Contemporary Family Therapy - Introducing our New Editor-in-Chief

Rachel Tambling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Connecticut. She received her MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Western Michigan University and PhD in Child and Family Development with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy from University of Georgia. Dr. Tambling’s research is centered on service utilization issues in mental health care. She is specifically interested in client engagement and client processes of change during psychotherapy. Dr. Tambling is also interested in health equity, including expanding the availability of couple and family therapy to populations who typically do not access or fail to benefit from therapy, particularly traditionally underserved groups (i.e. racial/ethnic minorities, lower SES couples and families, individuals with severe mental illness). By understanding the complex components of effective engagement and change during therapy, researchers, therapists, and other stakeholders are able to work together to improve treatment outcomes.