The Helping Relationship: Healing and Change in Community Context

Contributors

235 Contributors Editors Augustine Meier, PhD, is a certified clinical psychologist in private practice and a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Human Sciences, Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He provides advanced training in object relations therapy and self psychology. For more than 20 years, he taught graduate courses in psychotherapy and psychopathology and trained graduate students in individual counselling. He has co-authored over 40 articles on psychotherapy and psychopathology in refereed journals. He is the editor of In Search of Healing and a co-editor of The Challenge of Forgiveness, Spirituality and Health: Multidisciplinary Explorations, and Through Conflict to Reconciliation. Dr. Meier and Micheline Boivin published Counselling and Therapy Techniques: Theory and Practice (Sage). Professor Meier is the founder and president of the Ottawa Institute for Object Relations Therapy. Martin Rovers, PhD, is a professor and an AAMFT-approved supervisor in the Faculty of Human Sciences, Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He is the coordinator of the Certificate in Couple Counselling and Spirituality and provides training and supervision within the master’s program. Dr. Martin has published several books, including Healing the Wounds in Couple Relationships (Novalis, 2005) and Through Conflict to Reconciliation (co-editor, Novalis, 2007), and numerous refereed articles. He has written extensively on the synthesis of attachment theory and family of origin theory, in a new approach that he termed Attachment in Family Therapy (AFT). Dr. Martin is a psychologist and marriage and family therapist and has his own private practice. 236 Contributors Contributing Authors Micheline Boivin, MA, is a certified clinical psychologist working with traumatized children and their parents at the Programme enfance jeunesse famille du centre local des services communautaires de Gatineau, Québec. She is the author of “L’exploitation sexuelle des enfants: Ouvrir les yeux and tendre la main,” published in In the Search of Healing, and the co-author of “The Treatment of Depression: A Case Study Using Theme-Analysis,” published in the journal Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. She has coauthored articles on psychotherapy published in refereed journals, presented workshops on child sexual abuse and the use of puppets in child therapy, and co-presented advanced workshops on the use of mental imagery in psychotherapy. Micheline Boivin and Dr. Meier published Counselling and Therapy Techniques: Theory and Practice (Sage). Shelley Briscoe-Dimock, PhD (Cand.), is an individual and couple therapist in private practice in Ottawa. She is a Canadian certified counsellor and certified object relations therapist. She obtained her BA (Honours) in psychology from Carleton University and is currently completing her PhD in counselling and spirituality at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. She has given workshops and presented at various conferences in the area of object relations couple therapy. She has co-published in the Journal of Relationship and Couple Therapy (2006). Her research interests include the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship in individual and couple therapy as well as the needs underlying maladaptive patterns in distressed couple relationships. The Rev. Marsha Cutting, PhD, is an associate professor of pastoral care and counselling at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Waterloo, ON. She is a board certified chaplain. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Dr. Cutting’s research areas are supervision research and religiosity scales. She currently is Contributors 237 conducting research through a web-based survey, The Religiosity Scales Project. She also studies clergy careers and impediments to religious participation by mental health services recipients. In her free time, she sails, plays folk music, reads mysteries, and listens to jazz. John Dimock, MB Ch B., Dip. Psych., FRCPC, is in private practice of psychiatry in Ottawa and Stittsville, ON, and is the consultant psychiatrist to the Canadian Armed Forces, Petawawa Base. He was previously a clinical assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and the director of Ottawa Family Court Clinic, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, where he worked for 10 years after completing undergraduate training at Birmingham Medical School, UK, and a postgraduate residency in the University of Ottawa program. He completed a clinical fellowship in forensic psychiatry and worked in the Ottawa Forensic Psychiatry Program, both at the Family Court Clinic and at the Adult Forensic Sexual Behaviours Clinic. He then entered private practice and worked as the consultant psychiatrist to the Armed Forces at Health Care Clinic Ottawa 1996–99. After 9/11, he worked in Pennsylvania and returned to full-time private practice in 2003. He now works in Ottawa, Stittsville, and Petawawa. He has three book...