Join host Pam Kroskie and guest Dr. Joyce Maguire-Pavao February 15th 2pm ESTDr. Joyce Maguire Pavao has done extensive training, both nationally and internationally.She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has lectured atHarvard, Smith, Wellesley, UCLA, USC Antioch, among other universities.She has consulted various public and private child welfare agencies, adoptionagencies, schools, and community groups, as well as probate and family courtjudges, lawyers, and clergy. Additionally, she has worked closely withindividuals, couples, and families with adoption-related issues, foster careissues, guardianship and kinship.She has developed models for treatment, and for training using her systemic,intergenerational, and developmental framework The Normative Crises in theDevelopment of the Adoptive Family (Family Therapy News, 1982) her bookThe Family of Adoption (Beacon Press, 1998,2005) has received high acclaim.In addition, she is a contributing writer to Clinical Practice Issues inAdoption: Bridging the Gap Between Adoptees Placed as Infants and as OlderChildren, Groza and Rosenberg, ed. (Praeger Press, 1998), Creating Kinship,Roszia, Baran and Coleman, ed. (National Child Welfare Resource Center, 1997),Adoption Healing, Sprenger, ed. (New Zealand Adoption Trust, 1997), and PostAdoption Services: Emerging Themes, Issues and Interventions (Casey FamilyServices, 1995).She states that more than her degrees and honors, her most valuable credentialis that she has experienced life as an adopted person and she has love andgreat respect for both her birth and adoptive families.