Expertise

Research Interests

  • Youth violence prevention
  • Adverse childhood experience and promoting resilience

My clinical and research interests are focused on promoting positive youth development. My research focuses on violence prevention and addressing the effects that contextual risk factors have on children's and adolescents' development and functioning. Specifically, I am interested in the dynamic interaction between a child and his or her environment, and how that relates to the development of problem behaviors.

Krista Mehari is an assistant professor of psychology and human development and a community-based researcher who studies youth violence prevention by collaborating with schools, police departments, local businesses, and organizations to understand factors that catalyze youth violence and to develop violence prevention programs and strategies.

Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Alabama

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

Communities
Psychology
Degrees
PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Clinical Psychology, 2015
MS, Virginia Commonwealth University, Clinical Psychology, 2011
BA, Hope College, Psychology, 2009
Keywords
adolescents at-risk children or youth racial issues traumatology, accidents & injury health disparities violence prevention adverse childhood experiences
Associations
American Psychological Association
society for research on child development