Anthony P. Jurich
Title/Academic Rank:
Professor, School of Family Studies and Human Services
Departments & Academic Units:
Contact Info:
113 Campus Creek Complex
(785) 532-1488
Areas of Specialization:
- Clinical theory and practice
- Transitions to adulthood
- Sex therapy
- Advanced family theory
- Advanced clinical theory
- Adolescents and their families
- Dating relationships and premarital sex
- Sexual relationships
- Family crisis
- Suicide
- Delinquency
- Family therapy with adolescents and their families
- Adolescent substance abuse
Education:
- B.S. in Psychology, Fordham University (1969)
- M.S. in Child Development and Family Relationships, The Pennsylvania State University (1971)
- Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania University (1972)
Short Biography:
I was born and raised in the New York City area. I am the oldest of four siblings. After graduating from high school in Brooklyn, I attended Fordham University in the Bronx, where I played football as a wide receiver. I put myself through college with various jobs including being a bartender on the Long Island Railroad and singing in a rock and roll band. During my days at Fordham I worked with recovering addicts, domestic violence police teams, and newly arrested criminals in the South Manhattan holding facility. My mentors at Penn State pushed me to consider the treatment of families as opposed to individual therapy. That mentoring hit a resonant note with me, and I’ve been an advocate for marriage and family ever since. I’ve been at K-State since 1972, changing from a transplanted New Yorker to being a Kansan with New York roots. I love to go to a good restaurant and then see a good play with my wife Olivia. I still play softball and racquetball, and I bleed purple as I root for the Wildcats.