Karl Tomm, MD, FRCP (C)
Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine; Director, Family Therapy Program. Karl is deeply interested in the application of systems theory, narrative theory, social constructionism, bringforthism, and second order cybernetics to therapy. He is currently focused on clarifying the effects of social injustice on families, the influence on therapists of the distinctions they make regarding their clients, and on explicating the possible therapeutic and counter therapeutic effects of the interviewing process itself.



Joanne Schultz Hall, MA in Education: Counseling, RMFT
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, U. of C. Joanne has over 26 years of experience working with families, 21 of these at the Family Therapy Program where she does family therapy, supervision and training. Joanne is an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor. Joanne has been a consultant for the Family Therapy Education and Training Program, Children's Mental Health (AB) for the Leduc area regions.
Joanne has provided workshops on a variety of topics, including assessing pathologizing and healing patterns in family relationships, stepfamily issues and collaborative team development. Joanne's special interests include a curiosity about the impact of spiritual beliefs and family/individual values on individuals and their relationships and the impact of ideas about gender on the family. As well, Joanne is interested in the special challenges that families who own/manage their own business face. In terms of personal interests, she looks forward to the first signs of winter as the ski season approaches and enjoys a love of music and playing the piano.



Chee-Ping Tsai, BA. MEd, PhD, C.Psychologist
Chee-Ping has a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology. She is a Chartered Psychologist and an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary. Chee-Ping is experienced in applying systemic therapeutic principles in working with children, adolescents, and families. She is particularly interested in integrating family therapy together with play therapy in her work. Other areas of focus include ethnic minority /cultural identity issues, managing anger within a family context, enhancing the parent-child relationship, single parent family dynamics as well as parenting/co-parenting issues. In addition to her clinical work, Chee-Ping provides supervision and seminars to interns at the Family Therapy Program. She has also offered consultation to mental health therapists in Fort McMurray through the Family Therapy Education Program, Children's Mental Health (Alberta). Her personal interests range from traveling, music, yoga, swimming, hiking, public speaking, to studying her cat, Tamay's personality and behavior.



Sally St. George, PhD,
Sally St. George, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Sally teaches marriage and family therapy and social work courses and supervises students who are in a field practicum. She is also a therapist and supervisor with the Calgary Family Therapy Centre at the University of Calgary. Sally is extremely dedicated to studying and improving teaching methods in higher education. In addition to teaching, she is interested in examining people's difficulties through the lenses of grand social narratives. She is also a Co-Editor of The Qualitative Report, http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html, a free online journal dedicated to publishing creative and well-done qualitative research from all disciplines across the world. In this position, Sally reviews and edits manuscript submissions by joining with reviewers and authors in creating a positive and generative learning community. Sally is interested in researching alternative ways to fund "family work as community work," that is, accountable practices without the constraints of an external funder. This dovetails with her service on the Advisory Board for the Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work in which Sally joins other colleagues in educating, researching, and practicing for greater social justice locally and globally.



Dan Wulff, PhD
Dan Wulff, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Work and family therapist/supervisor in the Calgary Family Therapy Centre at the University of Calgary. He works to integrate the professions the family therapy and social work in his classes, in publications/presentations, in program development, and in practice. Dan also serves on the Advisory Board for the Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work, an international organization focused on education, research, and practices that support social justice locally and globally. Dan has a passion for qualitative inquiry, particularly the more participatory forms. He is Co-Editor of The Qualitative Report (http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html), an open-access online journal dedicated to publishing creative and well-done qualitative research in all disciplines worldwide. In practice, research, and teaching endeavors, Dan enjoys the improvisational, the artistic, and the relational.

 

 

IN MEMORIUM

Gary Sanders, BSc, MD, FRCP (C)
Gary passed away in late 2002 after a 3 year battle with cancer. He is sorely missed by everyone at the program. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Calgary. Gary was the Associate Director and Clinical Coordinator, Family Therapy Program. He was also the Director of the Human Sexuality Program, and psychiatric consultant to the Phoenix Sexual Offenders Program of Woods Homes, and the Family Adolescent and Children's Services of the Provincial Mental Health Board.

 





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