Revisiting Politics and Relational Thinking in an Evolving World Crisis
Speakers: Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH, and Manijeh Daneshpour, PhD
Description: COVID19 challenged our lives, our professional ethos. It furthered the need for an ecosystemic approach highlighting the relevance of transdisciplinary understanding. In this presentation, we share our journeys in Chile, Iran, and the United States of America, and discuss the struggles and lessons we learned utilizing ethics of care. The main goal is to inform our research and clinical practices our engagement with health professionals, shaping public policies, media messages, and politics.
Speakers Bios:
Gonzalo Bacigalupe is a professor of counseling psychology at the School of Education Human Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Research Associate at CreaSur at the University of Concepción in Chile. Besides his family therapy
expertise, he is a public health researcher carrying on projects related to disaster resilience and presently challenging the COVID19 government policies in Chile. He is a candidate to the Constitutional Convention, a political body that will rewrite the Chilean constitution.
Dr . Manijeh Daneshpour is the systemwide couple and family therapy
director and dist inguished professor of mar r iage and family therapy at
Alliant Internat ional University in California. She is also a licensed
mar r iage and family therapist with more than two decades of
academic, research, and clinical exper ience. She is from Iran and
ident ifies herself as a third wave feminist . Dr . Daneshpour 's main
areas of research, publicat ions, and presentat ions have been centered
on issues of mult iculturalism, social just ice, postmodernism, third
wave feminism, and premar ital and mar ital relat ionships.
**Recorded from a virtual presentation for the Family Process 60th Anniversary Conference and Celebration, "The Heart of the Matter: Systemic Imperatives to Address Health Disparities and Racism in the Time of COVID."
21 August 2021, Washington D.C.
