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Minority
Fellowship Program
ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
J. Maria Bermudez ,PhD
Dr. Bermúdez is currently an Assistant
Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at The University of
Georgia in the Department of Child and Family Development. Formerly
she was on the MFT faculty at Texas Tech University. She earned her
masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University
Calumet and her doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy at Virginia
Tech. Dr. Bermúdez completed her doctoral internship at New River
Valley Community Services in Blacksburg, Virginia, where her primary
responsibilities related to working with adolescents and their
families who were coping with substance abuse and recovery. She is
an Approved Supervisor and Clinical Member of AAMFT.
Her research program focuses on clinical
outreach for those from marginalized populations, paying special
attention to developmental, contextual, and systemic issues as they
relate to race, class, culture, gender and sexuality. Currently, her
research with Dr. Jerry Gale relates to creating a model for combing
MFTs and Financial Counselors for helping couples living near or at
the threshold of poverty. Her work is based in social
constructionist, feminist informed and culturally responsive
approaches to therapy, research and supervision. Other research and
clinical interests include conflict resolution and communication
processes, the effects of immigration on Latino couples and
families, the use of art, spirituality, and creativity in therapy,
and strength-based and systemic approaches to addiction and
recovery.
Dr. Bermudez can be reached at
mbermude@uga.edu
Alan J. Hovestadt, Ed.D
Alan J. Hovestadt, Ed.D. (Northern Illinois
University, 1973), is currently Professor of Counseling Psychology
and Family Therapy Education in the Department of Counseling
Psychology at Western Michigan University (WMU). He was elected by
the membership of the 24,000 member American Association for
Marriage and Family Therapy to serve as President Elect in
2003-2004, President in 2005-2006 and Past President for 2007.
Hovestadt served as Associate Dean for Graduate Education and
Research for the College of Education in 1991 and 1992. Before
coming to WMU in 1985 as Professor and Department Chairperson, he
was Professor of Counseling and Director of MFT Education
(1973-1985) for the first Commission on Accreditation for Marriage
and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) accredited MFT doctoral
program in the Southwestern United States at Texas A& M–Commerce.
He has served the COAMFTE as a program accreditation site visitor or
chairperson on 18 occasions during the past three decades. Prior to
his election as President, his AAMFT leadership included service as
a Board Member 1981-1983 and Treasurer 1996-1998. Hovestadt holds
AAMFT Fellow status (1983) and has received two AAMFT national
awards, the Distinguished Contributions Award (1999) and the
Divisional Contributions Award (1996). In addition to awards and
honors conferred by several other professional associations
Hovestadt received the Joseph J. Malone Fellowship in Arab and
Islamic Study for study in Egypt from the National Council on U.S.
Arab Relations (1989, Washington, D.C.).
Hovestadt was appointed by Governor John Engler
to serve two terms as a member to the State of Michigan Marriage and
Family Therapy Licensing Board. He was LMFT Board Chairperson
through January of 2003. Hovestadt was President of Michigan
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy during 1994-95 and
President of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
1979-80. He has been an active member of the Honorary Society of Phi
Kappa Phi (PKP), twice serving as Western Michigan University
Chapter President. His national PKP leadership includes service on
the Foundation Investment Advisory Committee and current service on
the PKP Budget Advisory and Review Committee.
He is the author of over 50 journal articles,
books, chapters, and monographs on topics ranging from professional
issues and ethics, alexithymia, and rural mental health to
intergenerational research examining the impact of the family of
origin on current functioning. Hovestadt has served as an editorial
board member for five journals. He recently coauthored a book
chapter on the status of rural mental health services in the
Handbook of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and
Families (2005). Hovestadt has made presentations and conducted
workshops at numerous regional, national and international
conferences and programs. In 2002 he was invited by the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, to make presentations
on family or origin therapy in Moscow. He is has been project
co-director for Federal grants funded by the National Institute for
Mental Health (1981-85) and the U.S. Office of Education,
Rehabilitation Services Administration (1994-2005). Beyond his
teaching, research and professional service, Hovestadt has consulted
and conducted program evaluation services in public schools, charter
schools, community mental health clinics, hospitals, community based
agencies and universities.
Sandra
Rigazio-DiGilio, PhD
Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio
is a professor in the University of Connecticut’s MFT master’s and
doctoral programs. Her scholarship addresses cultural, contextual,
integrative, and multidisciplinary competencies in the domains of
theory building, model development, training, and supervision. Her
work to advance a Systemic Cognitive-Developmental Therapy Model and
corresponding supervisory approach is recognized as addressing
cultural and community issues, and as organizing
traditional and contemporary models while keeping cultural and
contextual factors in the forefront of therapy and supervision.
Since 2000, she has also been working to
identify and
operationalize cultural, contextual, integrative, and
multidisciplinary competencies and corresponding pedagogical and
supervisory methods for the preparation of MFT
scientist/practitioners. Publications include multiple articles on
these topics, a book on Cultural Genograms, an upcoming text
on Multicultural Foundations of Marriage and Family Therapy,
and an upcoming Guest Editorship for an edition of
Contemporary Family Therapy that will address cultural and
contextual competencies in MFT training, research, and practice.
E-Mail:
srdigilio@comcast.et
Website:
http://web.uconn.edu/familystudies/contact/faculty/storrs_faculty_rigazio-digilio.html
Carolyn Tubbs,
Ph.D.
Dr.
Tubbs is an Associate Professor in the Programs in Couple and Family
Therapy Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She
earned her masters degree in Human Development and Family Studies at
Texas Tech University and her doctorate in Marriage and Family
Therapy at Purdue University. Dr. Tubbs completed her doctoral
internship in marriage and family therapy at the Houston-Galveston
Institute. She is an Approved Supervisor and Clinical Member of the
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). In
addition, she is a member of AAMFT’s Election Council and a
Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy
Education site visitor. She also served on the board of the Ontario
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and was its annual
general meeting chair.
Dr. Tubbs was a Research Scientist and
Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State University for the Welfare,
Children and Families: A Three City-Study, a multi-site
ethnographic study on welfare reform. As part of her work, Dr.
Tubbs has examined facilitators of family stability, family rituals,
and parenting in low-income families. Dr. Tubbs has also been
involved with the National Institute on Domestic Violence in the
African American Community in researching the causes and solutions
to domestic violence in African American communities located in both
urban and rural regions throughout the United State, including San
Francisco, Puerto Rico, Philadelphia, and Detroit. Her research
interests include qualitative research methodology, shared parenting
among couples with a history of intimate partner violence, health
care disparities, mental and physical health issues, and parenting
in low-income populations.
Dr. Tubbs has served as Faculty Mentor for
honors undergraduates at the Schreyers Honor College (2000-2002);
Board Chair, Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis (2006-2007); and
member of the University of Guelph’s Research Ethics Board (2007)
Arnold
Woodruff
Arnold Woodruff, currently the program
manager for a series of community based programs in the Central
Virginia region for individuals with serious mental illness, has
been a Clinical Member of AAMFT since 1982. Nearly his entire
professional career has been in public mental health and child
welfare agencies with a couple of ventures into full-time or
part-time private practice. Arnold received his M.S. degree from the
COAMFTE approved program at Northern Illinois University and is also
an Approved Supervisor. He has also served on the divisional boards
in both Virginia and Illinois and is currently the Past President of
the Virginia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
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