Bill Doherty
 Bill Doherty is a family man—both personally and professionally. He and his wife Leah make their home in Roseville, Minnesota where they raised two children; and Doherty is a professor of family social science and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota. He places great value on time together, having grown up in a tight-knit Irish-American working class family where "family-time was the highest priority." And when Doherty’s children were young he restricted his travel to emphasize the importance of family rituals. He also has a marriage and family therapy practice, which he has maintained for twenty-two years. A sought after public speaker, Doherty presents talks and workshops across the nation on family-life issues such as developing family rituals, health care, ethics and morality, fatherhood, and taking back family time. He is also the author of , “The Intentional Family” and Take Back Your Marriage. He has published numerous academic articles including Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility.
Receiving widespread acclaim, Soul Searching was the stimulus for the creation of a national network of forums for practicing therapists, challenging the mental health community for neglecting the valued dimensions of therapy He is the immediate past president of the National Council on Family Relations, the nation’s oldest family studies and family education organization, and is co-director of the Family Healthcare Coalition. In 1992, Doherty was awarded the Significant Contribution to the Field of Marriage and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the University of Minnesota’s McFarland Creative Teaching Award in 1990. In 1997, The Utne Reader named Doherty one of the 10 most visionary therapists in America. Doherty received a degree in Philosophy in 1968 from St. Paul’s College, Washington, D.C., and a master’s in Theology in 1970. In 1974, he received a master’s in Child Development and Family Relations from the University of Connecticut and obtained a Ph.D. in Family Studies in 1978.
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