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Biography
Dennis Elton Broadbent, Ph.D., (born 1945) is a full-time practicing psychologist, director, consultant, researcher and lecturer with 40-years experience with involvement in academic, clinical and therapeutic eclecticism among interrelated disciplines. Dr. Broadbent has engaged in a variety of local, national, and international endeavors. In 1974, he married Helen McRae and they have five children. As an active voice for the family, he specializes in a comprehensive family and systems approach to counseling and the treatment of developmental childhood trauma in adult psychopathology.
Professional training
Dr. Broadbent graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in psychology, earned his masters as a University Fellow at Florida State University in Developmental and Educational Psychology in 1973, and his doctorate summa cum laude in 1979 with a triple major in clinical diagnosis and treatment, behavior analysis and therapy with a child/family emphasis, and developmental and educational psychology, with an extended minor in marriage and family counseling, and specializing in the treatment of complex, multiple, and severe emotional problems.
Dr. Broadbent also received medical training in the United States Army from 1967–1971, with extensive emergency room and preventive medicine experience, and served as a medical instructor at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Denver, Colorado.
Major post-doctoral specialization includes training in affective disorders and cognitive and rational-emotive methodologies; substance abuse, and endogenous and exogenous forms of addictions; sex-abuse, and aberrant sexual problems; forensics and clinical psychopathology and epidemiology; comprehensive family and systems dynamics in clinical treatment methods; values education; psychobiology and psychoneuroimmunologyof psychosomatic, emotional, and addictive disorders; and the convergence of epigenetic and childhood traumagenic environments, experiences, and learning processes involved in individual and family psychopathology.
Credentials
As a licensed psychologist, Dr. Broadbent is board certified in Integrative Medicine, has a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABPS)[1], a Diplomate in Mental Health (AAIM), is a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners International, and a Life Fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine. He is also a member of The National Council on Family Relations and a life member of the American Psychological Association.
Professional experience
The Family Resource Center
President of the organization designed for the development of comprehensive counseling, research, and charitable programs and facilities -- providing direction, supervision, consultation, and community services. The organizations associated with The Family Resource Center include:
Psychological and Family Health Associates
Private, comprehensive treatment centers for individual, family, and marriage disorders, with locations throughout the Phoenix, AZ metro area. Dr. Broadbent has served as Executive Director for 34 of his 44 years of professional experience.
Southwest Institute for Behavioral Studies
Private research foundation providing contemporary research information, public service resources, materials and information on topics of current public interest. Serving as Director and Senior Consultant, Dr. Broadbent has engaged in major efforts with the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality[6]; the Arizona Conference on Pornography[7]; the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, Organized Crime Division[8]; the Arizona Department of Education Values Education Task Force[9]; the Arizona State Legislature[10]; the national organization, Citizens for Decency Through Law[11]; and the Federal Communications Commission hearings on Dial-a-Porn[12]. This organization also publishes the periodic newsletterPsychological and Family Health Notes.
Family Resource Center Charities (FRCC)
A private, not-for-profit, clinic-based center for charitable community and government-based activities, providing assistance and programs on a local, national, and international level, to include the production of the nationally syndicated public affairs weekly radio program Today's Family and Society[13]; and involving the World Congress of Families and the World Family Policy Center[14]. He has also worked with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, and the National Citizens For Decency Through Law Foundation.
Academic endeavors
Dr. Broadbent has provided academic instruction at Florida State University, Valdosta State University[15] and Glendale(AZ)Community College[16] on undergraduate and graduate levels[17].
Other experience
In addition, Dr. Broadbent served on the Florida State Committee for the establishment of sexual guidelines for young sex offenders[18] as a clinical therapist and consultant with Psycho-Educational Consultants from 1972-1976 (Tallahassee, Florida); filled the position as the program and training psychologist for the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida[19]; was a director of medical treatment Vungtau, Vietnam and the NCOIC of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center while in the U.S. Army; and was President and Executive Director of the multi-treatment facility, Family Development Resources, from 1980–1983[20].
Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church)
Dr. Broadbent was a principal developer and chairman of the original Young Single Adult Program for the LDS Church, and he served as a primary consultant in the development of a new Addiction Recovery 12-step Family Support Guide. Focusing on the reconciliation of clinical theory, research, and counseling with Church orthodoxy and principles, he has served as an ongoing resource concerning pivotal emotional, psychological, and family topics for use by academic, clinical and Church leaders and other interested parties. Dr. Broadbent was an LDS missionary from 1964-1967 in Zurich, Switzerland and Florence, Italy.