Background
Lankton, Stephen Ryan was born on May 29, 1947 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Son of Stanley R. and Mary Lou (Cook) Lankton.
family therapist management consultant
Lankton, Stephen Ryan was born on May 29, 1947 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Son of Stanley R. and Mary Lou (Cook) Lankton.
Student, Lansing Community College, 1966-1968; Bachelor, Michigan State University, 1972; Master of Social Work (scholar), University of Michigan, 1974.
Lankton served as a Fellow and Approved Consultant of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. A Fellow and Approved Supervision of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He is a Diplomate and Past-President of the American Hypnosis Board for Clinical Social Work and a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association.
An Licensed Clinical Social Worker psychotherapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, Lankton conducts workshops internationally (24 countries).
Lankton speaks at major universities, national therapy organizations including the AAMFT, APA, ITAA, Erickson Foundation, Networker, AGPA, et cetera, and state professional organizations for social worker, psychologists, hypnosis, and psychiatry. He is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University.
He was the Editor of the Ericksonian Monographs series of books from 1985-1995. His major publications include Practical Magic.
The Answer Within; Enchantment and Intervention In Family Therapy.
And Assembling Ericksonian Therapy. And others translated into 7 languages. Lankton trained under Milton H. Erickson, Doctor of Medicine from 1975 to 1979, and his efforts at promoting and interpreting Erickson’s approach to hypnosis and therapy at the highest academic levels resulted in the inclusion of chapters in several scholarly publications edited by other luminaries in the field
These include his chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis.
The Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis. And Handbook of Family Therapy Volume World War II
Social Workers’ Desk Reference. And The Handbook of Innovative Therapy.
And several others He served as a behavior science expert in corporate consulting projects that have included the Internal Revenue Service, Xerox, American Express, New York State Tax and Finance, New York Welfare Department, Nortel, and other fortune 500 companies.
He co-authored the Xerox 1990"s Document Engineering Methodology that promoted behaviorally-driven document-centered information engineering.
(First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
(First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
(First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
Fellow American Academy Pain Management, American Association Marriage and Family Therapy (approved supervisor, clinical member). Member International Transactional Analysis Association, Academy Certified Social Workers, Society Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, American Academy Phychotherapists, International Society Hypnosis, Florida Society Clinical Hypnosis, American Society Clinical Hypnosis (approved consultant), American Family Therapy Association (clinical teaching member).
Children: Stephen, Shawn Michael, Alicia Michelle.