Expertise

Research Interest:

  • Sleep and Development
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Family Conflict
  • Marital and Parent-Child Relationships
  • Health Disparities.

Research Interest:

  • Family Processes
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Sleep and Development
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Health Disparities.

Research Projects:

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Child Sleep as a Mechanism and Moderator in the Development of Health Disparities
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Family aggression and trajectories of adolescent adaptation: Bioregulatory effects.
Communities
Human Development
Degrees
PhD, West Virginia University, Psychology, 1989
MA, West Virginia University, Psychology, 1988
BA, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Psychology, 1984
Keywords
human development