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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…

Trial run

…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…

Childhood obesity: UGA experts are on the front line

…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…

Family communication 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…

Family communication 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…

Family communication 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…

Betsy Vonk

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…

Research focuses on family success

…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,…

Restricted refreshments

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….

Ellen Clarke

…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,…

Teens take PRIDE in their driving

…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…

Study shows family solution to teen troubles

…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…