Reflections - Summer 2010

              Table of Contents
Family Counseling Center.........................1
Women in Education.................................2
Name change in Counselor Ed..................2
Advisory Board..........................................3
Speakers on campus.................................4
New certificates........................................4
Partnerships abound.................................5
Summer schedule online..........................5
Faculty news.............................................6
Trips to Nicaragua, Korea..........................7
Message from the Dean............................8
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Summer 2010
New counseling center planned
The Marriage and Family Therapy
(MFT) Department is on the
move: This fall, its clinical facil-ity
will relocate to the new Kathryn P.
Koslow Family Counseling Center in
Southwell Hall right next to the Early
Learning Center.
Koslow ’05,
a current MFT
student and
member of the
new GSEAP
Advisory
Board, gener-ously
supported
the renova-tion
of the
building with
a $500,000
pledge and
has launched a
$125,000, five-year
challenge
grant in support of the program’s work.
She will match up to $25,000 in dona-tions
each year for the next five years to
support students, enhance the curriculum,
and expand programming.
“Our faculty and students are so grate-ful
to Kathy Koslow,” said Dean Susan
Franzosa. “GSEAP’s Marriage and Family
Therapy Program has grown in stature
since its founding in 1985 and is regarded
as one of the finest in Connecticut. With
Kathy’s generous support, it will reach
more students, help us expand our collab-orative
research efforts, and serve a greater
number of families in need.”
The new Center will be a state-of-the-art
facility that augments the program’s
strong clinical training component by
providing a professional space for students
to gain clinical experience. Construction
is scheduled to run through the summer
for a Sept. 1 opening.
Clinical training
is a major part of
the MFT program,
which prepares
graduate students
to be eligible for
licensure. Prior to
graduation students
must complete 500
hours of direct clini-cal
services to clients,
250 of which must
be with couples and
families. They must
also receive 100
hours of supervision
by licensed marriage and family therapists.
“Currently, students do the bulk
of their clinical training at off-campus
sites,” said Dr. Rona Preli, chair of the
MFT Department. “The new Family
Counseling Center at Southwell Hall will
be a tremendous improvement over the
current on-campus clinical training facil-ity,
located in the lower level of Canisius
and only open two nights a week. It will
enable us to expand our hours of service
and offer more on-campus clinical experi-ences
to our students – all within a center
with state-of-the-art technology.”
Reflections
Fairfield University
a publication of the graduate school of education and allied professions
Kathy Koslow chats with Dean Franzosa
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