Faculty Research by Topic

Infancy and Early Childhood

• High Risk Children, including Preterm Infants, Children of Incarcerated Parents, and Children Raised by Their Grandparents (Julie Poehlmann)

Childhood

• Culture, Social History and Child Development  (Jeffrey Lewis)
• Executive Function Development, Training, and Remediation (Janean Dilworth-Bart)
• Social-Emotional Learning Paradigms (Janean Dilworth-Bart)
• School Based Research (Janean Dilworth-Bart)
• Social and Academic Identities of Urban African American School Children (Jeffrey Lewis)

Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

• Adolescent Development in Community Settings (Shep Zeldin)
• Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (Steve Small)
• Parent-Adolescent Relationships (Karen Bogenschneider)
• Parent Education Programs (Karen Bogenschneider, Steve Small)

Adults

• Transition to Adulthood (Bill Aquilino)
• Midlife (Nadine Marks, Steve Small)
• Aging (Nadine Marks)
• Grandparenting (Julie Poehlmann)
• Caregiving (Linda Roberts, Nadine Marks, Lynet Uttal)
• End of Life (Linda Roberts)

Parent-Child Relations

• Attachment Relationships in Infants and Young Children (Julie Poehlmann)
• Parent-Adolescent Relationships (Karen Bogenschneider)
• Adult Child-Parent Relationships (Bill Aquilino)
• Family-Wide Correlates of the Marital Relationship, Including Parent-Child Relationship Quality (Lauren Papp)
• Parenting (Steve Small, Bill Aquilino, Karen Bogenschneider, Dave Riley, Janean Dilworth-Bart, Julie Poehlmann)
• Parent-Education Programs (Dave Riley, Steve Small, Karen Bogenschneider, Lynet Uttal)

Diversity

• Minority and Impoverished Populations (Janean Dilworth-Bart, Jeffrey Lewis, Julie Poehlmann)
• Racial Ethnic Families (Lynet Uttal, Jeffrey Lewis)
• Women of Color in the United States (Lynet Uttal)
• Bicultural Parenting (Lynet Uttal)
• Latino Families (Lynet Uttal)
• Infants & Young Children at Risk for Developmental Problems (Julie Poehlmann)
• Social Relationships, Social Inequities & Health (Nadine Marks, Julie Poehlmann, Linda Roberts)

Couple Relationships

• Marital Conflict in the Home & Children's Immediate Responding & Broader Psychosocial Adjustment (Lauren Papp)
• Interplay Between Marital Functioning (e.g., conflict, satisfaction) and Psychological Distress of Parents & Children  (Linda Roberts, Lauren Papp)
• Marital Interaction (Linda Roberts, Lauren Papp)
• Communication Processes Related to Conflict, Violence, Intimacy, and Caregiving (Linda Roberts)
• End of Life Issues of Couples (Linda Roberts)
• Marital & Relationship Education Programs (Linda Roberts)
• Relationship Conflict & Violence (Linda Roberts)

Child Care

• Parent-Childcare Provider Relationships (Lynet Uttal)
• Caregiving & Carework (Lynet Uttal)
• Analysis of Data from NICHD Study of Child Care (Janean Dilworth-Bart, Lauren Papp)

Prevention and Intervention and Program Development

• Development & Evaluation of Youth and Family Support & Prevention Programs (Karen Bogenschneider, Steve Small, Shep Zeldin, Lynet Uttal, Linda Roberts )
• Planning, Development, & Evaluation of Research Dissemination Efforts Including Community Coalitions, Newsletters, & Policy Education Programs (Karen Bogenschneider, Dave Riley, Julie Poehlmann)
• Prevention Science (Steve Small, Shep Zeldin, Janean Dilworth-Bart, Linda Roberts)

Family Policy

• Utilization of Research in Policy Decisions (Karen Bogenschneider)
• Family Policy as a Field and a Perspective (Karen Bogenschneider)
• Family Impact Analysis (Karen Bogenschneider)
• Child Care Policy (Dave Riley)
• Incarceration & the Family (Julie Poehlmann)

Other

• Innovative Approaches to Youth & Community Development (Shep Zeldin, Lynet Uttal)
• Family Centered Community Development (Lynet Uttal)
• Activist Scholarship (Lynet Uttal)
• Dyadic and Individual coping with Health Issues (Linda Roberts)

Research Methods

• Observational Research (Linda Roberts, Julie Poehlmann, Dave Riley, Janean Dilworth-Bart, Lauren Papp)
• Diary Methodology (Lauren Papp, Linda Roberts)
• Survey Methodology (Bill Aquilino, Nadine Marks, Linda Roberts)
• Hierarchical Linear Modeling in Couple & Family Research (Lauren Papp)
• Randomized Clinical Trials (Linda Roberts)
• Community-Based & Action-Oriented Research Methods (Steve Small, Lynet Uttal, Shep Zeldin, Dave Riley)
  Program Evaluation (Karen Bogenschneider, Lynet Uttal, Steve Small, Shep Zeldin, Dave Riley, Linda Roberts)
  Qualitative/interpretive Methods (Lynet Uttal, Jeffrey Lewis, Linda Roberts)
  In-depth Interviewing (Lynet Uttal, Julie Poehlmann, Linda Roberts)