Joyce Baptist

Associate Professor, Marriage and Family Therapy Program

Departments & Academic Units:

• Family Studies and Human Services

Contact Info:

114 Campus Creek Complex
(785) 532-6891

Courses I Teach:

• Practicum in MFT
• Systemic Treatment of Psychopathology
• MFT Supervision
• Family Systems in Cultural Context

Areas of Specialization:

• EMDR treatment
• Cross cultural research in Malaysia and Kenya
• Vulnerable and underserved groups: LGBTQI, ethnic minorities
• Couple and family resilience
• Deployment and military families

Education:

• Ph.D. in Human Development (MFT emphasis), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Chartered Management Accounting, London, U.K.
• M.A. in Community Counseling, Loyola University, Chicago

Short Biography

Dr. Joyce Baptist, Associate Professor in MFT, is a Licensed Clinical MFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and a certified practitioner in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.  A native of Malaysia, Dr. Baptist was faculty and department head in a business college in Malaysia prior to migrating to the U.S. She served as faculty and program director of Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at California State University Sacramento prior to joining K-State.

Dr. Baptist’s research interests include couple and family resilience,vulnerable groups including military families and minority groups, cross cultural research in Malaysia and Kenya.  Research topics have included deployment and reintegration stress on military couples and families, the vulnerability of AIDS orphans in Kenya, maintenance and conflict management in long-term committed relationships, influence of polygamy on relationship formation in Malaysia, and topics related to LGBTQI.

Dr. Baptist teaches and provides clinical supervision to graduate students and coordinates the doctoral internship. She provides MFT clinical and supervision training and consultation in Asia.  She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and is a special topics editor for Family Relations and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.  She is also the Advisor to the Malaysian Student Association at K-State.