CEHD News

FSoS Juyoung Jang hired at Rice University's Chao Center for Asian Studies

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:19:04 -0600

Congratulations to recent graduate Juyoung Jang who was hired as a post doctoral fellow at the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University beginning in August.
Jang earned a Ph.D. in Family Social Science this spring after completing her dissertation titled Potential Social Capital and Psychological Distress for Intermarried Persons.

FSoS Juyoung Jang hired at Rice University's Chao Center for Asian Studies

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:19:04 -0600

FSoS Alumnus Allen elected 2013 NCFR Board President

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:24:00 -0600

Congratulations William D. Allen, Ph.D., for being elected to serve as Board President of the National Council on Family Relations beginning November 2013.
William earned his doctorate from the department of Family Social Science in 1997, and has taught at the University of Minnesota. He is the owner of Healing Bonds, a clinical and consulting service. Read more about William in this profile.

Doherty's tips for empowering fathers

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:53:16 -0600

Department of Family Social Science professor Bill Doherty was featured in a CEHD Vision 2020 post about empowering fathers.
The article focused on the Citizen Father Project, which is a partnership between Goodwill/Easter Seals Minnesota and their FATHER Project, and Doherty's Citizen Professional Center.
Visit the CEHD Vision 2020 page to read more about how the project works and Doherty's tips for men to become healthy and active fathers.

Former FSoS department head's wife, Miriam Hey passed away

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:42:23 -0600

Miriam Jennings Hey, age 95, the wife of former FSoS department head, Dick Hey, passed away on May 22, 2013. A memorial celebration was held June 8th at Luther Seminary.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to your favorite charity or cause.

Read her obituary here.

FSoS Kyle Zrenchik selected as candidate for Doctoral Fellowship

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:21:17 -0600

The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) selected Department of Family Social Science graduate student Kyle Zrenchik as a 2013-14 candidate for the Doctoral Fellowship of the MFP.

The program's objective is to expand the delivery of culturally competent mental health and substance abuse services to minority and underserved populations by increasing both the number of culturally competent and minority Marriage and Family Therapists.

Congratulations Kyle!

Video: A conversation about ambiguous loss research

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:53:42 -0600

On May 22, 2013 Department of Family Social Science emeritus faculty Dr. Pauline Boss and Ambiguous Loss Visiting Scholar Dr. Jay Mancini conducted a conversation about ambiguous loss research. Video of the talk is available at the National Council on Family Relations' website. Click here to watch.

Bill Doherty, Discernment Counseling featured in SELF magazine story

Wed, 29 May 2013 13:23:28 -0600

Department of Family Social Science professor and Minnesota Couples on the Brink project director Bill Doherty was featured in a SELF Magazine article on Discernment Counseling.

Discernment Counseling helps individuals and couples decide whether to try to restore their marriage to health or move towards divorce.

Doherty's MN Couples on the Brink project received an overwhelming amount of requests for this specialized counseling and created online training for licensed therapists to complete in order to offer discernment counseling nationally.

Doherty and his colleagues are currently conducting an evaluation of their first 100 cases.

Former FSoS Professor Gerry Neubeck featured in NCFR Report

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:59:02 -0600

Gerhard (Gerry) Neubeck was a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota, and became NCFR's 35th president in 1977.

Until 1940, Nuebeck lived in Germany, where he was a German-Jewish athlete. In the run-up to the 1936 Olympics, the Nazis put on a charade, allowing Jewish athletes to train in a segregated Olympic facility, then telling them days before the Games that they weren't good enough to compete.

After being beaten by Nazis, Neubeck and his parents fled to the Netherlands and then to the United States, where he eventually earned a master's in psychology and doctorate in education. In the 1960s, he taught of the nation's first courses on human sexuality. He retired from the University of Minnesota in the 1980's and passed away in 2008.

FSoS Juyoung Jang and Sharon Danes publish in ERJ

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:52:24 -0600

Department of Family Social Science doctoral candidate Juyoung Jang and professor Sharon Danes have a paper accepted by the Entrepreneurship Research Journal: "Are we on the same page?: Copreneurial Couple goal congruence and business viability."

FSoS Abi Gewirtz and Yaliu He present a workshop in Beijing

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:44:04 -0600

Department of Family Social Science professor Abi Gewirtz and graduate student Yaliu He are conducting a workshop at the Beijing Tsinghua University's Department of Psychology June 5-11. Professor Gewirtz will present her expertise in trauma and prevention science.

