Constance Ahrons
Professor Emerita, University of Southern California
Phone:
858-945-4911
Email:
cahrons@usc.edu
Topics of Expertise:
Aging (Public Policy) / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention / Family Law / Feminism & Families / Loss & Resiliency within Families / Marriage & Divorce / Step-Families
The recipient of numerous citations and awards, including the prestigious “Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Research Award” presented by the American Family Therapy Academy, the 1995 “Outstanding Achievement Award” presented by the Wisconsin Literary Association and the 2010 Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Distinguished Research Award. Dr. Ahrons has numerous publications on divorce and remarriage and is an internationally known researcher and speaker.
Constance Ahrons is the author of We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorce (HarperCollins, 2004), The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart (HarperCollins Perennial, 1998), now in its seventeenth printing, and co-author of Divorced Families: Meeting the Challenges of Divorce and Remarriage. She is Professor emerita of Sociology and former director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Training Program at the University of Southern California. For thirteen years prior to that she was on the social work faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 2000-2001, she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was the founding co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families. The recipient of numerous citations and awards, including the prestigious “Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Research Award” presented by the American Family Therapy Academy and the 1995 “Outstanding Achievement Award” presented by the Wisconsin Literary Association, Dr. Ahrons has numerous publications on divorce and remarriage and is an internationally known researcher and speaker.
Constance Ahrons resides in San Diego and is Director, Divorce and Remarriage Consulting Services.
