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"The March 2011 issue of the American Journal of Family Therapy reports the results of a 3-year study showing Marriage and Family Therapists had the lowest dropout and recidivism rates of all mental health professionals. The study says MFTs are more cost effective than psychologists, physicians or nurses." (The American Journal of Family Therapy, March 2011)
K-State University Professor of MFT, Dr. Tony Jurich, died in an accident while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
"On September 9, Anthony P. Jurich, a professor of marriage and family therapy at Kansas State University, gave his last speech at the Army post where he had volunteered for nearly four decades." (Chronicle of High Education, November 21, 2010)
Tony Jurich, PhD was a Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Kansas State University and a Co-Founder of KAMFT.
Daniel Avenaim leads a local depression support group in Paola, Kansas.
"With her head in her hands, a lonely woman reaches for it. Anything that will help her cope with the pain and the dark corner of the world she has suddenly found herself in and a hole in which she believes she cannot escape." (Miami County News, September 2010)
Mr. Avenaim has a private practice at Avenaim & Associates LLC in Paola, Kansas.
Men's Health Online Magazine poses the question: "Could you ever behave like Mel Gibson?"
"You’ve probably heard the chilling, racist, profanity-laced threats attributed to Mel Gibson, tooling on his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. Two questions: How does stuff like that get recorded, anyway? And more importantly, could any of us develop into a monster like that?" (Carolyn Kylstra of Men's Health Online, July 2010)
Dr. Macchi is on faculty at Kansas State University and has a private practice with Stonestreet & Associates in Topeka, Kansas.
MFT Professor and Co-Founder of KAMFT, Dr. Candyce Russell, retired at the end of the 2011 academic year after 36 years at Kansas State University.
Dr. Archuleta presents a new kind of marriage counseling.
"There's new hope for couples with marriage problems that stem from financial hardship -- a therapy that melds traditional marriage counseling with financial planning." (Sylvia Maria Gross of station KCUR, November 2009)
Dr. Archuleta is an Assistant Professor at the Kansas State University Institute of Personal Financial Planning.
