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student in the Marriage and Family Therapy doctoral program. Further, she aims to contribute to the training of future MFTs and the enhancement of the field. She plans to conduct research that enhances the knowledge of clinicians working with families and couples and improves awareness of the daily interactions that contribute to relationship well-being. Ashley is pursuing a career as a faculty member at a research university in a Marriage and Family Therapy program. Through such research, she aims to improve couple and clinician awareness of the daily experiences that chip away at long-term physical and mental health, offering points of intervention to buffer the negative effects of daily stress, including stress from chronic illness. She also aims to study the daily spillover of stress from the couple relationship to the parent-child relationship. Some mechanisms in coping with daily stress that Ashley has begun to examine include dyadic coping between partners, religious coping, and self-regulation. She is interested in examining daily interactions and mechanisms for coping with stress that is tied to long-term individual and couple outcomes. Her research investigates the daily experiences of couples, both heterosexual and same-sex.
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Ashley is a doctoral student in Marriage and Family Therapy, a specialization within Human Development and Family Science.