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Piercy, Cole, Win AAMFT Awards |
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Johnson Speaks to Historically Black Colleges Mental Health Group |
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Kimberly Flemke, PhD, '03, on "Today," CBS News |
Human Development Department Head Fred Piercy, and 3rd year student Elise Cole have won the 2007 American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy Outstanding Contribution to Marriage and Family Therapy and the Graduate Student Research Awards. Piercy's honor is the highest honor the Association gives, recognizing a lifetime's dedication to and unique achievement in our field. Author or coauthor of dozens and dozens of publications and several seminal books, former chair of the AAMFT Commission on Accreditation, member of the AAMFT Board of Directors, Associate Editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, former head of the Purdue MFT doctoral program, and mentor to hundreds of MFT students over the years, it's obvious why Fred was chosen. Cole, who was raised in rural Kenya, won for her dissertation proposal to develop a Multicultural Therapy Competency Inventory. |
Program Director Scott Johnson ('91) has been a featured speaker for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Resource Center for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment. The National Resource Center holds regular programs for the one hundred and four historically black institutions that make up the HBCU group. Johnson has been a member of regional panels discussing the various mental health disciplines and their roles in substance abuse and mental health treatment. In April, he spoke at the annual National Resource Center Conference in Washington, D.C. The Historically Black institutions are composed of southern state schools created during the segregationist period that were restricted to blacks, such as the former Virginia State College for Negroes, now Virginia State University, and private institutions such as Tuskegee University in Alabama, or Wilberforce University in Ohio, which, though not restricted to African Americans, were created to address the lack of higher educational opportunities in white colleges from the post Civil War era to the 1960s. Johnson himself is a graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, a historically black school famous for graduating many national and international leaders. |
Kimberly Flemke, 2003 graduate, has recently appeared twice on NBC's "Today" show discussing motherhood, as well as being featured as an expert on The Learning Channel and other television outlets. She also recently appeared on CBS discussing celebrities who have publicly embarrassed themselves and then sought some form of treatment. Kimberly is an assistant professor in the Couples and Family Therapy program at Drexel University and a therapist at the Relationship Council of Philadelphia. See her "Today" appearance here. (Requires Internet Explorer 6.)
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Radio: Megan Dolbin-MacNab, Internship Coordinator and Assistant Professor, was featured on the NPR Call-in show "Hearsay, with Cathy Lewis," 20th February, 12:30-1:00pm. Find out more here. | |||||
American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy Annual Conference, October 11-14th, 2007, Long Beach |
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