Research Areas of Specialization: Prevention

Clancy Blair
Design and evaluation of preventive interventions; developmental relation between emotion and cognition in early childhood; application of epidemiological methods to the study of child development.
Douglas Coatsworth
Prevention research and theory; design and evaluation of family-based interventions to promote development and to prevent mental health and behavioral problems in children and adolescents; resilience.
Linda Collins
Measurement and analysis of change in human behavior and ability; research methods; design, and statistics; mathematical models of adolescent substance abuse.
Anthony D'Augelli
Community interventions; issues in the development of sexual orientation.
Scott Gest
Links between reading skills and social competence in elementary school; peer relations; early reading tutoring as a preventive intervention; longitudinal study of patterns of risk and adaptation from childhood to adulthood; behavioral inhibition and related internalizing dimensions of personality and psychopathology.
Mark Greenberg
Intervening in the developmental processes in risk and non-risk populations with a specific emphasis on aggression, violence, and externalizing disorders; promoting healthy social and emotional development; school-based prevention; development of deaf children.
Rukmalie Jayakody
The impacts of poverty and social policies on families and children: welfare reform and barriers to self-sufficiency; family structure and child outcomes; living arrangements and family transitions.
Eva Lefkowitz
Understanding the development of risk behaviors in adolescence and emerging adulthood, particularly sexual behaviors and their correlates.
Jennifer Maggs
Adolescent social development and health; transition to adulthood; risk behaviors; prevention science; research methods; alcohol expectancies.
Emilie Phillips Smith
Home, school, and community partnerships in development and prevention; violence and delinquency; the roles of identity, ethnic identity, and ethnic socialization in child and adolescent development; socio-cultural factors and social capital; protective processes and resilience.
Douglas Teti
Socioemotional development in infancy and early childhood, parenting, and intervention strategies designed to promote early development and parent-child relations.
Steven Zarit
Mental health and aging, especially the stress of caregivers; functioning of the oldest old; innovative models of service delivery.