Intervention Research in Systemic Family Therapy Kickoff Meeting

When:  Apr 23, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (ET)

Introducing the Intervention Research in Systemic Family Therapy Topical Interest Network

C/MFT researchers have long desired and needed a formal community that they can call home.  This network seeks to provide a place for researchers, post-docs, and graduate students to present their empirical work, network, enhance their research skills, and develop collaborative research projects. 

Online Kickoff Event: Friday April 23, 2021; 12:00 – 1:00pm (EST)/ 11:00am - 12:00pm (CST)

Cost: FREE!

Link: https://aamft.zoom.us/j/92243861924?pwd=WXlNSUljbjFPQjdYREF4TUNiOFdvdz09

Password: Research

The kickoff event will feature the leaders of the TIN Drs. Adrian Blow (Chair), Rick Miller (Chair-elect), Lenore McWey (Treasurer), and Keeley Pratt (Secretary) who will provide an overview of events for the calendar year, upcoming networking and presentation opportunities, and briefly discuss their own interests and experiences with intervention research. We hope you can make it for this kickoff, and hope to see you at future events!

Please be sure to RSVP and add this event to your calendar!

Event Presenters

Adrian Blow

Title & Company: Michigan State University
Bio: Adrian Blow is Professor and Chair of the Human Development and Family Studies Department. He is the former Director of the MSU Couple and Family Therapy program. He obtained his PhD from Purdue University in 1999, served on the faculty at Saint Louis University for six years, and subsequently joined Michigan State in 2005. His research focuses ...

Lenore McWey

Title & Company:
Bio: Lenore M. McWey is a systemic family therapy (SFT) intervention researcher, professor, and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy doctoral program at Florida State University. She has received National Institutes of Health (NIH) research support for her work with children and families involved with the child welfare system. Results of her research ...

Richard Miller

Title & Company:
Bio: Rick Miller is a professor in the MFT Program at Brigham Young University.  Prior to teaching at BYU, he taught in the MFT Program at Kansas State University for 11 years, where he served as Program Director for a period of time.  His research interests focus on process research in couple therapy, particularly studying therapist effects and ...

Keeley Pratt

Title & Company:
Bio: Keeley J. Pratt is a medical family therapy and systemic family therapy (SFT) intervention scholar and Associate Professor in Couple and Family Therapy and Human Development and Family Science at The Ohio State University (OSU). She also has appointments at OSU in Surgery and Pediatrics, and is a Faculty in Residence with the Office of Equity, ...