Philip and Carolyn Cowan

Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Psychology Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA

The Cowans are reknowned for designing couples group interventions to strengthen family relationships, guided by a family systems model in which intergenerational attachment patterns and couple relationship quality  provide the contexts in which effective parenting leads to positive cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes for children.This includes the current Parents as Partners internvention, which they devekoped from a US progrmame with Professors Marsha Kline Pruett and Kyle Pruett, delivered by Tavistock Relationships and funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.