2007 Alumni Fellow to give All College General Presentation
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Manhattan, KS — 2007 Alumni Fellow for the College of Human Ecology, Sandra M. Stith, Ph.D., will give an All College General Presentation at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 21, in Justin Hall’s Hoffman Lounge.
Dr. Stith, a Professor in and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Virginia Tech, received her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University, and her master’s in Life Span Human Development and Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Kansas State University. She has been a member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1986. She has been Director of the Human Development Department in Northern Virginia since 1991.
Before Virginia Tech, Dr. Stith taught at Kansas State University and Emporia State University. In addition to directing the program, Dr. Stith teaches many of the core courses in the program, supervises students in our on-site clinic, chairs thesis committees, and is involved in several research projects. She teaches Systems Theory and Family Therapy and Structural Strategic Family Therapy for the MFT program. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Virginia and an Approved Supervisor and Clinical Member of AAMFT. She serves on the Board of Professional Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists for Virginia.
Dr. Stith’s primary research interest is partner violence. Her domestic violence research has focused on several aspects of partner violence including police officer response to victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, factors predictive of male perpetrators’ use of violence in intimate relationships, the role of differentiation of self as a predictor of domestic violence, and the relationship of family of origin violence to experiencing domestic violence as an adult. Dr. Stith is currently involved in a project to develop and test a couples treatment program for domestic violence. In addition, Dr. Stith has studied various aspects of violence in non-marital relationships, including reciprocal violence, female perpetrated violence, and the impact of violence on the continuation of relationships. She has used both qualitative and quantitative methodology in these studies.
The College of Human Ecology welcomes Dr. Stith as she presents “Couples’ Treatment to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence.”
Biographical information provided by:
http://www.nvc.vt.edu/mft/aop_fac_staff_stith.html
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