Faculty
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John K. Miller, Ph.D.Associate Professor (DFT) Phone: (954) 262-3029 |
John K. Miller, Ph.D., is the Director of theSino-American Family Therapy Institute and Associate Professor in the area of family therapy and systems theory. His research interests include international issues in counseling, couples, and family therapy (China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico); innovative clinical service delivery systems; core competencies in psychotherapy, and brief, check-up, and single-session treatment models.
Dr. Miller was a founding faculty member of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE)Couples and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Development at the University of Oregon, before moving to Nova Southeastern University in 2011. During his time in Oregon he held several leadership positions at the state and national levels including the Presidency of the Oregon Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (OAMFT, 2001-2003), OAMFT Board of Directors (1998-2000), and Elections Chair (1997). In 2009 he was elected by a vote of the national membership to the Elections Counsel of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) (2004-2007), and to the AAMFT Board of Directors in 2009.
In 2009-2010 Dr. Miller won a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar award from the US Department of State to live and conduct research for a year-long project in Beijing, China (Chinese Ministry of Education, East Asian Academic Exchange; Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs). He has led several national delegations of western scholars to China and southeast Asia since 2005. He has been a visiting faculty lecturer to many of the top psychology programs in Asia including Beijing Normal University, Fuzhou University (Fuzhou, China), Tongji University (Shanghai), Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Shaanxi Normal University (X’ian, China). He is actively engaged in several research and scholarly training projects in China and Southeast Asia.