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February 29, 2008

网曝门 Marriage and Family Therapy students, faculty present at state conference; one named 鈥淪tudent of the Year鈥�

University of Louisiana at Monroe鈥檚 Bethany Snavely Simmons, a second-year Ph.D. Student (and a Penn State undergrad), was named 鈥淪tudent of the Year鈥� at the annual Louisiana Association of Marriage and Family Therapists Conference in Baton Rouge Feb. 7 鈥� 9.

Simmons has served as the state鈥檚 student representative for LAMFT for two years, where she assisted in conference planning and leadership training. She has also actively worked to establish the newly-minted 网曝门 student chapter of Marriage and Family Therapists and a subsequent mentoring program.

Dr. Jana Sutton, a 网曝门 MFT professor and new president of the state MFT organization, praised the student鈥檚 work. 鈥淪immons is a very competent systemic thinker, clinician, teaching assistant and researcher.鈥�

Twelve current 网曝门 MFT students gave presentations of research at the conference, which drew nearly 300 attendees. Four 网曝门 MFT professors and three program candidates were also involved in addressing the conference.

Topics included:

• 鈥淏urnout and/or Freezout? Sustaining Yourself in a Helping Profession鈥� by Dr. Harper Gaushell
  
  
• 鈥淪ystemic Diagnosis for Couples and Marital Relationships鈥� by Dr. Charles Cole, Allison Lux, and Dr. Katherine Wilson
  
  
• 鈥淲hat Would the World Look Like Today if Gregory Bateson Had Been President on 9/11鈥� by Matt Borer and Scott Shelby
  
  
• 鈥淕ay and Lesbian Issues: A Study of the Perceptions Between Male and Female College Students鈥� by C.J. Aducci and Christina Speyrer
  
  
• 鈥淏eing Solution Focused in a Sexual Abuse Survivors鈥� World鈥� by Dr. Jana Sutton and Bethany Snavely Simmons
  
  
• 鈥淪ystemic Therapy: Youth in the Legal System鈥� by Dr. Si-Pui Pearl Wong and Adam Mathews
  
  
• 鈥淢FT Educators Roundtable鈥� by Dr. Lamar Woodham and Dr. Jana Sutton
  
  
• 鈥淯tilizing Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy for Treatment with Ambivalent and Indifferent Couples鈥� by Tanya Simons, Nichelle Mason and Bethany Snavely Simmons.

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