The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) recognized recent Virginia Tech MFT area graduate, Dr. Lauren Smithee, as the 2020 recipient of the Jessie Bernard Outstanding Research Proposal from
Graduate Emily Wacker on ED Matters Podcast
Virginia Tech MFT program area graduate, Dr. Emily Wacker, was recently featured on the podcast, ED Matters. The episode features Dr. Wacker discussing feminist-informed protective factors for subclinical eating
Recent Project Funding for ABFT Research
Dr. Russon (co-investigator), Allie King, current doctoral candidate, along with the Principal Investigator, Dr. Stephanie Manasse, recently received funding from The Drexel University Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle
Doctoral Student Publishes Paper on Family Therapy for Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth
Sami Simpson, student in the MFT program area, recently published a clinical paper in The American Journal of Family Therapy. The paper focuses on substance use disorders among sexual
MFT Students Represent the FTC at Juneteenth 2020 Celebration
In July, two students in the MFT program area, Stephanie Cooke and Deneisha Scott-Poe, represented the Family Therapy Center at a Juneteenth event hosted by the Christiansburg Institute, titled