Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience

About Froma Walsh

Froma Walsh MSW PhD is the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita in the Crown Family School of Social Work Policy and Practice and the Department of Psychiatry Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Family Health. Dr. Walsh is an internationally respected clinical scholar and a foremost authority on family resilience. Integrating developmental relational sociocultural and spiritual perspectives her resilience-oriented systemic approach with individuals couples and families fosters healing and positive adaptation. She is past editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and past president of the American Family Therapy Academy. Dr. Walsh is the recipient of many honors for distinguished contributions to theory research and practice including the Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association and awards from the American Family Therapy Academy the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy the American Orthopsychiatric Association and the Society for Pastoral Counseling Research. She is a frequent speaker and consultant internationally and her books have been translated into many languages.