Froma walsh biography sampler

Clinical Psychologist and family therapist

Froma Walsh (born ) is an American clinical psychologist and family therapist. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Chicago Center for Family Health and the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago.^[1]

Early life and education

Walsh grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Burbank, California.^[2] She received her BA in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley (), where she was involved in primate studies and was worked alongside Mark Rosenzweig (psychologist) and Marian Diamond on enriched environments in neuroplasticity.^[1] She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco (), in the women's center (foyers feminins) and in psychological services for maladapted youth.

She received an MSW at Smith College, Northampton, MA, with clinical practica at the Yale University Child Study Center and at the department of psychiatry ().^[3] She earn