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MFT 642: Couple & Family Therapy with LGBTQ Relationships offered January 11-15, 2016

Dr. Deb Coolhart will teach MFT 642 January 11-15, 2016, providing an overview of the specific issues LGBTQ couples and families face and ways in which these issues impact relationships and other social systems. This graduate-level course is ideal for graduate students in MFT, Social Work, Child and Family Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Counseling and related programs.

In This Together: Working Towards a Trauma-Informed Community

On Friday, November 20th, 2015 the Marriage and Family Therapy department hosted an introductory workshop for social service practitioners, teachers, nurses, physicians, police, juvenile justice workers, marriage and family therapists, social workers, mental health counselors, and child specialists who work in high-violence, traumatized neighborhoods in the Syracuse area. This workshop served as the introductory module of a multiple-phase training program in trauma-informed practice. Speakers included: Linda Stone Fish, M.S.W., Ph.D., Falk Family Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Syracuse University, and co-author with Mary Jo Barrett, of the book Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration and…

Syracuse University’s Falk College Highlights Graduate Studies at November 6 Information Session

Faculty, staff, students available to talk about programs, coursework, student life Syracuse University faculty, staff and current students will welcome potential graduate students interested in the Falk College’s graduate programs in child and family studies, public health, marriage and family therapy, nutrition science, social work and sport management during a special Fall Information Session for graduate studies on Friday, November 6. The presentation begins at 4:00 p.m. at Falk College, Room 200. Detailed information will be provided on graduate programs in addiction studies, child and family studies (M.A., M.S., Ph.D.), food studies (M.S.), global health (M.S.), marriage and family therapy (M.A.),…

Falk College receives grants to assist trauma victims of neighborhood violence

Grant awards from the Community Foundation of Central New York and the John Ben Snow Foundation will support a new collaborative project, led by principal investigator, Linda Stone Fish, Falk Family Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy. The project, entitled, “In This Together,” will provide workshops to help social service professionals, educators, health care practitioners, juvenile justice workers, clergy, and mental health counselors learn how to identify and address signs of trauma. The program will also provide grief counseling, healing circles, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and therapy to community members impacted by violence. Most of the people on the front…

Advocating for the needs of transgender families

MFT assistant professor, Deborah Coolhart, Ph.D., LMFT, was one of the first mental health professionals to work with transgender clients in Central New York. She was recently interviewed for the article, “Teens in Transition,” that appeared in The Syracuse New Times in June. Under her leadership, a Transgender Treatment Team was created and continues to provide services in the Central New York community. Her areas of expertise include exploring the relationship between gender transition and life satisfaction, family relationships, social support, and mental health, homeless LGBTQ youth and the emotional processes of family members of transgender people. The article highlights…

Falk College offers discussion series during National PTSD Awareness Month in June

To educate the local community about issues related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Falk College will offer a discussion series during the month of June, which is designated as National PTSD Awareness Month to raise public awareness of PTSD and its effective treatments. PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life-threatening events such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood. These programs, which are free and open to the public, take place in conjunction with the Trauma Research Education for Undergraduates…

Congratulations Class of 2015!

Falk College will celebrate the Class of 2015 and its accomplishments on Saturday, May 9 at 4:00 p.m., Manley Field House. Falk College’s Class of 2015 includes 312 undergraduates, 142 master’s candidates and 27 students earning Certificates of Advanced Study. Four Ph.D. students will receive their hoods symbolizing the highest level of degree achievement. A baccalaureate degree in public health will be awarded posthumously to Sabrina Cammock. Falk College Marshals Sam Rodgers, Nutrition Aziza Mustefa, Public Health Undergraduate Department Marshals Francheska Bravo, Child & Family Studies Mary Briggman, Nutrition Will Fancher, Nutrition Science Lisa Cianciotta, Public Health Leah Elsbeck, Social…

Falk College Settles into New Home

Within hours of the opening of a student lounge—one of several community spaces—in the new Falk Complex earlier this semester, students were making it their own. “The students went in there and they started moving around the furniture, making areas for collaboration,” recalls Falk College Dean Diane Lyden Murphy. “Every time you go down there the furniture is placed in different ways as they need…

Aziza Mustefa College Marshal Reflection

Good afternoon and congratulations to the Falk College Class of 2015. I want you all to know how honored I am to be standing here. Thank you to my family, my classmates, my friends, and the esteemed faculty and administration for joining us on this joyous day. I can’t begin my speech without remembering our classmate Sabrina Cammock. Sabrina was one of my dearest friends, a stellar track runner, a brilliant student, and a woman who used her gifts for the greater good. Even though she is not with us today, she is in our hearts and I hope we…

Public meeting on housing experiences of LGBTQ youth in Central New York to be held May 4

Recent research conducted by two Syracuse University faculty members, working collaboratively with community agencies, indicates the most important issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified (LGBTQ) youth in the Central New York (CNY) community are bullying, family acceptance, self-acceptance, and having to leave home. Additionally, the two issues believed to most likely put LGBTQ youth at risk of homelessness are parental physical or emotional abuse and being forced to leave home because of LGBTQ identity. The study’s complete findings will be shared at a public meeting on the housing experiences of LGBTQ youth from the CNY community on Monday,…