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Almeida, Rhea

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Introduction

Rhea Almeida, MS, PhD, is the founder and director of the Institute of Family Services in Somerset, NJ, and a former faculty member of Rutgers University School of Social Work. Dr. Almeida is co-founder of the Liberation-Based Healing Conference (LBHC) held annually in locations throughout the United States. Almeida is an internationally renowned leader in decolonizing couple and family therapy and developed the cultural context model of family therapy.

Career

Rhea Almeida was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda. She moved to the United States to attend Florida State University in Tallahassee for her undergraduate studies. She earned a BA in social work and psychology at Florida State University and an MS in social work at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Almeida completed her PhD in anthropology at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda.

From 1980 to 1987, Dr. Almeida was on the faculty of Rutgers University School of Social Work and completed her postgraduate...

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  • Almeida, R. (1993). Unexamined assumptions and service delivery systems: Feminist theory and racial exclusions. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 5, 3–23.

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  • Almeida, R. (2013). Cultural equity and displacement of othering. Article ID: acrefmrw-9780199975839-e-889. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefmrw/9780199975839.013.889.

  • Almeida, R. (in press). Liberation based healing practices. Somerset: Institute for Family Services.

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  • Almeida, R.V., Melendez, D., & Paéz, J. (2015). Liberation-based healing. Encyclopedia of Social Work. Online Publication Date: December 2015.

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  • Hernández, P., Siegel, A., & Almeida, R. (2009). How does the cultural context model facilitate therapeutic change? Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 35(1), 97–110.

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  1. Silberman School of Social Work Hunter College, New York, NY, USA

    Willie Tolliver

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jay Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, IL, USA

    Anthony Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, IL, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Kelley Quirk

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Adam R. Fisher

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Tolliver, W. (2019). Almeida, Rhea. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_1123-1

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