Hall family reunion summer 2004 - Dr. Hall is the oldest guy on the slide
(Seattle, Washington)
Dr. Hall is a practicing child, adolescent, and family psychiatrist who has guided hundreds of families since 1983 and helped them find solutions to frustrating family conflicts. He is married, has two grown sons, one married, a daughter-9n-law, and two grandsons.
Greetings from Dr. Dave Hall, I am a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist in private practice in Seattle since 1983, when I completed nine years of medical and psychiatric training at the University of Washington.
My web site and book seek to empower families in emotional distress to find effective ways to heal themselves.
This project gets its inspiration from all the children and families I've worked with since I began working with chidren and teenagers as a college student.
People coming to me for help have included children as young as two years and as old as eighty-nine. Most of my work comes by referral from colleagues and former patients. I have developed special expertise in helping families overburdened by physical brain disorders including depression, moodswings, alcohol abuse, and attentional difficulties. Many longer term patients grew up knowing the scourge of childhood maltreatment, often as a consequence of parental mental illness. These families and individuals inspired me to summarize in a book the information I was sharing with them about how to heal themselves and their families. Stop Arguing and Start Understanding: Eight Steps to Solving Family Conflicts is the result.
One parent committed to bringing an atmosphere of love and understanding to the family can create the necessary change if your goals are clear and your strategies are consistent with those goals.
I know. I come from a pretty big family.
Hall family reunion summer 2004 - Dr. Hall is the oldest guy on the slide
Anne Hall and I celebrate our thirty-seventh wedding anniversary in June 2007. Both our sons weathered their parents well enough and are happily married, and our older's two boys are now 6 and 3 years old. Anne is the associate minister for children, youth and families at University Lutheran Church in Seattle.
I served as national president of Physicians for Social Responsibility in 1997 and have served on the PSR national board of directors since 1991.
Enjoy the web site, enjoy the book, and enjoy the healing of your family.
Dr. Dave Hall
drdave@familyhealing.com