Morten Anker

CDOI Specialization Areas:
Implementing SRS/ORS in clinical practice and agency settings particularly with couples therapy, benchmarking CDOI in couples therapy, therapist differences in outcomes, CDOI supervision.

Morten Anker is a psychologist and a specialist in clinical and family psychology. He works at the family counseling office in Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway. He also has a private practice. Morten completed and published the largest RCT ever done with couples–a feedback study using the ORS and SRS. He was an “early adopter of CDOI and has presented the ideas for several years. Morten is part of the national roll out of the ORS/SRS in 64 family counseling agencies. Reach Morten at: morten.anker@bufetat.no  

George Braucht

CDOI Specialization Areas:
* Assisting administrators, managers, and direct service providers with transforming policies and practices into CDOI services.
* Training providers who serve mandated, mental health, substance abuse, crisis, and non-clinical persons.
* Developing CDOI continua of care including peer-based, outpatient, residential and institutional programs.
* Building CDOI public policy, funding, advocacy, and service alliances among professional, faith, peer and other indigenous recovery resources.

George Braucht applies a scientific, client-directed and outcome-informed approach to services for personal and community well-being. His engaging style and practical approach, combined with delivering rich content, have garnered excellent ratings in academic and applied settings, e.g., Frankin University; Kennesaw State University; DeVry Institute of Technology; and crisis, mental health, substance abuse, employee assistance, and criminal justice programs. So far, his three-decade career includes direct service, clinical supervision, program development, research, training, and teaching experience. He enjoys working with professional, para-professional, faith-based, and volunteer service providers. Mr. Braucht currently manages the residential facility review and development process for the Georgia (USA) Parole Board’s Transitional Housing for Offender Reentry Directory, and he assists with program development and clinical supervision in the Board’s Personal Recovery and Offender Discharge Services program. He is the Principal Collaborator with Brauchtworks Consultation and Training. In addition, George serves on the Editorial Board of Corrections Compendium, the American Correctional Association’s peer-reviewed research journal, and has authored numerous professional publications. Reach George at: brauchtworks@yahoo.com

CDOI Specialization Areas:
CDOI in family therapy, child and adolescent mental health, child protection and social services, the connection between CDOI work and therapists’ professional development.

Tor Fjeldstad lives in Voss, near Bergen in Western Norway. He is a Master of Social Work, with clinical training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and in Family Therapy. He works at Voss Hospital, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Outpatient Clinic and is teacher in family therapy at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Bergen. Tor is the beginning phase of pilot project that will not only implement CDOI but will also examine the therapist development during the implementation process. Reach Tor at: Tor.Fjeldstad@rbup.uib.no

Robyn Pope

CDOI Specialisation Areas – Across agency and cross cultural implementation – implementation of the ORS and SRS in a wide variety of settings including residential youth services- group homes and foster care, community work with isolated older people, older people transitioning into residential care, counselling, youth and family community services.

Robyn Pope- BA (Ed Psych), Masters of Welfare Policy, Diploma Teaching (Sec), is the Practice Manager at Wesley Community Action in Wellington New Zealand. She is an accredited trainer in the Strengths Based Framework and has been responsible for the implementation of this framework throughout Wesley Community Actions services. Robyn is committed to social justice and places the Treaty of Waitangi- the founding document between first nations people of New Zealand (Maori) and the Crown as a key framework for her work and interactions – including the implementation of CDOI. Reach Robyn at: RPope@wesleyca.org.nz

CDOI Specialization Areas:
“Critical psychiatry,” CDOI in child and adolescent psychiatry particularly behaviour problems and cross cultural perspectives, relationship between mental health and politics, and applying CDOI in day to day psychiatric practice.

Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Director of Postgraduate Education in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Lincoln, UK. He writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to child and adolescent mental health and is a member of the International Critical Psychiatry network (see http://www.criticalpsychiatry.net/) . He has published articles on eating disorders, psychotherapy, behavioural disorders and cross-cultural psychiatry. He has authored Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood, published in 2002, Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture, published in 2005, and Misunderstanding ADHD: A Complete Guide for Parents to Alternatives to Drugs published in 2007. He co-edited with Begum Maitra Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health published in 2006, with Carl Cohen Liberatory Psychiatry: Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health published in 2008, and with Jonathan Leo Rethinking ADHD currently in press. Reach Sami at: stimimi@talk21.com

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