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MFT Admissions Interviews will be held on Friday, February 22, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. ~ 5:00 p.m. If you are selected as a finalist for admission, you will be asked to attend this all day event. If chosen you will receive additional information. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Doug Sprenkle at sprenkled@aol.com.

 

We are pleased to welcome four new students for our Class of 2007, all of whom have master’s degrees in MFT:
• Jacob Nashida graduated from Auburn University.
• Neelu Chawla joins us from the University of Rochester Medical School.
• Casey Coker is from Western Michigan University.
• Jennifer Doyle graduated from Northwestern.

Cleve Shields, Ph.D. has received a major grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the physician patient relationship. He also has grants from the Purdue Regenstrief center for healthcare Engineering and the Oncological Sciences Center for a randomized trial of a patient activation study with breast Cancer patients, and a Kinley Trust award from Purdue Research foundation with colleagues in nursing to examine the effect of guide imagery in managing bone cancer pain.
Volker Thomas, Ph.D. recently returned from leading a study abroad trip to India. He has a grant from the Kinley Trust to study the effectiveness of Filial Therapy with families of pre-school children and has applied for a grant from the Pulliam Charitable Trust to study Filial Therapy with African American grandparents caring for their grandchildren. He is also co-editing (with Mudita Rastogi) a book on therapy with minority couples for Sage.
Doug Sprenkle, Ph.D., MFT Program Director was recently elected to the national offices of Treasurer and Board Member of AAMFT. He is writing (with Sean Davis and Jay Lebow) a book on Common Factors in Relational Therapy for Guilford Press. He also has been selected to edit the next special issue of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (with Ron Chenail) on Effectiveness Research in MFT (scheduled for 2010).
Shruti Poulsen, Ph.D. has been appointed as a Continuing Lecturer and is also the project manager for Dr. Shields cancer grant. She also taught our practicum last summer.
 
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