Elliott J. Rosen

Elliott J. Rosen, Ed.D., LMFT is Director of the Family Institute of Westchester. A clinical member
and approved supervisor of The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the
American Family Therapy Academy, he serves on the national faculty of the National Hospice and
Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and was chair of the Research/Academic section of the
National Council of Hospice Professionals. For seven years he was Associate Professor of Psychology
at Pace University in White Plains, New York and directed the behavioral science curriculum of the
graduate Physician Assistant program at Mercy College, in Dobbs Ferry, NY; he also serves as family
therapy consultant to Phelps Memorial Hospice in Sleepy Hollow, NY. In addition to his private
practice and his work at FIW, he lectures extensively on marriage and family issues, ethnicity, and
the grieving process. He is also a Parent Coordinator, working with parents in high conflict divorce to
better parent their children.  (For more on this, you may access the website of
WWW.
WestchesterParentCoordination.org)
Dr. Rosen is the author of Families Facing Death: A guide for health care professionals and
volunteers,
published by Jossey-Bass, as well as numerous articles and papers on death, grief,
gender, ethnicity, and family therapy. He is particularly involved in the area of bioethics, serving on
the Ethics Committees of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and Phelps Memorial
Hospital Center, and he is chair of the New York AMFT ethics committee. He was founder of the
Bioethics Committee of Jansen Memorial Hospice and served as its chair for many years. If you
would like to order a copy of Dr. Rosen’s book,
Families Facing Death, click here.