About

I am a Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. I earned by B.S. at Pennsylvania State University, and my M.A & Ph.D. – Emory University. I completed by Predoctoral Internship at Medical University South Carolina and Postdoctoral Internship at University of Oregon

I am also active with the Biostatistics program in the School of Medicine at CWRU, where I lead the Social Sciences track in the MS graduate program. My work is grounded in an ecological perspective on child development, which highlights the importance of integrating multiple levels of influence on child functioning, ranging from cultural to neurobiological factors. My research is centered on family functioning, as transactions within families as crucial to both the etiology of emotional and behavioral problems in youth, and provide important targets for intervention.

My research program integrates both basic and applied topics, with lines of work focused on refining family-focused prevention and intervention practices, as well as on the etiology of emotional and behavioral disorders across childhood and adolescence. My work has been funded by NIH and the Institute for Education Sciences, in addition to internal and foundation-grants.

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