Department of Counseling, Family Therapy and Higher Education

Dr. Tatjana Farley is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Family Therapy, and Higher Education. She serves as the field experience coordinator and is core faculty for the marriage and family therapy program. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state of North Carolina, a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a member of the National Council on Family Relations.

Dr. Farley is an alumna of the Appalachian State marriage and family therapy program and received her Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from Florida State University. In 2022, she received the AAMFT Graduate Student Research Award. 

Her research focuses on anger and aggression, developmental trauma, and how the interrelationship connects youth to the juvenile justice and foster care systems. She is a member of AAMFT, NCAMFT, ad NCFR.

Selected Publications

• Unhjem, L., McWey, L. M., Ledermann, T., & Farley, T. M. (2023). Quality of the parent-child relationship as a moderator of witnessing violence and youth trauma symptoms. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.
• Farley, T. M., McWey, L. M., & Lederman, T. (2021). Thought problems and aggression over time among youth in foster care. Child & Youth Care Forum, 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10566021-09652-y
• Farley, T. M. & McWey, L. M. (2020). Anger and aggression among maltreated youth: Mediating pathways. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma, 30, 139-15. doi: 10.1080/10926771.2020.1821854
• Farley, T. M., McWey, L. M., & Lederman, T. (2020). Trauma and violence as predictors of internalizing and externalizing symptoms of youth in residential child welfare placements. Journal of Family Violence, 36, 249-258. doi: 10.1007/s10896-020-00140-w

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