Faculty

MFT faculty members are both unique and share commonalities. Our histories carry different cultural heritages, class structures, religious reference groups, family compositions, and affiliations with the wider community. We are of different genders, generations, and disciplines, and we have different roles of collaboration and authority among us and within the broader university and community. Our professional careers have been differentially affected by gender, family circumstance, and health status.

Similarly, we were socialized, and began our education and careers within a Western cultural milieu and a positivist scientific tradition, and during a time when clinical training was focused on schools of therapy, clinicians were trained as applied technicians, and culture and context were positioned as background data. Because we recognize that all socialization, education, and practice is temporal- and context-bound, we have been committed to regularly examine what we know and believe, and to participate in the professional exchange and advancement of knowledge and skills in our disciplines. Our continued education and careers have spanned across 30 - 50 years and are characterized by a commitment to career-long learning and to the provision of informed, respectful, and reflective scholarship, training, supervision, and practice.

	Shayne Anderson, Ph.D. Change process in family therapy, Therapeutic alliance and common factors in family therapy, Child Maltreatment and Foster Care Correlates and Issues, Treatment of high conflict couples. shayne.anderson@uconn.edu, 860-486-1659
	Stephen Anderson, Ph.D. Family interaction, assessment of family functioning, family violence, and clinical supervision and training. stephen.anderson@uconn.edu, 860-486-3865
	Doris LaPlante, Ph.D. , Clinic Director doris.laplante@uconn.edu, 860-486-2396
	Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio, Ph.D. Systemic Cognitive Developmental therapy and supervision; cultural and contextual dimensions of education, supervision and therapy; multicultural and contextual competencies in MFT education, supervision, practice, and research. srdigilio@comcast.net, 860-486-2095
	Ronald Sabatelli, Ph.D. Family interaction processes, processes mediating the formation, maintenance, and breakdown of intimate dyads. ronald.sabatelli@uconn.edu, 860-486-4726