Faculty Research

“A systems model of disease assumes that many factors or processes interact to produce a particular clinical syndrome. Each factor has an effect on the others, such that the behavior or activity of any one factor cannot be understood out of the context of its relationship to the others. ”: ~ Michael E. Kerr, MD & Murray Bowen, MD

Mercy Russell Hyde, M.S.W.

Mercy Russell Hyde, MSW’s research interests include a natural system’s view of slavery through the study of slavemaking in a nonhuman species: the ant; the societal emotional process in the history of American slavery and the civil rights movement; and the development of research methodology to validate single case participant-observer research in the application of Bowen Family System’s Theory in one’s own family.

Erik Thompson, M.A.

Erik Thompson, MA’s research interests include gaining a systems view of self-injurious behavior by including facts about the social context of this behavior in non-human primates. The research has implications for understanding alarm stimulating behavior in other realms.