Jay Lebow

About Jay Lebow

Jay Lebow (1948-) is Clinical Professor of Psychology and senior scholar and senior therapist at the Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University. Since 2012, he has been editor in chief of the journal, Family Process. He has engaged in clinical practice of individual, couple, and family therapy, and of supervision, and research on couple and family therapy for over thirty years, and is board certified in family psychology and an approved supervisor and clinical member of American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is the author or editor of 12 books (including the recent Couple and Family Therapy: An Integrative Map of the Territory) and 150 book chapters and articles, most of which focus on practice of couple and family therapy, the relationship of research and practice, integrative practice, and intervention strategies with divorcing families. He served for many years on the Board of Directors and as a committee chair of the American Family Therapy Academy and is a past president of the Society for Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He is this year’s recipient of AFTA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Society of Family Pychology’s award for Family Psychologist of the year.

Experience

1. Psychologist

   The Family Institute at Northwestern University

   Sep 1999 — Present

   I see clients, teach, do research, and write. My practice consists of individual, couple and family therapy. I specialize in treating couples in couple therapy and couples and families going through divorce. I am editing the journal Family Process and the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family. I recently published the book Couple and Family therapy and edited the Clinical Handbook of Couple and Family Therapy and the Handbook of Family Therapy.

Education

• Northwestern University

  Ph.D.

  1970 — 1974

• Famly Institute of Chicago

  FamTherapy

  1979 — 1981

Skills

• Self-Esteem
• Motivational Interviewing
• Behavioral Health
• Psychological Assessment
• Adolescents
• Community Outreach
• Psychology
• Clinical Supervision
• Family Therapy
• Adolescent Therapy
• Stress
• Child Development
• Mental Health
• Mindfulness
• Stress Management
• Anger Management
• Mental Health Counseling
• Interventions
• Clinical Psychology
• Program Development
• Young Adults
• Life Transitions
• Cognition
• Social Services
• Treatment
• Therapists
• Crisis Intervention
• Clinical Research
• Psychotherapy
• Cbt
• Counseling Psychology
• Group Therapy