Ginger Welch

author and editor of "Family Resilience and Chronic Illness: Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives"

December 7, 2016

Dr. Welch holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Oklahoma State University, as well as a master's degree in child development. She is a licensed health services psychologist in the State of Oklahoma, and worked in private practice for five years before coming to the HDFS department in fall 2012. She is a graduate of both the Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium, and the postdoctoral fellowship program in Child Clinical and Pediatric Psychology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She has previously been employed at OUHSC as a pediatric psychologist in neonatology, as well as a child guidance specialist for the state of Oklahoma. She holds certifications in early childhood education and school counseling, and this is her eleventh year teaching in higher education.

"Family Resilience and Chronic Illness: Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives" is an interdisciplinary volume that offers theoretical, empirical, and practical insights into the strengths of families beset by chronic health issues. Featuring topics that run the lifespan from infancy to late adulthood, its coverage reflects both the diversity of family challenges in long-term illness and the wealth of effective approaches to intervention. The component skills of resilience in life-changing circumstances, from coping and meaning making to balancing care and self-care, are on rich display in a framework for their enhancement in therapy. The book's expert contributors include tools to aid readers in the learning and teaching of concepts as they model respectful, meaningful research methods and ethical, non-judgmental practice.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2017-honorees-b/ginger-welch

Last Updated: 12 January 2022