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William Madsen (b. 1954)
Introduction
Bill Madsen, founder and director of the Family-Centered Services Project, is a widely influential family therapist and author based in Watertown, Massachusetts, and author of the seminal monograph, Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families, now in its second edition. Madsen’s more recent book with co-author Kevin Gillespie, Collaborative Helping, A Strengths Framework for Home-Based Services, furthers Madsen’s focus on the provision of social services informed by and tailored after the insider knowledge of clients and frontline service providers.
Career and Contributions
Following his graduation with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from Boston University, Madsen combined direct clinical work in a variety of settings, much of it community based, with adjunct teaching in family therapy and clinical psychology at a number of institutions, including University of Massachusetts, Boston; Antioch New England Graduate School;...
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Madsen, W. C. (2007). Collaborative therapy with multi-stressed families (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
Madsen, W. C. (2014a). Taking it to the streets: Family therapy and family-centered services. Family Process, 53(3), 380–340.
Madsen, W. C. (2014b). Applications of collaborative helping maps: Supporting professional development, supervision and work teams in family-centered practice. Family Process, 51(1), 3–21.
Madsen, W. C. (2016). Narrative approaches to organizational development: A case study of implementation of collaborative helping. Family Process, 55(2), 253–269.
Madsen, W. C., & Gillespie, K. (2014). Collaborative helping: A strengths framework for home-based services. New York: Wiley.
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Paré, D. (2019). Madsen, William. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_1008
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