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Student Research Kristina Brown, Ph.D. student is studying the impact that dyspareunia( painful intercourse) due to endrometriosis ( a chronic gynecological disease that affects millions of women) has on a couple's relationship for her dissertation.

Diabetes Support Project MFT Professor Jonathan Sandberg and doctoral student Elizabeth B. Feldhousen are participating in the Diabetes Support Project, a grant funded iniative to help couples who are struggling with diabetes.  This collaboration of diabetes educators, nurses, dieticians, and family therapists aims to treat the biological, social, and psychological aspects of diabetes through telephone interventions to couples in which one partner has type 2 diabetes.

Nurturing Queer Youth Marriage and family therapy professor Linda Stone Fish and doctoral student Rebecca Harvey are co-authors of Nurturing Queer Youth: Family Therapy Transformed, published in 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company.  More

Promoting Child Welfare: Training Professionals to Support Healthy Marriages, Relationships, and Families An interdisciplinary group of college faculty has received a five-year, $852,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration of Children and Families for “Promoting Child Welfare: Training Professionals to Support Healthy Marriages, Relationships, and Families.” More

A group of faculty and students is examining the gap between the number of individuals who call the Goldberg Center inquiring about services and the number of people who come to the center for the first visit. The team identified 400 clients over the last 7 years who had called for but never received services. Questionnaires were developed and sent; results are pending. The project was presented as a poster at the 61st annual conference of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.