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HDFS Professor Invited to Speak on the Governor's Child Initiative
HDFS Professor JoAnn Robinson, Ph.D., was invited to appear on National Public Radio on February 27, 2007 to talk about the Governor’s Child Initiative, which places an emphasis on early childhood education. Robinson, the Director of Early Childhood Education Training within HDFS, was joined in the studio by George Coleman, Connecticut Interim Education Commissioner. The pair discussed how children learn, and what young students should know before they move into the public school system.
Emeritus Professor Funds Fellowship for Graduate Students in Family Studies
Frederick G. Humphrey, Ph.D., professor emeritus, was featured in the Winter 2007 edition of Momentum, which is published by the UConn Foundation. Humphrey has spent more than four decades studying the stresses of American families; stresses he says are rapidly changing. “I wouldn’t say there are more pressures on families today, but there are many different ones,” Humphrey said in the article. “Families don’t exist in isolation but are influenced by larger factors like the changing role of women, the growth of ‘trial marriages’ or living together, and the technologies of globalization such as cell phones and the internet.” To help students better understand these new stresses (as well as more traditional ones), he has funded the Dr. Frederick G. Humphrey Fellowship in Family Studies.The University already renamed the Family Studies Clinic as the Humphrey Center for Individual, Couple and Family Therapy in his honor. The fellowship provides research support for graduate students in marriage and family therapy, according to the article.
Matt Mutchler, Ph.D. Featured in the Hartford Courant
Matt Mutchler, Ph.D., associate clinical director of the Humphrey Center for Individual, Couple and Family Therapy and HDFS doctoral graduate, was featured in a February 19 article in the Hartford Courant regarding the way in which family therapy has changed over the years. Mutchler said that many men are reluctant to come to therapy for fear that the therapist will side with their wife, a misconception he deemed inaccurate. “A good therapist is someone who sides with both partners from time to time,” Mutchler said in the article. “Recognizing the validity of what each has to say and looking for ways to make them stronger.”
The Importance of a Father's Love
Nothing compares to a mother’s love – except maybe a father’s – a concept Ronald Rohner, Ph.D., emeritus professor and Director of the Ronald and Nancy Rohner Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection, discussed in a recent article in WETM 18 online. “What we find surprising and new is that a father’s love is turning out to be just as important as, and sometimes more important than, a mother’s love,” Rohner said in the article. The article discussed Rohner’s “The Importance of Father Love: History and Contemporary Evidence,” published in the December 2001 issue of Review of General Psychology and co-authored by his colleague Robert Veneziano. “Widespread recognition of fathers’ influence may help motivate many men to become more involved in nurturing child care,” Rohner and Veneziano wrote.
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