Dr. Stoppelbein’s research interests are within the area of family adjustment and stress and she has published over 5 dozen peer-reviewed articles on topics such as trauma responses in children and families, aggression, impulsivity, and is completing a number of projects on understanding comorbid internalizing and externalizing problems among children with an ASD.
Keywords: Developmental psychopathology with a specific interest in family and environmental stressors that impact the expression of child emotional and behavioral problems; coping with stress and the relation between child and parent coping and psychopathology; biopsychosocial models of stress and the expression of internalizing and externalizing symptoms among children with various types of mental health disorders (e.g., autism, ADHD, trauma experiences)
