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Janine Roberts, Ed.D. is a US family therapist, educator, and author. She is an avid promoter of international and transnational family therapy, and her work on family rituals, stories, self-disclosure, chronic illness, systemic applications to school settings, and approaches to working with street children has been disseminated throughout the Americas, Europe, Russia, East Africa, Turkey, Australia, Malaysia, and Guam.
Roberts is professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and a former Fulbright scholar. She received the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice. She was president of AFTA, associate editor of international scholarship for Family Process, served on numerous American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) committees, and was an AAMFT approved supervisor. She has taught in Latin America and Spain and has lived, worked, and...
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Imber-Black, E., & Roberts, J. (1998). Rituals for our times: Celebrating, healing, and changing our lives and our relationships. San Francisco: Jason Aronson.
Roberts, J. (1994). Tales and transformations: Stories in families and family therapy. New York City: W. W. Norton.
Roberts, J. (2005). Transparency and self-disclosure in family therapy: Dangers and possibilities. Family Process, 44(1), 45–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00041.x.
Roberts, J. (2009). The body alters. Northfield: Slate Roof Press.
Roberts, J. (2010). Teaching and learning with therapists who work with street children and their families. Family Process, 49(3), 385–404. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01329.x.
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Hernandez, P. (2019). Roberts, Janine. 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_1125-1
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