University of Oklahoma, USA
I am Marc Charney, Ph.D., LMFT, LPC. I live in Oklahoma City, OK, USA. I teach graduate courses at the University of Oklahoma in the Human Relations Department. I teach a course, "Narrative Therapies" and several others that are informed by narrative ideas. I have attended many of Michael and David's workshops and also those given by Jeff Zimmerman,  Jill Freedman, Gene Combs, Ian Law and others. I provide licensure supervision for licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed professional counselors in Oklahoma. I would like to host a narrative, peer supervision/consultation group for persons in Oklahoma. My office is centrally located and it would be a privilege to meet with and learn together with narrative - minded souls. Marc Charney 405-943-7500

Barry University, Adrian Dominican School of  Education, Miami Shores, Florida, USA
The Counseling Department of the Adrian Dominical School of Education offers Masters and PhD. degrees. Masters degrees are offered in: School Counseling, Mental Health, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling, Dual program, Mental Health/Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling. The Ph.D. degree is offered in Counseling with a Specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy. Faculty is of diverse theoretical orientations, and the Masters and Doctoral programs offer significant exposure to Narrative and Solution Focused therapies steeped in Systemic, Postmodern and Social Constructionist theory. An on-site, state of the art counseling clinic offers students the ongoing opportunity to utilize outside witness practices on reflecting teams. The program is housed in two campuses; one in Miami Shores, Florida and the other in Orlando, Florida.

For further information contact:

In Orlando: Paul Gallant, Ph.D. Phone: 321-235-8404, email: jpgallant@mail.barry.edu

In Miami Shores for the Masters program: Richard Tureen, Ph.D., Phone: 305-899-3741, email: rtureen@mail.barry.edu

For the Masters in School Counseling: Sylvia Fernandez, Ph.D., Phone: 305-899-4868, email: smfernandez@mail.barry.edu

For the Ph.D. program: Jeffrey Guterman, Ph.D.,  Phone: 305-899-3862, email: jguterman@mail.barry.edu

Dept of Social Work, University of Vermont, USA
The curriculum and scholarship of the Department of Social Work at the University of Vermont emphasize critical social construction particularly as it informs human rights, social justice, and a strengths perspective. The social work practice curricula present students with a comparative view of modernist and post-modernist approaches, while emphasizing the latter. Narrative, ethnographic, discursive, and solution-focused approaches and the post-structural theoretical perspectives from which they are derived are infused throughout all BSW and MSW courses. Elective courses and a Final Project in the MSW Program enable students to pursue specific approaches in more depth. Two of the most popular elective courses provide students with a focused study of narrative practices: Narrative Approaches to Social Work, taught by Peggy Sax, and Brief Therapy: Innovations in Individual, Couple, Group, and Family Therapy, taught by Charlie and Diane Gottlieb. Likewise, MSW students often pursue narrative applications through their Final Projects, the Department’s approach to the University’s comprehensive exam requirement. In order to continue learning and practicing a narrative approach, a number of alumni who work in a variety of settings, participate in narrative consultation groups provided by Peggy Sax.

For further information, please contact Susan Roche: sroche@uvm.edu or Peggy Sax: peggys@middlebury.edu

North Dakota State University Couple and Family Therapy, USA: A Feminist-Informed Social Justice Program
A 2 1/2 year M.S. program in the Department of Child Development and Family Science. Accredited by the COAMFTE. Our training focuses on Narrative Therapy, Feminist approaches, anti-racism, relational-based ethics, family play therapy, working with the LGBTQ community, and other socially just approaches to couple and family therapy. CDFS 775: Clinical Applications of Couple & Family Therapy I: Narrative therapy, Feminist, and LGBTQ theories and approaches. This course offers an introduction to socially just approaches to couple and family therapy including narrative and feminist therapies. The course also focuses on working with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community.

For more information see: www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/familytherapy

Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

Union Institute & University offers a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) program with a concentration in clinical psychology. Consistent with the university’s mission, the program has a strong commitment to diversity and social justice, and offers an optional emphasis in family psychology.  Issues of diversity and multiculturalism, as well as the psychologist’s role as an agent of social change, are embed throughout the program’s curriculum.

The program utilises a distributed learning model including both face-to-face and online interactions, making it accessible to working adults who need to balance career, family, and other social/civic responsibilities. The program is solidly grounded in the current standards of professional psychology and attends to current and evolving professional, economic and cultural trends. 

For more information see: www.tui.edu/psyd, contact: 802-254-0152 or email William Lax, Ph.D., ABPP (william.lax@tui.edu), Associate Dean, Psychology.

Humboldt State University, Department of Social Work, Arcata, CA, USA
The undergraduate and graduate social work programs (BA in Social Work, MSW) at Humboldt State University are guided by the following mission statement: "As a Department, we recognize that people who join us are much more than university students, and that all of us are members of the community. The relational quality between students and faculty reflects a mutual learning and educational process. The faculty is dedicated to the wellbeing of the social work students based on caring and compassion. It is important that the University and Department are seen as an integral part of the overall community fabric (economically, socially, and historically). The Department supports progressive practice that is based on peace, justice, experimentation, risk taking, inclusiveness, partnership, non-expert paradigms of relationships, and a belief in the uniqueness of each student’s own professional goals and vision of becoming the social worker they want to be." The MSW program emphasizes the following commitments: 1) practice with Native American communities, 2) rural social work, and 3) an educational foundation that includes the natural environment and activist environmental movements with peace and justice work. The BA in Social Work program emphasizes a non-expert-based paradigm and respect for multiple ways of knowing. Narrative ideas can be located across the curriculum. More about our programs can be found at: www.humboldt.edu/~swp/index.html  You can contact Ronnie Swartz, the current director of the undergraduate
social work program at 707.826.4562 or swartz@humboldt.edu
 

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