Mary Jo Barrett Author & Editor

Mary Jo Barrett, MSW,is the executive director and founder of the Center for Contextual Change. She is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, the Chicago Center for Family Health, and the Family Institute at Northwestern University. She has published numerous articles in the areas of family violence, compassion fatigue, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence. She has coauthored two books and numerous book chapters. Ms. Barrett has served as the director of Midwest Family Resource and has been working in the field of family violence since 1974.

Linda Stone Fish, MSW, PhD, is the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Syracuse University. She is the author of numerous research and theoretical articles and coauthor of Nurturing Queer Youth. Dr. Stone Fish has been training couple and family therapists for over 25 years and has been working with clients with a history of complex trauma for more than 30 years.