Dr. Walter Smith, Jr., a founding faculty member of the Western Pennsylvania Family Centre in Pittsburgh, PA, will present on violence in the family and society with a focus on child abuse. Dr. Smith brings a wealth of clinical experience and research to the topic of child abuse and domestic violence from a Bowen theory perspective.
Dr Smith’s presentations are based on his professional experience as a psychologist, a clinical director, and executive director of Family Resources, a child abuse treatment and prevention organization in Pittsburgh. The agency serves more than 6,000 families each year. For more than a decade, he has treated and supervised hundreds of cases of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, and severe child neglect.
Dr. Smith also maintains a private practice and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Psychology Program at Duquesne University. He has presented lectures and conferences on child abuse and family emotional process throughout the US.
"Child abuse is a symptom of human functioning because it reflects basic emotional processes. Individuals and families do not choose their symptoms. Given enough stress, individuals and families will develop them." Dr Walter Smith, Jr.,
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