Ph.D., Columbia University
Nancy
Boyd-Franklin is an African American, a clinical psychologist, and a Distinguished
Professor at Rutgers University in the Graduate School of Applied and
Professional Psychology. She is the
author of numerous professional articles and chapters and seven books including:
Black Families in Therapy: A Multisystems
Approach (Guilford Press, 1989) and an editor of Children, Families and HIV/AIDS (Guilford Press, 1995). Her books
include Reaching Out in Family Therapy:
Home-based, School and Community Interventions with Dr. Brenna Bry
(Guilford Press, 2000) and Boys Into Men:
Raising Our African American Teenage Sons with Dr. A.J. Franklin. (Plume,
2001). The second edition of Black
Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience was published in 2003. Her book entitled
Therapy in the Real World: Effective Treatments
for Challenging Problems was
released by Guilford Press in 2013. Her most recent book entitled Working with At-Risk Adolescents: Home-Based
Family Therapy and School-Based Achievement Mentoring with Dr. Brenna Bry was published in
2018.
An internationally recognized lecturer and
author, Dr. Boyd-Franklin has written articles on issues such as the Multisystems Model, multicultural
treatment approaches, cultural competency, ethnicity and family therapy, the
treatment of African-American families, extended family issues, spirituality
and religion, home-based family therapy, group therapy for black women, HIV and
AIDS, parent and family support groups, and community empowerment.
Dr. Boyd-Franklin has received
numerous awards from professional organizations. These have included: an Honorary Doctorate
from the Phillips Graduate Institute in 2006; the Janet Helms Award for
mentoring and scholarship from the Teachers College Multicultural Roundtable in 2013; the Ernest E. McMahon
Award from Rutgers University in 2005 for the development of a creative,
multilevel community intervention; and the Solomon Carter Fuller Award from the
American Psychiatric Association in 2005 for outstanding contributions to the
field through scholarship and programs related to the treatment of African
Americans. The Graduate Student Association at Rutgers (GSAPP) in 2004 gave her
the Professor of the Year Award. In 2003, she received the Ethnic and Racial
Diversity Award from the National Council of Schools of Professional
Psychology. Division 43 of the American Psychological Association acknowledged
her work with the Family Psychologist of the Year Award in 2003. In 2001, she
received the Drs. Charles and Shirley Thomas Award from Division 45 of the
American Psychological Association. She received the Outstanding Contribution
to the Field Award from the Association of Black Social Workers in 2001 and
the Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award from the Association of
Black Psychologists in 1994. In 1995,
she was invited by President Bill Clinton to present her community and family
interventions at the first White House Conference on AIDS.
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