Manijeh Daneshpour
Expert
Manijeh Daneshpour is a professor of marriage and family therapy in the department of couple and family therapy at Alliant International University in Irvine, California and a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of academic, research, and clinical experience. Dr. Daneshpour has served as the chair of Minnesota Board of Marriage and Family Therapy as well as chair of the election committee for the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapist. She is from Iran and identifies herself as a third wave feminist. Dr. Daneshpour main areas of research, publications, and presentations have been centered on issues of multiculturalism, social justice, third wave feminism, premarital and marital relationships, and Muslim family dynamics. She has studied Muslim families not as a religious group but as individuals, members of family units, and a distinct group within their own societal context. She has recently published a book titled: Family Therapy with Muslims using classic and contemporary family therapy theories in working with Muslim families cross culturally.
Education
PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling, University of Minnesota; LMFT
Areas of Expertise
- Multicultural Couples and Families
- Gender
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Race and Ethnicity
- Couple and Family Therapy
- Marital Satisfaction
- Social Justice
Publications
Community Brief: Promoting Healthy Marriages & Preventing Divorce in the American Muslim Community
Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Marriages &
24 June, 2014
Full Report: Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Marriages & Preventing Divorce in the American Muslim Community
As divorce becomes more prevalent among American M
24 June, 2014
Other Work
Muslim families and family therapy
Social axioms in Iran and Canada: Intercultural contact, coping and adjustment
Factors of successful marriage: Accounts from self described happy couples
Lives together, worlds apart? The lives of multicultural Muslim couples
Cancer’s impact on spousal caregiver health: A qualitative analysis in grounded theory
An examination of proactive coping and social beliefs among Christians and Muslims
Bridges crossed, paths traveled: Muslim intercultural couples
Couple therapy with Muslims: challenges and opportunities
Iranian successful family functioning: Communication
Self Described Happy Couples and Factors of Successful Marriage in Iran
A ‘mini-narrative” about my Praxis as a Muslim Feminist.
Cultural Neuroscience: Child and Adolescent Brain Development.
Cancer’s Impact on Caregiver Emotional Health: A Qualitative Analysis in Grounded Theory.
Self described happy couples and factors of successful marriage in Iran
Factors of successful marriage: Accounts from self-described happy couples
Bridges Crossed, Paths Traveled Muslim Intercultural Couples Manijeh Daneshpour
My immigration Journey from Iran to Utah!.