Recipient of the AFTA 2006 Distinguished Research Award
Associate Professor
Department of Child and Family Development
The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
jgale@fcs.uga.edu
(706) 542-8435 work
(706) 354-8252 home

Jerry is the Director of Marriage and Family Therapy Program Associate Professor of Child and Family Development. His primary research interests have been on the language of change in therapy and mediation. Using discourse and conversation analysis he has been studying the process of change in therapy sessions and in mediation. More recently he has become interested in the construction of attachment for families of adopted children from China.  He is currently involved in a five year project investigating mediator skillfulness. Also doing discourse analysis of therapeutic discourse. He is also interested in the self of therapist, spirituality of therapist and in how learning occurs, effective teaching strategies and the construction of knowledge.