Gregory B. Howard Ph.D. has taught as an assistant professor for SDSU-West River Graduate Center since 1998. He received the Ph.D. from an AAMFT-accredited program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Texas Tech University in 1991, where he graduated with honors as an elected member of the academic honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. He received the M.S.W. degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1982, and holds the highest level of licensure as a clinical social worker in South Dakota.

 A member of the graduate faculty at SDSU, Dr. Howard teaches courses in Counseling the Family, Pre-Practicum, and Postmodernism and the Discursive Therapies. In 2005 he published a coauthored article in the Journal of Systemic Therapies titled: Shared Influence: A Narrative Approach to Teaching Narrative Therapy. In 2006 he was awarded Outstanding Faculty in Counseling and Human Resource Development at SDSU-WRGC.

He has presented at the Texas Association for Marriage and Family therapy conference, and his doctoral dissertation work on Birth Timing and the Effects of Parenthood was presented at a conference of the National Council on Family Relations. Dr. Howard’s nineteen years of clinical experience includes working with families, couples, and individuals in various clinical settings in the Black Hills area since 1991, as well as a clinical position held in the interim between his graduate degrees. Currently he is in private practice, which he opened in 2004. Dr. Howard is especially interested in language in therapy, systemic, and post-systemic, social constructionist approaches to therapy. He is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a member of the National Association of Social Workers. He is a performing guitarist, and his hobbies also include chess and Kung Fu. He is married and has two grown children.

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