…adulthood. Katherine Ehrlich “This isn’t just the direct ‘know where your kids are’ type of parenting, and it’s not helicopter parenting that makes a difference,” said Katherine Ehrlich, co-author of…
…of Georgia researchers have shown elevation in pandemic-related family stress intensified the negative impact of child maltreatment on sleep problems among boys. No significant associations between adverse parenting and sleep…
…light on an understudied topic. While money has a significant impact on better-researched subjects like marriage and parenting, it’s still relatively uncommon to explore the psychology behind the finances themselves,…
…moving research forward that addresses how stress impacts family functioning and youth well-being.” Family-centered interventions Family-centered programs are a start. And UGA research is leading the way. The Strong African…
…Faculty Leadership Institute. Shaffer’s research focuses on risk, resilience, and development in the family context, with an emphasis on emotion regulation and communication. She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed…
Study suggests boys more vulnerable when parents have poor coping mechanisms Childhood abuse and trauma are linked to many health issues in adulthood. New research from the University of Georgia…
…Public Health. Fusco, whose research interests center around child welfare, family mental health and intimate partner violence, is seeking to better understand how maternal substance use problems are connected to…
…Athletic Association Professor in Ecology and Infectious Diseases in the Odum School of Ecology and the College of Veterinary Medicine Ronald L. Simons, 2020 Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Research Professor…
…for the Center for Family Research by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. UGA researchers Steven Kogan, Athletic Association Professor of Human Development, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and…
…expeditionary research programs in Canada, Africa, the continental United States, Asia and Greenland over the past 15 years. These research expeditions have led to new insights on the origin of…
…of stress from economic and social factors. Beach also serves as co-director of the Center for Family Research Clinical Program in the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research at UGA. Beach…
…given child reacts may matter in the long run. Strictness causes stress The parents in the project practiced what the researchers called firm parenting. Firm parents are stricter. They don’t…
…The researchers use a coding system to analyze the speech for warmth and criticism. If they score high on criticism, the team redirects the family to emotional coaching. “My research…
…IQ190 Productions, American Documentary | POV (PBS) “POV: Midnight Traveler” Filmed on phones by Hassan Fazili, this poignant autobiographical account of his refugee family’s journey from Afghanistan to Hungary is…
…Extension specialist and family life education professor in the department of human development in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, specializes in family relationships, many of which can…
…I was a research scientist at the Mt. Hope Family Center at the University of Rochester, and I was interested in finding a tenure-track position in a research-intensive university that…
…bosses and companies to help working parents manage work-family image issues is to provide family-friendly policies and positive role models, Little said. She encourages working parents to embrace “positive distinctiveness,”…
…work. Decades of research have focused on mother-child attachment security, but there’s much less research on the father-child relationship and how a secure attachment relationship is formed. For this study,…
…in the everyday,” said lead author Allen Barton, an assistant research scientist at the Center for Family Research and the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences. “Routines play an…
…bachelor’s degree in psychology. She has a real estate license. She also works in the College of Family and Consumer Science’s foods and nutrition department as a research coordinator. “I…
…behaviors are imprinted early. So our research intervention was designed to intervene early when these behaviors are being established and before overweight or obesity develops.” The researchers recruited 279 first-time…
…enhances supportive parenting and strengthens family relationships, removes the effects of poverty on brain development. In a paper published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, Gene…
…about how to battle this serious health concern. One of the University of Georgia’s primary research emphases is on improving human health. UGA has assembled faculty research teams that…
A supportive family environment can help reduce the biological impact of racial discrimination on adolescent African-Americans, according to a new study by the UGA Center for Family Research. The study…
…lead author Gene Brody, who is the director of the UGA Center for Family Research and housed in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. “This study shows that families…
