Dr. Sharon Bond, Associate Professor

Dr. Sharon Bond, Associate Professor joined the McGill School of Social Work as a faculty member in 1998, serving as Coordinator of the McGill Couple and Family Clinic (MCFC). She is Associate Member, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine. She pioneered the development of the MCFC, a couple and family treatment centre, which was integrated into the Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in 2006. The McGill Couple and Family Clinic offers a rich, in-depth clinical placement for students interested in developing expertise in the area of couple and family therapy and over the years has become a highly desirable clinical internship for students across disciplines. The MCFC serves as a clinical facility and training site for the School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and provides unique opportunities for professional development for social work and psychology graduate students, who are interested in completing a specialization in couple and family therapy and psychiatry residents, who select an elective in family therapy. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at McGill School of Social Work, Dr. Bond is the Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Training Program, a post-graduate couple and family therapy program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).

Her main academic project has been the development a new 60 credit clinical Master’s Program in Couple and Family Therapy (M.Sc., Applied in Couple and Family Therapy) under the auspices of the School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry -Jewish General Hospital. This program has received a positive Avis from CREPUQ's Commission d'évaluation des projets de programmes (CEP) and is awaiting final government approval before official program launch. The Master’s degree will provide entry for couple and family therapy certification in Quebec, and candidates will see it as an important first step in securing clinical membership in AAMFT (and thereby achieving wider professional recognition in Canada and the United States for their special expertise). In keeping with the tradition of a multidisciplinary approach in Couple and Family Therapy, the proposed degree will draw across multiple disciplines in its curriculum including such fields as Social Work, Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychology and Counselling Psychology. McGill University is at a unique advantage as it has established links with renowned scholars in these fields. Furthermore, the fact that the degree will be offered in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital will allow for the possibility of not only research development but sharing academic expertise. Faculty for this new degree will include tenure and non-tenure-track professors from McGill University (School of Social Work, Department of Psychiatry, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Department of Psychology) and faculty from the Couple and Family Therapy Program, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital. This program will integrate the academic excellence of McGill University, a research intensive university with the clinical excellence of the Couple and Family Therapy training program, Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis, Jewish General Hospital. Dr. Bond’s years of clinical, supervisory and training experience with couples and families inform her teaching, research and community interests.

Education

Ph.D. (McGill University) 2004

MSW (McGill University) 1975

BSc (Université de Montréal) 1974

Employment

2005-present Director
Couple and Family Therapy Program
Department of Psychiatry - Jewish General Hospital

2005-present Faculty Lecturer
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine
McGill University

2000-present Professional Associate
School of Social Work, McGill University
Coordinator McGill Couple and Family Clinic

1989-2000 Faculty Lecturer
1999 Adjunct Professor
School of Social Work, McGill University

1999-present Faculty and Clinical supervisor
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry

1978-present Private Practitioner

1977-1993 Couple and Family Therapy Service
CLSC Metro
Montreal, Quebec

1993-1998 Psycho-social Courants
Enfance Famille Jeunesse
CLSC Metro

1975-1977 Montreal General Hospital
Social Service Department

Areas of interest

• Couple and Family therapy outcome research
• Couple and Family therapy process research - Therapeutic Alliance
• Attachment Styles and Couple Conflict
• Supervisory Alliance and Student Self-Efficacy

Recent grants

2008   Winner of le Prix RUFUTS

2004   McGill Teaching and Learning Improvement Fund   $10,700

2003   Mini-Beatty Memorial Lecture   $3,000

2000   Mini-Beatty Memorial Lecture   $4,000

Bond, S. (2009). Couple and family therapy: The evolution of the profession with Social Work at its core. Intervention, Revue de l'Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec, Numéro 131, 128- 138.

Bond, S., Bond, M (2007) Book Review: Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis. Carter, C. S., Ahnert, L., Grossmann, K. E., Hrdy, S. B., Lamb, M. E., Porgers, S. W., and Sachser, N. (Eds.). (2006). Cambridge: The MIT Press. In The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Bond, S. (2006).  The Relationship between supervision process, structured training of supervisors, and supervisee self-efficacy.

Bond, S. (2006). An Intergenerational Attachment Lens Applied to a Case of Conjugal Violence: Clinical Guidelines for Social Work Practitioners.

Bond, S., Bond, M. & Miresco, M. (2006). Book Review: Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies. Klaus E. Grossmann, Karin   Grossmann and Everett Waters. New York: Guilford Publications (2005). In The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 194, Number 10, 805-806.

Bond, S. and Bond, M. (2004). Attachment styles and violence within couples. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192, 857-863.

Bond, S. 2004. Predicting the emotional variables in a clinical population of discordant couples with a history of conjugal violence

Bond, S. (2002). "Emphasizing the Interpersonal in Psychotherapy: Families and Groups in the Era of Cost Containment", Intervention 115, 147-148.

Bond, S. (1997). Les systèmes violents et la therapie familiale: Lìntegration dans les approches systémiques et féministes. Cri-Viff, Center de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la violence familiale et la violence faite aux femmes, 7, 43-49.