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Join host Pam Kroskie and guest Dr. Joyce Maguire-Pavao February 15th 2pm EST
Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao has done extensive training, both nationally and internationally.
She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has lectured at
Harvard, Smith, Wellesley, UCLA, USC Antioch, among other universities.
She has consulted various public and private child welfare agencies, adoption
agencies, schools, and community groups, as well as probate and family court
judges, lawyers, and clergy. Additionally, she has worked closely with
individuals, couples, and families with adoption-related issues, foster care
issues, guardianship and kinship.
She has developed models for treatment, and for training using her systemic,
intergenerational, and developmental framework The Normative Crises in the
Development of the Adoptive Family (Family Therapy News, 1982) her book
The Family of Adoption (Beacon Press, 1998,2005) has received high acclaim.
In addition, she is a contributing writer to Clinical Practice Issues in
Adoption: Bridging the Gap Between Adoptees Placed as Infants and as Older
Children, Groza and Rosenberg, ed. (Praeger Press, 1998), Creating Kinship,
Roszia, Baran and Coleman, ed. (National Child Welfare Resource Center, 1997),
Adoption Healing, Sprenger, ed. (New Zealand Adoption Trust, 1997), and Post
Adoption Services: Emerging Themes, Issues and Interventions (Casey Family
Services, 1995).
She states that more than her degrees and honors, her most valuable credential
is that she has experienced life as an adopted person and she has love and
great respect for both her birth and adoptive families.
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