Lois Braverman tells us about her career journey to becoming the CEO of Ackerman Institute for the Family.

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Lois Braverman (Author & CEO, Ackerman Institute for the Family)


Lois Braverman, CEO of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, talks with Sarder correspondent Vaishali Jain, about her career journey from being a social worker in Iowa to the CEO of an important non-profit in New York City. She talks about her accomplishments as social worker in the field of psychotherapy in the state of Iowa, and her growing interest in family systems theory. Braverman tells her personal story of how she moved from being a therapist to individuals to family therapy to teaching other therapists what was then a revolutionary approach to family counseling which led to her current position at the Ackerman Institute.

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Lois Braverman

Author & CEO, Ackerman Institute for the Family

Lois Braverman, is President and CEO of the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Her many publications and international presentations challenge the assumptions implicit in major schools of family therapy about women’s role in the family, in the workplace, and in the psychotherapeutic setting. She is founding editor of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and author of the book : Women, Feminism and Family Therapy (The Haworth Press). Lois was the recipient of the 1994 American Family Therapy Academy’s “Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy Award” and the 2012 University of Iowa, College of Arts and Sciences’ Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Vaishali Jain

Vaishali Jain

Sarder TV Journalist, and Former Bloomberg TV Journalist

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