Faculty
Developmental Psychology Faculty [View Image]
Core Faculty
- Richard Bargdill
Habitual/chronic experiences of boredom; cognitive /phenomenological model of habitual boredom and depression; phenomenological descriptions of meaningful events in the lives of undergraduates. Phenomenological research is a form of qualitative methods that uses narrative accounts to produce rich descriptions of human experience. - Ellen Carpenter
- Danielle Dick
Genetic and environmental influences on the development of alcohol problems and related disorders, such as conduct problems and depression; substance use, behavioral and emotional health and well-being in college students; personalized prevention programming that integrates individual risk information. - Wendy Kliewer
Social development of school-age children; stress and coping by children and parents; health behaviors; effects of violence on children; coping with illness and community violence. - Geri Lotze
Impact of disabilities throughout the lifespan, including healthcare service provision for children, violence prevention in adolescence, and stress and coping during emerging adulthood; children impacted by maternal incarceration. - Fantasy Lozada
Social competence and emotional development among ethnic minority youth, particularly in middle childhood and adolescence; socialization processes in home, school, and Internet contexts; family cultural processes; race-related experiences as a context for child development - Jessica Salvatore
Interpersonal relationships and substance use; gene-environment correlation and gene-environment interaction - Zewelanji Serpell
Cognitive development of school-aged African American children; school-based interventions that target executive functioning; social and cultural contexts of learning; and school mental health. - Terri Sullivan
Impact of peer victimization and witnessed violence on children’s social and emotional development; emotional and social competencies in adolescent development; school-based violence prevention program development and evaluation. - Chelsea Williams
Positive development and well-being, particularly among African American and Latino youth; young children’s ethnic-racial identification; adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity; cultural socialization and the role of the family context - Marcia Winter
Child development in contexts of both acute and chronic stress; susceptibility and adaptation at individual, dyadic, and family group levels; parenting and family processes; biopsychosocial processes of child emotional and physical health.
Affiliate Faculty
- Amy Adkins
- Fazil Aliev
- Peter Barr
- Rosalie Corona
Primary affiliation: Clinical psychology (child/adolescent concentration)
Emotional and behavioral adjustment of minority adolescents, particularly Latino youth; developing and evaluating interventions that promote adolescent health and resilience. - Tracey Gendron
Primary affiliation: Gerontology
Professional identity development and career commitment of Gerontologists, education through community engagement and service-learning, aging anxiety, ageism and gerontophobia, LGBT aging and staff knowledge and quality of care. - Shawn Jones
- Sally Kuo
- Bryce McLeod
Primary affiliation: Child-clinical psychology (child/adolescent concentration)
Research designed to promote understanding of how psychotherapy reduces dysfunction and promotes mental health in youth. - Michael Southam-Gerow, Chair of Psychology Department
Primary affiliation: Child-clinical psychology (child/adolescent concentration)
Treatment of childhood internalizing disorders, evaluation of treatment outcome in real-world settings, developmental psychopathology research related to emotion understanding and regulation. - E. Ayn Welleford
Primary affiliation: Gerontology
Successful aging, caregiver burden, coping with distress, adult mother-daughter relationships, and geriatric education.
Emeritus Faculty
- Barbara Myers
Children and families of incarcerated parents; parenting children with autism spectrum disorders, disabilities, or other risk conditions; early intervention for young children with disabilities.