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AFTA Monograph Series

NEW! The AFTA Monograph Series. One theme-based, guest-edited issue each year features original work by AFTA members who are leaders in the field.

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Winter 2007

Systemic Responses to Disaster:
Stories of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina


Guest Editor: John Sargent, M.D.

Elaine Pinderhughes, M.S.W.
- Systemic Response to the Disaster of Katrina

Saliha Bava, Ph.D. & Sue Levin, Ph.D. - Collaborative Disaster Response: Setting Up Mental Health Services in a Mega-Shelter

Jerry Gale, Ph.D., David Trimble, Ph.D., Melissa Elliott, M.S.N., Julie Propst, M.F.T., & Louise Dillon, M.S.W. - Meta-Conversation on Crisis Response Work
For further meta-conversation, click here.

Jane Ariel, Ph.D. - Voices Coming Through: A Collaborative Project Following Hurricane Katrina

M. Coleen Speed, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. & Samuel L. Speed, M.P.A. - Working with Katrina Evacuees from South Louisiana: Becoming Victors Instead of Victims

Lee Combrinck-Graham, M.D. - Mental Health in the Aftermath of Katrina and Rita

Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey, Ph.D. & Sarah Pulleyblank Patrick, M.S. - Reaching Across Disciplines to Discover Systemic Responses to Disaster

Katherine T. Volk, M.A., Kristina Konnath, L.I.C.S.W., & Ellen Bassuk, M.D. - Helping Children Heal After the Hurricanes: An Innovative Training Approach

Laurie L. Charlés, Ph.D. - Refugee or Displaced Person? What it Means to be an Exile Inside and Out of your National Borders

Paulette Hines, Ph.D., Joyce Mills, Ph.D., Robert Bonner, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., L.L.C., CharlesEtta Sutton, L.C.S.W., B.C.D., & Cherie Castellano, M.A., C.S.W., L.P.C. - Healing and Recovery After Trauma: A Disaster Response Program for First Responders

David Wohlsifer, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. - Book Review: Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper

Jack Saul, Ph.D. - Promoting Community Resilience in Lower Manhattan After September 11, 2001


Summer 2006

Immigrant Families and Immigration: Therapeutic Work

Guest Editors: Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Ed.D. & Janine Roberts, Ed.D.

Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Ed.D. & Janine Roberts, Ed.D. - Introduction: Immigrant Families and Immigration: Therapeutic Work

Jean Turner, Ph.D. & Alan Simmons, Ph.D. - Transnational Resilience: Key Concepts for Working with Refugees

Klara Ernyes & Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey, Ph.D. - Pushing Against the Stream: Building Community with Bosnian Refugees in Oakland, California

Judith Gómez de León del Río, MFT & Javier Vicencio Guzmán, M.D. - The Impact of Absence: Families, Migration, and Family Therapy in Ocotepec, Mexico

Herta Guttman, M.D. - Ways to Get Actively Involved: The Therapist as an Amnesty International Refnet Volunteer


Winter 2005

Lessons Learned in Community Practice

Guest Editor: Ramón Rojano, M.D.

Ramón Rojano, M.D. - Family Therapists Keep Building Communities in the Global Village

Jeri Hepworth, Ph.D. - Is Caring for our Communities Enough? Moving Beyond the Do-Gooder to Maybe Doing Good

Marcelo Pakman, M.D. - Systemic Community Psychiatry

Peter Fraenkel, Ph.D. - Fresh Start for Families: A Collaboratively-Built Community-Based Program for Families that are Homeless

Beatriz Molina, M.S.W., Cielo de Cure, Carmen María de Salazar, Katia de Rosales, Silvia de Navarro, María Teresa de Sabbagh, María de Theran & Daisy Barros - Nuestra Casa [Our Home]: From the Family to the Community

Eleanor C. Nealy, M.Div., M.S.W. - We are not Alone: Making Connections in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities

Rosa Maria Stefanini de Macedo, Ph.D. - Constructing Empowerment and Resilience Contexts: Systemic Interventions in Communities

Madhubala Ishver Kasiram, Ph.D. & Emmerentie Oliphant, Ph.D. - Challenges and Changes to Family Therapy Practice in South Africa

Howard A. Liddle, Ed.D. - The Community Practice of Multidimensional Family Therapy: A Science-Based Treatment for Adolescent Drug Problems and Delinquency

Laura Roberto-Forman, Psy.D. - Afterword

Summer 2005

Touched by War Zones, Near and Far:
Oscillations of Despair and Hope


Guest Editor: Jodie Kliman, Ph.D.

Jodie Kliman, Ph.D.
- Touched by War Zones, Near and Far: Oscillations of Despair and Hope: Introduction to the Monograph Series

Sanja Rolovic, Ph.D., Roxana Llerena-Quinn, Ph.D. - Reflections on Growing up in a War Zone: Understanding War and Building Peace

Yael Geron, Ph.D., Ruth Malkinson, Ph.D., Michal Shamai, Ph.D. - Families in the War Zone: Narratives of "Me" and "Other" in the Course of Therapy

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D. - Reflections on Families in the War Zone: Narratives of "Me" and "Other" in the Course of Therapy

Hugo Kamya, Ph.D. - The Impact of War on Children and Families: Their Stories, My Own Stories

Casi Kushel, M.S. - Obaid's Poem and Other Impressions of Afghanistan

Victoria Eugenia Acevedo, Psy.D. - Viajeros con Equipaje (Voyagers with Baggage): A Colombian View of Families in the War Zone

All Authors - Touched by War Zones: Dialogue and Shared Reflections