JOSHUA COLEMAN, PHD

Joshua Coleman, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists, and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He is the author of several books, including Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict, and When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along. Dr. Coleman has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including Atlantic Magazine, Psychology Today, The New York Times, and CNN.com. He has television and radio appearances including on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, Sesame Street, and NPR.