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Dr. Thorana Nelson has made significant and sustained contributions in the areas of family therapy education and supervision on local, national, and international levels. She has been a prolific scholar and trainer and is known for her contributions to solution-focused brief therapy and education and training in couple and family therapy and gender and LGBT issues and her organizational contributions to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, and the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association.
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Dr. Nelson received her M.S. and Ph.D. in counseling and human development from the University of Iowa, with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy. She is an emerita professor in marriage and family therapy from Utah State University, where she taught until her retirement in 2011. Prior to that, Dr. Nelson taught from 1986 to 1992 at Purdue University.
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Piercy, F. (2017). Nelson, Thorana. 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_785-1
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