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• Marion Lindblad-Goldberg, Ph.D., Director of the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc.,and a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She was formerly Director of the Family Therapy Training Center of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center. She is also an Approved Supervisor in Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Lindblad-Goldberg has been a clinician, teacher, trainer, and researcher in the mental health field for 37 years. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and presented annually at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Conference. Her most recent book, Creating Competence from Chaos: A Comprehensive Guide to Home-Based Services, (co-authored with Martha Dore and Lenora Stern) was published by W. W. Norton, Inc. in 1998.

Dr. Lindblad-Goldberg is an expert on eco-systemic structural family therapy, supervision, step-families, single parent families, and spontaneity in therapy. She has specialized in innovative research with single parent families, writing numerous articles about this subject. From 1987 to 1994, Dr. Goldberg served as a trainer and directed the technical assistance and Training Initiative for the State of Pennsylvania's Mental Health Family-Based Services Training Initiative; since 1994, Dr. Goldberg has directed and served as a trainer in the Mental Health Family-Based Training Initiative in the Central, Northeast and Southeast portions of Pennsylvania.

• Ann Itzkowitz, M.A., licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist, and Approved Supervisor
  for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She has worked in a residential school for the mentally retarded, a day school for learning disabled and emotionally disturbed youngsters and at an outpatient mental health clinic.

She was on the staff of Philadelphia Child Guidance Center for 23 years and was a senior trainer in its Family Therapy Training Center for 20 years. Her primary responsibilities for twelve years were on the inpatient unit as clinician, supervisor, chief of clinical services and unit director. Mrs. Itzkowitz' areas of expertise include a family/systems approach to work with children in placement, professional burn-out, treatment of adolescents, and home-based training, which she has been doing since 1989. Mrs. Itzkowitz has presented extensively at local, regional and national conferences. In addition, she was on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and chaired its Committee on Supervision.