Currently: 

Editor: Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal
Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy 
School of Family Life
Brigham Young University

Previously:

Director of the Comprehensive Clinic-2008-2011

Director of the Family Studies Center and Associate Director for Research, School of Family Life 2000-2006

Program Director for Marriage and Family Therapy Programs, 1985-1995
 
Professional Organization Service:

  American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy:
  • Cumulative Contribution to Marriage and Family Therapy Research Award (2007)
  • Fellow (1987), Approved Supervisor and Clinical Member
  • Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) 2000-2006, Chair, 2006
  • Former Member of the Steering Committee, Clinical Competencies Task Force
  National Council on Family Relations:
  • Former Chair, Family Therapy Section
Of Interest:
  • Specializes in training doctoral students who wish to become academics
  • Eleven of his former doctoral students are in academic positions in the United States
  • Three doctoral graduate students have earned AAMFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation annual awards
  • Current research focus: Families, health, and the influence of marital and family therapy on health care costs
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