interdisciplinary studies
World AIDS Day highlights crisis in HIV funding
Federal HIV funding cuts put decades of progress at risk. SBH reflects on World AIDS Day and the community outreach work
research, counseling and family sciences, students
Marital and Family Therapy Research That Lifts Communities
LLU's DMFT program partners with community agencies to give students hands-on research experience—while strengthening th
How an SBH Alum is Turning Sickle Cell Awareness into Action
Discover how alum Carlene Fider is helping advance research and raise awareness of sickle cell disease and sickle cell t
counseling and family sciences, faculty
Dr. Kristen Watkins joins the Counseling and Family Sciences faculty
Meet Dr. Kristen Watkins, a DMFT alumna and grief and play therapy specialist who joins the Counseling and Family Scienc
social work, students
Lobby Days: Connecting Policy and Purpose
An MSW student reflects on NASW Lobby Days at the California Capitol—and how advocacy at the systems level deepened her
counseling and family sciences
Building Systemic Excellence: Inside Loma Linda University's COAMFTE-Accredited MFT Programs
All four of LLU's MFT programs hold COAMFTE accreditation. Learn what that means for students, program quality, and the
child life, collaboration, counseling and family sciences
Learning Through Compassion: Child Life Students Practice Whole Person Care in the Sim Lab
Child Life students join medicine, nursing, and religion in LLU's end-of-life simulation—practicing whole person care, g
dean's message, global mental health, mental health
World Mental Health Day 2025
SBH Dean Dr. Bev Buckles reflects on World Mental Health Day 2025 and the importance of access, compassion, and communit
psychology, faculty
Dr. Brianna Hardt returns to SBH Psychology as clinical faculty
LLU Clinical Psychology PhD alumna Dr. Brianna Hardt returns to the Department of Psychology as a clinical faculty membe
counseling and family sciences, faculty, alumni
ROOTS Prenatal Support Group
SBH faculty member Dr. Elizabeth James founded ROOTS, a prenatal support group at LLUCH that addresses prenatal depressi