Dr. Ned Gaylin Travelling Across the Pond

At the Healthy Turtle, it's always a pleasure when we get to highlight something exciting that one of our students or faculty has the opportunity to do. Today, we get to do that.

Dr. Ned Gaylin, a Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Health’s Department of Family Science, is presenting a two-day workshop on Family-Centered Therapy in Lisbon, Portugal on March 13 and 14. Dr. Gaylin was invited to conduct the workshop by the faculty of the Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa.

The workshop will focus on all aspects of family-centered therapy, including philosophy and methods of practice, according to Dr. Gaylin. He added that particular attention will be given to the “similarities and differences in working with individuals versus working with families."

This will be Dr. Gaylin’s first workshop in Portugal, although he has travelled to Europe many times to present on family therapy. In fact, Dr. Gaylin will conduct a similar workshop on June 24-28 in Athens, Greece, for the Institute of Counseling and Psychological Studies.

Dr. Gaylin says that he finds the audiences abroad very receptive, even when communicating across language barriers—for this workshop, he will be working with a translator.

“I find working with a translator to be particularly interesting, although a bit arduous, when one is doing therapy,” Dr. Gaylin said. “It’s both a powerful and edifying experience.”

Dr. Ned L. Gaylin is the author of Family, Self, and Psychotherapy: A Person-Centered Perspective, which was published in 2001. A noted expert in family therapy, he earned his Ph.D. in Human Development/Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Chicago.

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Thanks to Dr. Ned Gaylin for his time in putting this feature together. For more on Dr. Gaylin, visit his site here. For more on the Department of Family Science, visit here. As a note, this article will be included in tomorrow's edition of the ASPH Friday Letter.