Ryan Seedall

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services

Human Development and Family Studies

Dr. Ryan Seedall, originally from Rupert, Idaho, has been at Utah State University for the past six years. Prior to that, he received his PhD from Michigan State University in Human Development and Family Studies with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT). During his PhD, Dr. Seedall developed a love of research, especially research that helps improve the therapeutic process. Since arriving at USU, he has also developed a love of teaching and mentoring students, especially the opportunity to help them discover strengths within mentoring students, especially the opportunity to help them discover strengths within projects. These interactions have led to 4 competitive undergraduate research awards (with two more to be submitted in February 2018), 8 local/regional presentations (involving 8 different undergraduates), and 6 national presentations (involving 4 different undergraduates). As part of this, Dr. Seedall mentored an undergraduate to be the primary presenter of a research discussion at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy national conference in Atlanta, Georgia this past year. This is extremely rare in our department and the MFT field. These collaborations with undergraduates will also lead to at least 3 peer-reviewed publications with undergraduate collaborators by the end of 2018.