Teaching interests:
Client-directed, outcome informed approaches to change; feedback processes and change in couple and family therapy; transforming systems of care to privilege client goals and preferences and promote social justice; common factors and therapeutic outcome; historical and political contexts of family therapy.
Scholarly and Creative Interests:
The impact of systematic integration of client feedback on outcome in couple and family therapy

Patterns of the alliance in couple and family therapy

Use of client feedback in community-based systems of care for at-risk families

Incorporation of outcome management in clinical training and teaching curricula

Project Leader - Heart and Soul of Change Project www.heartandsoulofchange.com

Critical examination of medical approaches to child and adolescent mental and behavioral distress

Board Member - International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry

Scientific Advisory Board - Mindfreedom International

Dissertation: Media Madness: The Social Construction of Mental Illness in Popular Culture