Anne Fishel, PhD is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Family Dinner Project (TFDP) , a family therapist, clinical psychologist, and Associate Professor of Psychology at the Harvard Medical School. She is also Director of the Family and Couples Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she trains child and adult psychiatry residents and psychology interns in family therapy. She is also a co-author of Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook (Familius, 2019), written with other members of TFDP team.
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The executive director and co-founder of the Family Dinner Project provides some tips for having a peaceful and civil Thanksgiving dinner. -
Over three decades of research have shown that regular family meals offer a wide variety of physical, social-emotional and academic benefits. -
This case presentation highlights an important symptom, rumination, which is often under-treated in diagnosis-based approaches. Tolerating diagnostic ambiguity and "treating the symptoms" can sometimes be […] -
This case presentation highlights important issues pertinent to end of life care and identifies some of the challenges of providing palliative care during the pandemic. -
This video seminar, Self Care for the Mind and Body, addresses strategies for managing stress and taking care of yourself during the holidays. -
Dr. Anne Fishel, Director and Co-Founder, of the Family Dinner Project shares information on how to help children manage stress and anxiety during the pandemic, […]