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Research Interests: Health psychology focused on children and adolescents. Interactions between behavior and health in children and adolescents. Quality of life in childhood, especially in vulnerable groups due to chronic illness, poverty, and racial/ethnic minority status. Health disparities in...

PSY 143: Abnormal Child Psychology

This course reviews scientific knowledge and approaches to learning about and intervening with major psychological disorders in childhood, including adolescence. Examples of disorders that are covered include attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorders, depression, autism...

PSY 221: Issues in Health Psychology

Together with PSY 220, this course will provide a foundation for graduate studies in health psychology. Psy 221 will survey selected issues in health psychology not covered in PSY 220. The specific topics to be covered will be determined each time the course is taught to complement the coverage of...