Lecture One: Understanding the Role of Spirituality and the Black Church in the Lives of Our African American Clients. 10AM, January 17, 2002

Lecture Two: Utilizing African American cultural strengths in Treatment 1:00PM, January 17, 2002

Lecture Three: Working Creatively with Resistance to Treatment by African American Clients and Families 3:00PM, January 17, 2002

 Lecture Four: Using Spirituality and Religion in the Process of Joining With African American Clients in Treatment 7:30PM, January 17, 2002

Lecture Five: The Use of Spiritual Metaphor in the Treatment of  African American Clients. 10AM, January 18, 2002

Lecture Six: Utilizing the Multisystems Model in Our Work with African American Clients and Families 1:00PM, January 18, 2002

Lecture Seven: The Therapist’s Use of Self in Cross Racial and Same Racial Treatment 3:00PM, January 18, 2002

About Dr. Boyd-Franklin

Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin, a nationally respected scholar and clinician will be the speaker at the 2002 Integration Symposium. She is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rugters University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. Dr. Boyd-Franklin received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, M.S. and Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed five years of Family Therapy Training with Dr. Salvador Minuchin at Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic and at the Family Studies Section of the Bronx Psychiatric Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Boyd-Franklin has received numerous awards and honors for her work: the Psychotherapy with Women Award for “Substantial and Outstanding Contributions to the Theory, Practice and Research on Psychotherapy with Women,” the Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award by the Association of Black Psychologists, the Women of Color Award by the New York Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs and the Merit Award for teaching excellence from Residency Program in Psychiatry. As a result of receiving the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Dr. Boyd-Franklin spent a year traveling in East and West Africa conducting research. She investigated language problems caused by the use of the vernacular and the national language, and also recent developments in community mental health clinics and psychiatric hospitals. Dr. Boyd-Franklin was also an invited participant in the first White House Conference on HIV and AIDS convened by President Bill Clinton.  

Dr. Boyd-Franklin’s special interests include multicultural issues, the treatment of African-American families, ethnicity and family therapy, marital and couples therapy, the multi-systems approach to the treatment of inner-city families, issues for women of color, and the development of a model of therapeutic support groups for African-American women. She is particularly concerned about the needs of children and families at risk and has worked with issues such as child abuse, sexual abuse, and pediatric AIDS.

Dr. Boyd-Franklin has published numerous articles and chapters on the above topics. Her books include: Boys into men: Raising our African American teenage sons; Reaching out in Family therapy: Home-based, school and community interventions; Children, families and HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial and therapeutic issues; Black Families in Therapy: A Multi-system Approach. She is currently writing two new books: Black Families in therapy: A Multi-systems Approach Second Edition and Racial Identity Theory: New Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century, with Dr. Robert Carter.

 Dr. Boyd-Franklin has served on the board of directors of national organizations including the American Family Therapy Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the New York Association of Black Psychologists. She also serves as an expert trainer for the Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center that was set up when Congress passed the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act (P.L. 100-105).  

Dr. Boyd-Franklin is a licensed Psychologist in New York State and New Jersey specializing in family therapy and co-director of the Rutgers/Somerset Counseling Project.

About Dr. Smith

An ordained American Baptist minister and a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist, Dr. Smith brings an intimate understanding of the struggles of individuals and faith communities to his classrooms. His teaching explores oppressive practices, emphasizes the importance of narrative, and challenges students to relate systemic thinking to pastoral action in their communities. Dr. Smith's publications include The Relational Self: Ethics and herapy From a Black Church Perspective (1982), Navigating the Deep River: Spirituality in African American Families (1997), Tending the Flock: Congregations and Family Ministry (edited with K.B. Lyons) (1998), and articles on violence, immeasurable human suffering, the arts, and African American families.

B.A., Linfield College, 1961; M.Div., Colgate Rochester Divinity School, 1964; S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1966; M.S.W., Brandeis University, 1971; Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1973. At Pacific School of Religion since 1975.