| Dr. Davey joined the faculty at Drexel University's Graduate programs in Couple and Family Therapy in the fall of 2006. She has been teaching, providing clinical supervision, and conducting research in accredited MFT programs since 1998, and additionally worked for two years as a clinical director of children's outpatient programs at a community mental health agency.
Program of Research:
Dr. Davey's program of research primarily focuses on the development of culturally sensitive family-based interventions for historically under-served populations. She currently studies families in which a parent and/or school-age child is coping with a physical illness (e.g., breast cancer in a parent or HIV/AIDS in school-age children). Dr. Davey is collaborating with breast surgeons at an urban clinic and also with a physician who is treating adolescent and school-age children coping with HIV/AIDS, to develop evidenced based medical family therapy practices for ethnic minority families.
Areas of Specialization and Teaching:
Medical Family Therapy, Couple and Family Therapy Theory, Research Methods, Couple and Sex Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Adolescent and Ethnic Identity Development, Systemic change and Second Order Change, and Evidenced Based Practices.
Clinical Certifications and Memberships:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Commonweath of Pennsylvania, Clinical Member
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Approved Supervisor
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Member
Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, Clinical Member
Representative Publications:
Davey, M., Gulish, L., Askew, J., Godette, K., & Childs, N. (2005). Adolescents coping with mom’s breast cancer: Developing family intervention programs. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 31(2), 245-256.
Davey, M., Askew, J., & Godette, K. (Sep, 2003). Parent and adolescent responses to non-terminal parental cancer: A retrospective multiple-case pilot study. Families, Systems, and Health, 21(3), 245-258.
Davey, M., Eaker, D., Stone Fish, L., & Klock, K. (April, 2003). Ethnic identity in an American white minority ethnic group. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 3(2), 143-158.
Davey, M., Eaker, D., & Walters, L. (2003). Resilience processes in adolescents: Personality
profiles, self-worth, and coping. Journal of Adolescent Research, 18, 347-362.
Davey, M., Stone Fish, L., Askew, J., & Robila, M. (April, 2003). Parenting Practices and the transmission of ethnic identity. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 29(2), 195-208.
Davey, M. & Watson, M. (revise and resubmit). Engaging African Americans in Therapy: Integrating a Public Policy and Family Therapy Perspective, Contemporary Family Therapy.
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