Research Interests

My research interests are primarily in parent-child interactions in traditional and nontraditional families such as cases involving kinship care. Additional areas of interest include parenting strategy efficacy, children's behavioral problems, the interaction of parent and child variables, adolescent risky behavior, and the efficacy of specific treatments such as PCIT.

Teaching Interests

My teaching interests include courses in abnormal psychology, child clinical psychology, assessment, and treatment of psychopathology.

Courses taught:

• Psy 560 - Assessment of Cognitive and Intellectual Functioning
• Psy 562 - Practicum in Psychological Assessment
• Psy 662 - Practicum in Psychology
• Psy 440 - Abnormal Psychology
• Psy 199 - Introduction to Life-Span Developmental Psychology
• Psy 100 - Introduction to Psychology

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