Professor, researcher, expert witness and author of numerous popular and scholarly publications on topics related to culture and violence against women and children. Author of 4 books:
* Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship (2015)
* Interviewing Clients across Cultures: A Practitioner’s Guide (2008)
* Child Abuse and Culture: Working with Diverse Families (2005)
* Sexual abuse in nine North American cultures: Treatment and prevention (1995).
Blog for PsychologyToday.com:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/invisible-chains
More than 25 years in the field of interpersonal violence and psychology. I train practitioners and scholars all over the world, but especially in the U.S. and Latin America, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Experience
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–presentSenior Lecturer, Specialty in Cultural Issues in Violence Against Women & Children, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Education
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1992University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Counseling Psychology
Honours
Cultural Competence Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC); also awarded Fulbright Foundation Grant to teach about Child Abuse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007.
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