Expertise

Dr. Toews' program of research focuses on healthy relationships, with particular interest in relationship education and violence prevention programming with adolescents.

Her main research interests include healthy adolescent relationships, relationship education, dating violence, violence prevention, and adolescent parents' co-parenting relationships.

Prior to joining K-State, she taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses, including family relationships, family diversity, cultural diversity, working with families under stress, sexuality across the lifespan, family life education, and research methods to name a few.

Area(s) of Specialization:

  • Healthy Adolescent Relationships
  • Relationship Education
  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Adolescent Parents' Co-Parenting Relationships

Area(s) of Specialization:

  • Violence Prevention
  • Teen Dating Violence
  • Sexual Assault on College Campuses
  • Relationship Education
  • Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Past Affiliations

Scholarship Endowed Human Ecology Faculty Fellow, Department of Applied Human Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences, Kansas State University
2015

Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, College of Health and Human Sciences, Kansas State University

Professor, School of Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Applied Arts, Texas State University (past)

Communities
Human Development, Human Development, Allied Health, Allied Health
Degrees
PhD, Ohio State University, Human Development and Family Science, 2001
MS, Ohio State University, Human Development and Family Science, 1998
BA, Ohio Dominican University, Psychology, 1996
Keywords
domestic violence family romantic relationships dating violence interpersonal violence relationship education coparenting
Associations
National Council on Family Relations