A5065446005- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Community Health and Development
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Image and Video Stabilization
- Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Uterine Myomas and Treatments
- Endometriosis Research and Treatment
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
New York University
2016-2025
Foundation for Child Development
2024
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2012-2023
NYU Langone Health
2013-2021
Indiana University School of Medicine
2018-2021
Education and Early Childhood Development
2013-2021
Shanghai Public Security Bureau
2018
University School
2011-2017
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2015
The University of Texas at Austin
2015
To test the hypothesis that family intervention to promote effective parenting in early childhood affects obesity preadolescence.Participants were 186 minority youth at risk for behavior problems who enrolled long-term follow-up studies after random assignment or control condition age 4. Follow-up Study 1 included 40 girls familial problems; 2 146 boys and based on teacher ratings. Family aimed prevent during childhood; it did not focus physical health. BMI health behaviors measured an...
This study examines the efficacy of ParentCorps among 4‐year‐old children ( N = 171) enrolled in prekindergarten schools a large urban school district. includes series 13 group sessions for parents and held at during early evening hours facilitated by teachers mental health professionals. resulted significant benefits on effective parenting practices teacher ratings child behavior problems school. Intervention effects were similar magnitude families different levels risk Black Latino...
This study examined the mental health and academic functioning of 442 4- 5-year old children Mexican (MA) Dominican (DA) immigrant mothers using a cultural framework Latino parenting. Data were collected on mothers' self-reported acculturative status, parenting practices socialization, children's behavioral (mother- teacher-report) school readiness (child test). Results provide partial support for validity in which status socialization respeto (a value respect) independence U.S. American...
Adolescent pregnancies within urban resource-deprived settlements predispose young girls to adverse mental health and psychosocial adversities, notably depression. Depression in sub-Saharan Africa is a leading contributor years lived with disability (YLD). The study's objective was determine the prevalence of depression related risks among pregnant adolescents reporting at maternal child clinic Nairobi, Kenya. A convenient sample 176 attending antenatal Kangemi primary healthcare facility...
The key objective of this paper is to provide a phenomenological account the mental health challenges and experiences adolescent new mothers. We explore role social support absence empathy plays in depression among pregnant adolescents. project also collected data on adolescents' caregiving environment which includes mothers, their partners, community, care workers, as well feedback from staff nurses at maternal child centers. caregivers additional insight into some barriers access services...
<h3>Context</h3> Salivary cortisol levels during social challenge relate to adaptive functioning in children and adults. Low have been related conduct problems antisocial behavior. Although studies rodents implicate early-life experience regulation, no with humans examined the effects of an experimentally manipulated on regulation. <h3>Objective</h3> To examine experimental manipulations response a preschoolers at risk for <h3>Design</h3> Randomized controlled trial. <h3>Setting</h3>...
Parent involvement is a robust predictor of academic achievement, but little known about school- and home-based in immigrant families. Drawing on ecological theories, the present study examined contextual characteristics as predictors parent among Afro-Caribbean Latino parents young students urban public schools. Socioeconomic disadvantage was associated with lower involvement. Several factors were higher involvement, including parents’ connection to their culture origin U.S. culture,...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of an early childhood, family-centered, school-based intervention on children’s kindergarten academic achievement. METHODS: This was a cluster (school) randomized controlled trial with assessments from pre-kindergarten (pre-k) entry through end kindergarten. The setting 10 public elementary schools 26 pre-k classes in 2 school districts urban disadvantaged neighborhoods serving largely black, low-income population. Participants were 1050 black and Latino,...
Low-income minority children living in urban neighborhoods are at high risk for mental health problems and underachievement. ParentCorps, a family-centered, school-based intervention prekindergarten, improves parenting school readiness (ie, self-regulation preacademic skills) 2 randomized clinical trials. The longer-term effect on child academic performance is not known.
Adolescent pregnancies present a great public health burden in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa (UNFPA, Motherhood Childhood: Facing the challenge of Pregnancy, 2013). The disenfranchisement from institutions services is further compounded by cultural stigma gender inequality creating emotional, psychosocial, health, educational problems lives vulnerable pregnant adolescents (Int J Adolesc Med Health 15(4):321–9, 2003; BMC Public 8:83, 2008). In this paper we have applied an engagement interview...
This study explored the factor structure and developmental trajectory of effortful control (EC), its relations with child adjustment, moderating role age gender in 75 4- to 6-year-old children at risk for psychopathology. Confirmatory analyses revealed two subcomponents control: Suppress/Initiate (the ability inhibit a dominant response while initiating new response) Motor Control (inhibiting fine gross motor activity). EC performance improved age, both were associated greater social...
This article presents long-term effects of a preventive intervention for young children at high risk antisocial behavior. Ninety-two (M age = 4 years) were randomly assigned to an 8-month family or no-intervention control condition and assessed times over 24-month period. Intent-to-treat analyses revealed significant on observed child physical aggression, found the end program maintained follow-up responsive parenting, harsh parenting stimulation learning. Parent ratings aggression did not...
This study examined relations among family environment, cortisol response, and behavior in the context of a randomized controlled trial with 92 children ( M = 48 months) at risk for antisocial behavior. Previously, researchers reported an intervention effect on response anticipation social challenge. The current whether changes were related to later child aggression. Among lower warmth families, aggression was largely mediated by response. Although also resulted significant benefits engaging...
This study examined mother- and teacher-rated internalizing behaviors (i.e., anxiety, depression, somatization symptoms) among young children using longitudinal data from a community sample of 661 Mexican Dominican families tested conceptual model in which parenting (mother's socialization messages practices) predicted child problems 12 months later. Children evidenced elevated levels mother-rated anxiety at both time points. Findings also supported the validity proposed for families....
Background: Parenting practices predict early childhood physical aggression. Preventive interventions that alter parenting and aggression during provide the opportunity to test causal models of psychopathology. Although there have been several informative preventive intervention studies mediation in older children, no such conducted with younger children at high risk for Method: Within context a randomized controlled trial, we examined whether changes mediate effects family on observed among...