FSoS Charles Sim and Yunxi Yang to present in China

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:14:18 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate students Charles Sim and Yunxi Yang will present at the Intensive Summer Clinical Workshop in Couple and Family Therapy at China's Xiamen University, June 28-30, 2013.

FSoS Jennifer Sampson and Janet Yeats present posters and workshops at ICHC

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:43:02 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate students and founders of The Hoarding Project Jennifer Sampson and Janet Yeats presented at the 15th Annual International Conference on Hoarding and Cluttering in San Francisco May 2.
They presented two posters, "Firearms and Hoarding: A Case Study: Public Safety, Ethics and Legalities" and "Development of a Facilitator's Support Group Manual for Family Members of People Who Hoard" as well as the following workshops: "Safety Day: A New Approach to Hoarding Clean-Outs," "The Application of Psychological First Aid to Hoarding - Safety Day," and "The Impact of Trauma on Hoarding Behaviors" (with Dr. Suzanne Chabaud).

FSoS Kyle Zrenchik presents a poster and two presentations at two conferences with Ruth Hall Funding Award

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:28:59 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate student Kyle Zrenchik has received Ruth E. Hall Funds for Graduate Student Professional Development.
Kyle used part of the funds to present "The State of LGBT Family Research: An Opportunity to Critically Reflect" at the LGBT Research Symposium in Champaign, IL on May 2nd.
In June he'll use the remainder of funding to travel to Chicago to present at the American Family Therapy Academy Annual Conference. He will present twice, a presentation titled "Why is Monogamy the Gold Standard?: Polyamory, Open Relationships, and a History of Successful Coupling" and a poster titled "Class and Classism in Family Therapy Praxis: A Feminist, Neo-Marxist Approach."

FSoS's Diego Garcia-Huidobro to present in San Francisco and Prague, Czech Republic

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:55:00 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate student Diego Garcia-Huidobro will present two posters at the Society for Prevention Research 21st Annual Conference in San Francisco, May 28-31. The posters are titled "Participants' Satisfaction with an Immigrant Family-Skills Building Program to Prevent Tobacco and Substance Use in Latino Youth" and "Family Health Behaviors Model: A Conceptual Framework for Prevention Research and Interventions."

Diego will also travel to Prague, Czech Republic to present at the 20th World Conference of Family Medicine, June 25-29. The titles of his presentations are the "ABCs of practicing family centered research I: Grounding research into theory" and "ABCs of practicing family centered research II: Conducting the research."

FSoS Charles Sim to present at symposium in Myanmar

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:08:27 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate student Charles Sim will present at the Family Life Symposium for Bishops and Laity Collaborators of Southeast Asia 2013 in Yangon, Myanmar, May 23-26. His topic is "Spirituality and Psychology of Growing Old."

FSoS Kari Smalkoski awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:42:23 -0600

Kari Smalkoski, Ph.D. candidate in Family Science, has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2013-2014. The prestigious fellowship is intended to enable Ph.D. candidates of particular promise to devote full-time effort to the research and writing of the dissertation during 2013-14 academic year.
Congratulations Kari!

FSoS Cigdem Yumbul presented in Spain

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:26:03 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate student Cigdem Yumbul presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013 in Madrid, Spain, April 26-28. The title of her presentation was "An integrative Conceptual Framework for Understanding Child Abuse within the Family."

FSoS Holli Trombley receives Ruth Hall Funds for India trip

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:45:51 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate student Holli Trombley has received Ruth E. Hall Funding for Graduate Student Professional Development to participate in the Tibetan Medicine, Ayurveda, and Mindfulness workshop in Dharamsala, India, May-June 2013.
During the workshop she will travel to Dharamsala, India in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. She will be studying at the Men-Tsee-Khang, the Tibetan Medical Institute of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The University of Minnesota is the only university in the world for which the Men-Tsee-Khang teaches a yearly course on Tibetan Medicine.
She will be giving a presentation, "Mindfulness and Yoga with Combat Veterans who have experienced Trauma" to the doctors and medical students.

FSoS Kyle Zrenchik awarded Hauge Fellowship

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:23:46 -0600

Department of Family Social Science graduate student Kyle Zrenchik has been selected as a Hauge Graduate Fellowship recipient in the amount of $11,500 for the 2013-13 academic year. Congratulations Kyle!