Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine and Director of the Family Programs and the Wynne Center for Family Research in Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She is known for her publications in the areas of medical family psychology, family systems medicine, and family therapy supervision and consultation. Her special areas of interest are assisted reproductive technologies, somatization, genetic testing, and gender and health. She is a frequent speaker at meetings of both health and mental health professionals.
Dr. McDaniel is coeditor, with Thomas Campbell, MD, of the multidisciplinary journal, Families, Systems, & Health, and serves on several other journal boards. She coauthored or coedited the following books: Systems Consultation (1986), Family-Oriented Primary Care (1990), Medical Family Therapy (1992), Integrating Family Therapy (1999), Counseling Families with Chronic Illness (1995), and The Shared Experience of Illness (1997), two of which have been translated into several languages.
Dr. McDaniel was Chair of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education in 1998, and President of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1999. APA recognized her as the 1995 Family Psychologist of the Year. In 1998 she was the first psychologist to be a Fellow in the Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship, and in 2000 she will receive the award for Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy from the American Family Therapy Academy.
Don-David Lusterman, PhD, is in private practice in Baldwin, New York. He founded the Program in Family Counseling at Hofstra University (1973). Dr. Lusterman was the founding Executive Director of the American Board of Family Psychology (now part of ABPP). He is an ABPP Diplomate in Family Psychology, a Fellow of the APA and of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and he was named APA Family Psychologist of the Year (1987).
Coauthor (with the late Jay Smith) of The Teacher as Learning Facilitator: Psychology and the Educational Process (1979), coeditor of Integrating Family Therapy (1995), and author of numerous articles and book chapters, he is also a consulting editor for the Journal of Family Psychology and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Family Therapy.
Carol L. Philpot, PhD, is Dean and Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, where she directs the marriage and family track and teaches psychology of gender. She was the founder of Community Psychological Services of Florida Tech, a training clinic for upper-level doctoral students. She is a Fellow of the APA, a past president of APPS Division of Family Psychology, a member of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA), and an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor.
Dr. Philpot is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Family Psychology and The Family Psychology and Counseling Series, has authored numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of gender-sensitive psychotherapy, clinical training, family assessment, and therapy and divorce and has presented nationally. She has been quoted in Bridal Guide, Bride, New Woman, Ladies Home Journal and Redbook magazines and is a regular contributor to the Sexy Seniors column in Florida Today's Generation Plus.
Dr. Philpot is a licensed psychologist and a licensed marriage and family therapist. Her book titled Bridging Separate Gender Worlds: Why Men and Women Clash and How Therapists Can Bring Them Together was published by APA in 1997.
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