Ph.D., Columbia
Nancy Boyd-Franklin's special interests include multicultural issues; the treatment of African-American families; ethnicity and family
therapy; home-based family therapy; marital and couples therapy; the
multisystems approach to the treatment of poor inner-city families;
issues for women of color; the development of a model of therapeutic
support groups for African-American families living with AIDS; and
working with African-American children and adolescents. Her
publications include numerous articles and chapters on the aforementioned topics. She has written five books, including Black Families in Therapy:
A Multisystems Approach; Children, Families, and HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial
and Therapeutic Issues; Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based,
School, and Community Interventions, with Dr. Brenna Bry; and Boys into
Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons with Dr. Anderson J.
Franklin. In 2003, the second edition of her book Black Families in
Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience was
published.
Dr. Boyd's honors include the 2001 award for Outstanding Contributions
to the Field of Ethnic Minority Psychology and to the Mentoring of
Students from Division 45 of the American Psychological Association (APA), the award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Theory, Practice, and Research on Psychotherapy
with Women from Division 35 of the APA (1996), the Distinguished
Psychologist of the Year Award from the Association of Black
Psychologists (1994), and the Pioneering Contribution to the Field of
Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy.
