E-Mail    mdolbinm@vt.edu

Mailing Address   Marriage and Family Therapy Center
                               800 University City Blvd., Suite 1 (0515)
                              Blacksburg, VA 24061

               Phone    540-231-6807

                   Fax       540-231-7209

     Office Hours    By appointment

     Staff Contact   Ms. Chris Sokol (540-231-7201)

 

Primary Academic Interests

• Attachment and Affect Regulation in Nontraditional Families
  
• Intergenerational Relationships
  
• Grandparent-Headed Families
  
• Infertility
  
• Marriage and Family Therapy

Professional Responsibilities

• Clinical Supervision
  
• Teaching
  
• Internship Coordinator
  
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical
• Member
  
• National Council on Family Relationships

Current Research

• Grandchildren in Grandparent-Headed Families
  
• Health of Grandparent Caregivers

Selected Publications and Presentations

Dolbin-MacNab, M.L. (in press). Just Like Raising Your Own?  Grandparents' Perceptions of Raising their Children versus Grandchildren. Family Relations.

Dolbin-MacNab, M. L., & Keiley, M. K. (2006).  A systemic examination of grandparents' emotional closeness with their custodial grandchildren.  Research in Human Development, 3, 59-71.

Fingerman, K., & Dolbin-MacNab, M.L. (2006).  The baby boomers and their parents: Cohort influences and intergenerational ties. In S.K. Whitbourne and S.L. Willis (Eds.), The baby boomers at midlife: Contemporary perspectives on middle age. (pp. 237-259).  New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., Burau, N., Rodgers, B., Stewart, S., Finney, J.W., & Roberto, K.A. (2006, October).  Grandfamilies: Parenting satisfaction and family functioning. Poster to be presented at the 64th annual meeting of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Austin, TX.

Glover, M.B., Cowart, B.L., Finney, J.W., Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., & Roberto, K.A. (2006, April). Grandchildren raised by grandparents: Parenting and financial stress, psychosocial problems, and health care use.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Conference on Child Health Psychology, Gainesville, FL.

Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., Nielson, L.R., & Keiley (2005, November). Family relationships of adolescents being raised by grandparents. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Phoenix, AZ.

Dolbin-MacNab, M.L. (2005, October). Treatment recommendations from grandparent-headed families. Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Kansas City, MO.

Keiley, M.K., Dankoski, M., Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., & Liu, T. (2005). Covariance structure analysis: From path analysis to structural equation modeling. In D.H. Sprenkle and F.P. Piercy (Eds.), Research methods in family therapy (2nd ed., pp. 432-460). New York: Guilford.

Keiley, M.K., Martin, N.C., Liu, T., & Dolbin-MacNab, M.L. (2005). Multi-level modeling in the context of family research. In D.H. Sprenkle and F.P. Piercy (Eds.), Research methods in family therapy (2nd ed., 405-431). New York: Guilford.

Pratt, D.M. & Dolbin-MacNab, M.L. (2004, November). Where do you stand? Frameworks for teaching and learning qualitative research. Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Orlando, FL.

Dolbin, M.L. (2003). Becoming the author of your life: Writing stories of change. In L. Hecker & K. Sori (Eds.), The therapist’s notebook for children and adolescents: Homework, handouts, and activities for use in psychotherapy (pp. 237- 241). New York: Haworth Press.

Dolbin, M.L. (2003). Getting to know the characters inside me. In L. Hecker & K. Sori (Eds.), The therapist’s notebook for children and adolescents: Homework, handouts, and activities for use in psychotherapy (pp. 40-45). New York: Haworth Press.

Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., & Natrajan, R. (2003, June). Don’t lose your cool! Managing your affect while interacting with students about sensitive subjects. Workshop presented at the 15th Annual Teaching Family Science Conference, Gatlinburg, TN.

Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., & Targ, D.B. (2003). Grandparents raising grandchildren: Guidelines for family life educators and other family professionals. In B. Hayslip, Jr. & J.H. Patrick (Eds.), Working with Custodial Grandparents (pp. 213-228). New York: Springer Publishing (Reprinted).

Dolbin-MacNab, M.L., & Targ, D.B. (2003, November). Interventions with grandparent-headed families: What can we learn from therapeutic tasks for stepfamilies? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Pratt, D.R., & Dolbin-MacNab, M.L. (2003). Marriage and family therapy students learning qualitative research: Frameworks identified through participatory-observation. The Qualitative Report, 8(3), 333-352.

Takigiku, S.T., Keiley, M.K., MacDermid, S., Lewis, R.A., & Dolbin-MacNab, M.L. (2003, November). A cross-domain growth analysis of drug-abusing women’s drug use and relationship adjustment with partners over eighteen months. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Keiley, M.K., Dolbin, M., Hill, J., Karuppaswamy, N., Liu, T., Natrajan, R., Poulsen, S., Robbins, N., & Robinson, P. (2002). The cultural genogram: Experiences from within an MFT training program. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 28, 165-177.

Bourdeau, E., & Dolbin, M.L. (2001). The only true constant in life is change: Therapy with the Bradleys. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 7, 63-72.

Targ, D.B., & Dolbin, M.L. (2001). Grandparents raising grandchildren: Guidelines for family life educators and other family professionals. Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family, 1(2), 1-13.

Targ, D.B. & Dolbin, M.L. (2000, November). Grandparents raising grandchildren: Guidelines for professionals. Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, MN.

 

 

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