Froma C. Walsh Froma C. Walsh
Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita of Clinical Social Work in the Social Service Administration and the Department of Psychiatry; Co-Director, Center for Family Health

Areas of Expertise:

  • Aging: End of life issues, death, dying, and bereavement
  • Family: Family resilience, contemporary family diversity and challenges, family and couples therapy, systemic and family developmental theory, death in the family, death, dying, and bereavement
  • Gender: Changing gender roles
  • Human Development: Family resilience, end of life issues
  • Mental Health: Stress, coping, and resilience, recovery from trauma and loss, human development
  • Social Work: Spirituality and social work
Media Contact:
William Harms
(773) 702-8356
w-harms@uchicago.edu

Background:

Walsh also is a member of the Department of Psychiatry and the Pritzker School of Medicine, and she is co-director of the Center for Family Health. She has published extensively in the areas of family systems and family therapy. Her books include: Strengthening Family Resilience (1998); Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy (1999/2003); Normal Family Processes (2003); Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family (1991/1995); Women in Families (1989/1993); and Chronic Disorders and the Family (1988).

A recognized authority, Walsh is a frequent speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops worldwide. She is the past editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and has served on the boards of numerous journals and professional associations. She is former president of the American Family Therapy Academy and is recipient of their Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy, Theory and Practice award, among other awards in her field.

News clippings:
Family secrets buried under weight of shame
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
March 21, 2007

"Separate vacations can work--carefully"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
August 1, 2004

 Press releases:

Professorships at University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration to advance research on mental health and major urban problems
July 5, 2006

Family Values: The Next Step
November 4, 1996
Chronicle articles:
SSA conference to feature social work of Froma Walsh
October 4, 2007

Faculty members receive DSPs and named chairs
September 21, 2006

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