Christopher Lucey is a professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Rehabilitation
and teaches within the Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling (MFCC) program. He
is the program's liaison with the State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences
and Fresno State's liaison for the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related
Educational Programs (CACREP). Dr. Lucey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
(LMFT) in California and licensed as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC)
inactive in Ohio.
Since 2006, Dr. Lucey has served as the Director of Fresno Family Counseling Center
(FFCC). The FFCC is a California State University, Fresno and Kremen School of Education and
Human Development (KSOEHD) sponsored, community-based mental health center with the
primary purpose of providing low-cost, high quality counseling services to residents
of Fresno County and the surrounding areas while providing students enrolled in the
Master of Science in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling Program (MFCC) highly
structured, intensely supervised training in mental health counseling.
Dr. Lucey specializes in topics related to mental health crises and suicide and has
presented locally, nationally and internationally in areas of crisis intervention
and adolescent suicide assessment. He teaches psychopathology, child adolescent therapy,
and practicum courses in the MFCC graduate program, in addition to training and supervising
graduate students.
- Weir, K.N., Pierce, L.M., & Lucey, C. (2014). Establishing Innovative Student Training
Clinics for Counselor Educators and Marriage and Family Therapists CLEARvoz Journal – Published on-line Jan. 31, 2014.
- Staton, A. R., Evans, W., & Lucey, C. F., (2012). Understanding Social Class in the
US. Sturm, D.C., & Gibson, D.M. (Eds.). Social class and the helping professions: A clinician's guide to navigating the landscape
of class in America. New York: Routledge.
- Lucey, C., & Lam, S. (2012). Predicting suicide risks among outpatient adolescents
using the Family Environment Scale: Implications for practice and research. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling.
- Lam, S., Tracz, S., & Lucey, C. (2013). Ethnicity of counsellor trainees and corresponding
counselling self-efficacy: Research findings and implications for counsellor educators.
International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling.
- Staton, A. R. & Lucey, C. F. (2004). The family contraction project. Journal of Family Psychotherapy. 15, 3, 87-91.
- Lucey, C. F. & Staton, A. R. (2003). Constructing a solutions time-line: Creating
possibilities in counseling. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families. 11, 4. 409-412.
- Kiyuna, R., S., Lucey, C. F., Tracz, S. (2002). Site-based counseling in elementary
schools. Professional Issues in Counseling. Available on-line: www.shsu.edu/~piic.
- Prosnic, K., Wolt, A., Kepner, J., Wagner, J., Park, A., Evans, W., Coe, D., & Lucey,
C. (1998). History and psychometric properties of the Gestalt Contact Styles Questionnaire.
Australian Gestalt Journal. 2, 2, 65-76.
- Bubenzer, D., West, J., Cryder, A. P., & Lucey, C. F. (1997). Karl Tomm: Threads
to his work. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families. 5, 1, 84-97.