Parenting intervention can result in lower BMIs
…Obesity Professor within the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences and director of the UGA Obesity Initiative, said because parents are often concerned about making sure the…
…Obesity Professor within the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences and director of the UGA Obesity Initiative, said because parents are often concerned about making sure the…
…witnesses. One by one the students took the stand—one as a case manager from the Department of Family and Child Services, one as a forensic interviewer, others as the child’s…
…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…
…of Foods and Nutrition College of Family and Consumer Sciences cjcot@uga.edu 706-542-3073 The overall goal of Cotwright’s work is to create healthy early care and education environments to prevent…
Researchers in the psychology department are conducting a study to learn more about how families communicate about emotions in their marital and parenting relationships. Those eligible to participate in the…
Researchers in the psychology department are conducting a study to learn more about how families communicate about emotions in their marital and parenting relationships. Those eligible to participate in the…
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…
Researchers in the psychology department are conducting a study to learn more about how families communicate about emotions in their marital and parenting relationships. Those eligible to participate in the…
…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…
…the study’s lead author Jacquelyn Mallette, a doctoral candidate in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences’ human development and family science department. “If they’re able to successfully achieve a…
…feel toward their child,” said the study’s lead author Jacquelyn Mallette, a doctoral student in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences’ human development and family science department. “If they’re…
…Family Therapy Certificate Program for the School of Social Work. The certificate is an interdisciplinary program with the College of Education and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. When…
…for children who didn’t get this emotional support.” Children’s resilience also derived from a unique cluster of family practices among rural African-Americans, including child care provided by extended family members,…
…breast-feeding,” said study co-author Alex Anderson, an associate professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences department of foods and nutrition. “Most of them attributed the support they received…
…likely to be successful at breastfeeding,” said study co-author Alex Anderson, an associate professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences department of foods and nutrition. “Most of them…
…Family and Consumer Sciences, said other research has shown parents who enforce restrictions on desirable foods tend to have children who are the most reactive to food in the laboratory….
…Family and Consumer Sciences’ department of human development and family science. This group partnered with UGA Extension faculty in family and consumer sciences and 4-H to refine protocols for outreach…
…understand how contextual factors impact the mental and sexual health of the country’s young pregnant women and to develop interventions that will lead to improved health and parenting skills. “Because…
…young women with skills to build healthy romantic and familial relationships and support networks, increase parenting competence and reduce mental health problems associated with parenting,” Callands said. The project is…
…worked as a teaching assistant for first-year Civil Procedure, a research assistant for professor Bo Rutledge and a German tutor for middle school students. Family Ties to UGA: My brother,…
…principal investigator for the project and an assistant professor in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences’ department of human development and family science. “This doesn’t make sense given…
…was developed by the Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute, a grant-funded program in the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences. PRIDE is included in “Curbing Teen Driver…
…driver crashes. The program was developed by the Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute, a grant-funded program in the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences. PRIDE is included…
Athens, Ga. – As part of an effort to rediscover the roots of home economics and explore its impact on modern society, professors in the fields of family and consumer…
…out more often than their city peers. Parenting practices can help teens cope with these problems. Brody, along with the UGA Center for Family Research, focuses on developing preventative programs…