycle. In Mark Mengel & Warren L. Holleman (Eds.). Principles of clinical practice; Volume 1: Patient, doctor and society . New York: Plenum.
  8. McGoldrick, M. (1994). "The ache for home". Family Therapy Networker, July/August.
  9. McGoldrick, M. & Troast, J. (1993). "Ethnicity, Families, & Family Business: Implications of practitioners." Family Business Review .
  10. Rogers, J., Rohrbaugh, M. & McGoldrick, M. (1992). "Can experts predict health risk from family genograms." Family Medicine , March/April.
  11. Rohrbaugh, M., Rogers, J. & McGoldrick, M. (1992). "How do experts read family genograms." Family Medicine , March/April.
  12. McGoldrick, M. (1992). "The future of family therapy: Inserting culture, class, race and gender." Dallas, TX.
  13. McGoldrick, M., Anderson, C., & Walsh, F. (1991). "Feministische Familientherapie in Theorie und Praxis."
  14. McGoldrick, M., Hines, P., Garcia Preto, N., Almeida, R., Lee, E., & Rosen, E. (1991)."Culture and Mourning." In Froma Walsh & Monica McGoldrick, (Eds.). Living beyond loss: Death in the family . New York: W.W. Norton.
  15. McGoldrick, M., Braverman, L., Preto, N., Hines, P., Lee, E., Almeida, R., Taylor, J., Michaud, T., & Schmidt, M. (1991). "Culture and mothers." Journal of Feminist Family Therapy .
  16. McGoldrick, M., & Rohrbaugh, M. (1988). "Researching ethnic stereotypes." Family Process , 26: 89-99.
  17. McGoldrick, M., & Walsh, F. (1988). "Continuity and change over the life cycle." In C. Falicov, (Ed.). Family Transitions . New York: Guilford.
  18. McGoldrick, M. (1987). "On reaching mid-career without a wife." The Family Therapy Networker , May/June.
  19. McGoldrick, M. & Gerson, R. (1986). "Constructing and interpreting genograms: The example of Sigmund Freud's family." Innovations in Clinical Practice , Professional Resource Exchange, 5.
  20. McGoldrick, M., Hines, P., Lee, E., Preto, N. (1986). "Mourning Rituals." The Family Therapy Networker , Nov./Dec.
  21. McGoldrick, M. & Gerson, R. (1985). "The computerized genogram." Primary Care 12, (3).
  22. McGoldrick, M. & Walsh, F. (1983). "A systemic view of family history and loss." In M.L. Aronson & L. Waldburg, (Eds.). Group and family therapy . New York: Brunner/Mazel.
  23. McGoldrick, M. & Walsh, F. (1982). "Normal families: An ethnic perspective." In Froma Walsh, (Ed.). Normal family Processes . New York: Guilford Publications.
  24. McGoldrick, M. & Carter, B. (1982). "The family life cycle." In Froma Walsh, (Ed.). Normal family processes . New York: Guilford Publications.
  25. McGoldrick, M. (1982). "Through the looking glass: Supervision of a trainee's trigger family." In J. Byng-Hall and R. Whiffen, (Eds.). Family therapy supervision . London: Academic Press.
  26. McGoldrick, M. & Pearce, J. (1981). "Family therapy with Irish Americans." Family Process , 20.
  27. McGoldrick, M. (1981). "Problems with family genograms." In A. Gurman, (Ed.). Questions and answers in family therapy . New York: Brunner/Mazel.
  28. Carter, B. & McGoldrick, M. (1976). "Family therapy with one person and the therapist's own family." In P.J. Guerin, (Ed.). Family Therapy . New York:Gardner Press.
  29. McGoldrick, M. & Mueller, P. (1976). "A method of co-therapy for schizophrenic families." Family Process , 15/2
  30. McGoldrick, M. & Mueller, P. (9176). "Family therapy." In S. Messer, (Ed.). Treatment of Psychological Disorders, Bureau of Research and Training - Mental Health, 1/3.
  31. McGoldrick, M. (1974). "The Wilkin family: A case study." The Family , 1/2.
  32. McGoldrick, M. (1972). "Children's use of humor in psychotherapy." Social Casework , 53/3.
  33. McGoldrick, M. (1970). "Poverty amidst plenty: Psychiatric services for adolescents in a progressive urban community." with B.G. Rifkin, D.H. Grinder, & W. Erickson, J.Hospital St. Raphael's, New Haven, CT.

Videotapes

  1. McGoldrick, M.(1996). Living Beyond Loss: Videotape of a case. New York: Newbridge Communications, Available through www.MulticulturalFamily.org. (Being Translated into Korean.)

Research

  1. Curriculum Developer/Master Trainer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services AdministrationGrant: Cultural Competence Workforce Training. Principal Investigator: William Vega. (2002-2005).
  2. Principal Investigator, grant on Family Assessment in Family Medicine: A Brief Genogram Interview, funded by Family Health Foundation of America.
  3. Survey of 2nd year medical students at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and School of Osteopathic Medicine, 1982-86, exploring gender, health habits, ethnic background, family characteristics and specialty choices, with Michael Rohrbaugh, Ph.D.
  4. Ethnicity survey: A pilot survey of family characteristics and attitudes towards health and illness which attempts to clarify the attitudes of different ethnic groups, with Michael Rohrbaugh, Ph.D.
  5. Survey on suicide and other untimely deaths, with Michael Rohrbaugh, Ph.D.

Languages

Some fluency in French, German, Russian and Greek. A little Italian.