youth. She has conducted international training and consultation to develop local capacities to strengthen families facing adversity, from conditions of poverty to major disasters, refugee displacement, and war-related strife She has refocused psychotherapy from family deficits to family strengths, deconstructing myths of "the normal family." She addresses the diversity, challenges, and resilience of families in the context of societal and global transformations. Informed by the research evidence that children and families can thrive in diverse relational structures, she identified key family processes and socio-cultural influences in risk and resilience. In collaboration with Monica McGoldrick, Walsh developed an approach to address complicated bereavement in families. She has advanced the use of broadly inclusive multi-faith perspectives in clinical practice, in her edited book, Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy. To bring attention to gender disparities in families and psychotherapy, she and colleagues Monica McGoldrick and Carol Anderson organized the Stonehenge Conferences that took place between 1984-1986. They also produced the edited book, Women in Families: A Framework for Family Therapy. she has also produced scholarship on the relational significance of companion animals and their benefits in health and wellbeing; role in family dynamics; and therapeutic benefits. Recognition President of American Family Therapy Academy. Editor of Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Presidential Citation for Outstanding Career of the American Psychological Association. Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice Award of the American Family Therapy Academy Distinguished Contributions in Marriage and Family Therapy Award of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Blanch Ittleson Award for Distinguished Career of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Books Normal Family Processes (1982) Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity (2016) Women in Families: A Framework for Family Therapy - McGoldrick, M., Anderson, C. (1989) Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family -McGoldrick, M. (1991, 2004) The Concept of Family Resilience: Crisis and Challenge (1996) Strengthening Family Resilience (1998, 2016) Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy (1999, 2009) Family Resilience: A Framework for Clinical Practice (2003) Traumatic Loss and Major Disasters: Strengthening Family and Community Resilience (2007) Human-Animal Bonds I: The Relational Significance of Companion Animals (2009) Human-Animal Bonds II: The Role of Pets in Family Systems and Family Therapy (2009) Applying a Family Resilience Framework in Training, Practice, and Research: Mastering the Art of the Possible (2016) A Family Developmental Framework: Challenges and Resilience Across the Life Cycle (2016) References American women psychologists 1942 births Living people