Joyce Baptist
Title/Academic Rank:
Assistant Professor, Marriage and Family Therapy Program
Departments & Academic Units:
Contact Info:
212 Campus Creek Complex
(785) 532-6891
Courses I Teach:
- FSHS 885 - Practicum in MFT
- FSHS 985 - Practicum in MFT
- FSHS 879 - Systemic Treatment of Psychopathology
- FSHS 983 - MFT Process and Outcome Research
- FSHS 853 - Family Systems in Cultural Context
Areas of Specialization:
- Effects of trauma and treatment effectiveness
- HIV/AIDS and families in Kenya
- Deployment and military couples
- Cross-cultural and immigrant families
Education:
- Ph.D. in Human Development (MFT emphasis), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- M.A. in Community Counseling, Loyola University, Chicago
- Chartered Management Accounting, London, U.K.
Short Biography:
Dr. Joyce Baptist, Assistant Professor in MFT, is a Licensed Clinical MFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, a certified practitioner in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and an adjunct faculty of The Asia Institute of Professional Psychology, Singapore. A native of Malaysia, Dr. Baptist was faculty and department head in a business college in Malaysia prior to migrating to the U.S. She served as faculty and program director of Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at California State University Sacramento prior to joining K-State.
Dr. Baptist’s research interests revolve around vulnerable groups. This include the effects of stress from deployment and trauma on military couples, the clinical effectiveness of trauma treatment, the effects of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable children and immigrant families in Kenya and challenges of cross-cultural and immigrant families. She received a grant from the African Studies Center, K-State for her research on HIV/AIDS prevention among orphans and caregivers in Kenya. She is currently working on two research projects: an interdisciplinary study on HIV/AIDS prevention in Kenya and a study on the effects of deployment on military couples.
Dr. Baptist teaches and provides clinical supervision to graduate students and coordinates the doctoral internship. She provides clinical practice and supervision training and consultation in Asia and cross-cultural training in the U.S. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and is a special topics editor for Family Relations and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. She is also the Advisor to the Malaysian Student Association at K-State.