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Layne A Prest, PhD , LMFT has 30 years of experience working in primary care settings. Currently he is a faculty member in the University of Washington affiliated Family Medicine residency training program sponsored by the PHSW medical system in Vancouver, WA. He is in charge of behavioral health (BH) training for the family medicine residents, as well as the BH internship in which masters level couple and family therapy graduate students are trained in collaborative and integrated care models. In the residency clinic he provides primary care team based and integrated care to individuals, couples, and families. Dr. Prest is a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Society for Teachers of Family Medicine.

Teresa McDowell, Ed.D., LMFT is a professor emerita at Lewis & Clark, in Portland, Oregon, where she served as Department Chair and co-founded Lewis & Clark’s Problem Gambling Services. Dr. McDowell has served as a licensed marriage and family therapist, family therapy educator, program director, educational administrator, and consultant over the past 40 years. Her work has primarily focused on counselor education and workforce development, organizational consultation, international family therapy, equity-based clinical practice, integrated treatment for problem gambling, and clinical supervision. She currently serves as a social researcher, program evaluator, and consultant with Partners in Social Research and is the senior instructor for the Advanced Career Online Resource Network (ACORN). Dr. McDowell has published over 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters. She has presented her work at numerous conferences across eight countries. She is the author of Applying Critical Social Theory to Family Therapy Practice and first co-author of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Guidelines for Equity-Based Theory and Practice (1st and 2nd Editions). Her work in problem gambling treatment includes authoring the Working with Families in Problem Gambling Treatment handbook, research on core competencies for problem gambling counselors and prevention specialists, and extensive contributions to the development of Oregon’s problem gambling treatment workforce.