DOWLING COLLEGE NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2004
OAKDALE, NY * Dr. Marvin Goldfried, Professor, Psychotherapy
Integration; Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook, will present a talk entitled,
"What Mainstream Psychology Needs to Know About Gay,
Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues," on Wednesday, February
18 at 5:45 p.m. in the Fortunoff Hall Hunt Room on Dowling
College's Rudolph Campus in Oakdale. The event is free and
open to the public.
Dr. Goldfried received his Ph.D. from the State University
of New York at Buffalo in 1961. His past work has been on
the investigation of the process of change in psychotherapy,
comparing different theoretical orientations for both common
and unique processes.
Currently, he is involved in clinical and research issues
associated with gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals. He
has developed AFFIRM: Psychologists Affirming their Gay, Lesbian,
and Bisexual Family, and is cofounder of the Society for the
Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and past president
of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.
Among his numerous awards is the American Psychological Association
(APA) Division of Clinical Psychology's 1998 award for Distinguished
Research Contributions to Clinical Psychology, the Division
of Psychotherapy's Award for Distinguished Psychologist in
the year 2000, the 2001 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions
to Knowledge, the 2002 Division 1 Staats Award for Contributions
Toward Unifying Psychology, and the 2003 Association for the
Advancement of Behavior Therapy Award for Outstanding Clinical
Contributions. He is founding Editor of In Session: Psychotherapy.
For more information on this event, please contact Dr. Christian
Perring, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dowling College,
at (631) 244-3349 or e-mail perringc@dowling.edu
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that
serves more than 7,000 students at its historic Rudolph Campus
on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the
105-acre Brookhaven Center in eastern Long Island. Dowling
offers Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation,
Business, and Education.
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For more information, contact: Art Flanagan
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