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Carmen Knudson-Martin, PhD, is a professor emerita of marriage and family therapy at Lewis & Clark’s Graduate School of Education and Counseling. She is an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) clinical fellow and approved supervisor, as well as a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is a long time member of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA). Dr. Knudson-Martin is highly influential in the field of family therapy, having edited numerous books, presented internationally, and authored many articles and chapters on sociocultural attunement, power, and equity. She is a co-author, along with Drs. McDowell & Bermudez, of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice. Dr. Knudson-Martin is a founder of Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy (SERT), which addresses the political and ethical implications of therapist actions on personal and relational development. Her text on the SERT model will be coming out soon. u

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.