Introduction
Lois Braverman has been a critical voice in the development of feminist family therapy, and in developing the field of family therapy through her superb organizational/leadership skills at the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA), and leading the Ackerman Institute for the Family.
Career
Lois Braverman received her Master’s degree in social work from the University of Iowa in 1976. In 1983 she became the Director of the Des Moines Education Center at the University of Iowa School of Social Work, where she was responsible for the masters of social work program for 124 graduate students and reshaped the clinical curriculum to reflect systemically oriented practice. Along with three colleagues, she founded and became Director of the Des Moines Family Therapy Institute in 1984, a family therapy training institute for post-masters practitioners which brought family therapy training throughout the state of Iowa. After practicing in Iowa for 30 years, she moved to New York City...
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Braverman, L. (1986a). The depressed woman in context: A feminist family therapist analysis. In M. Ault-Riche (Ed.), The family therapy collections: Women’s issues and family therapy. Rockville: Aspen Systems Corporation.
Braverman, L. (1986b). Social casework and strategic therapy. Social Casework: The Journal of Contemporary Social Work, 67, 234–239.
Braverman, L. (1986c). Reframing the female client’s profile. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 1(2), 30–40.
Braverman, L. (1986d). Beyond families: Strategic family therapy and the female client. Family Therapy, 13(2), 143–152.
Braverman, L. (Ed.). (1988a). Women. Feminism and family therapy. New York: Haworth Press..
Braverman, L. (1988b). Beyond the myth of motherhood. In M. McGoldrick, C. Anderson, & F. Walsh (Eds.), Women in families (pp. 227–243). New York: W.W. Norton Press.
Braverman, L. (1989). Mother-guilt. The Family Therapy Networker, 13(5), 46–47.
Braverman, L. (1990). Jewish mothers. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy., 2(2), 9–14.
Braverman, L. (1991). It’s bigger than both of us. In T. Goodrich (Ed.), Women and power: Perspectives for therapy. New York: W.W. Norton..
Braverman, L. (1992). The magical properties of worrying. Lilith, Spring, 31–32.
Braverman, L. (1995). Mothering and motherhood: Clinical implications. In J. Van Lawick & M. Sanders (Eds.), Gender and beyond. Amsterdam: Dutch Associate for Marital and Family Therapy.
Renee, R., Braverman, L., & Zuo, M. (2017). Interrogating the Limits of Trauma Language: A conversation on sexual abuse narratives and storytelling. Guernica. July1. https://www.guernicamag.com/interrogating-the-limits-of-trauma-language.
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Berman, E. (2018). Braverman, Lois. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1042-1
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