Projects

Adult and Family Development Project

This program represents a series of studies of Children in Alcoholic and non-Alcoholic Families. This program of research has been funded by NIDA and NIAAA; continuously since 1987. The goal of this project is to understand the intergenerational transmission of risk for alcoholism and drug abuse/dependence.

Bridges to High School/Puentes a La Secundaria

The Bridges to High School Project (Bridges / Puentes) is a multi-cohort, experimental field trial of a culturally competent intervention to prevent school dropout and mental health disorders for low-income Mexican American adolescents.

Children of Unemployed Parents Study: CUPS

This collaborative research project is the next step in a coordinated program of research on the prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders in children and families experiencing job loss.

Contextual Factors Study

This pilot study was designed to provide a data set for the development of new measures to assess acculturative status (i.e., degree of acculturation and enculturation on specific dimensions of beliefs) and context (i.e., parent and child reports of neighborhood quality with separate measures for reports of objective characteristics of the neighborhood, such as amount of graffiti, and reports of subjective feelings about the quality of the area, such as fear of crime).

Dads For Life

The Dads for Life project (5RO1MHH51184) evaluates an intervention designed to prevent children's post-divorce mental health problems by targeting noncustodial fathers. We take the perspective that all divorced fathers can benefit their children's well-being, whatever their custody arrangements.

Effects and Meaning of Fathers for Adolescents Parents and Youth Study: PAYS

Three researchers from Arizona State University are teaming up with two UC Riverside researchers to study how fathers and stepfathers influence the mental health and behavior of teenagers. The five-year comprehensive longitudinal research will be funded with a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Family Bereavement Program: FBP

This grant was funded to conduct an experimental trial of a theoretically based preventive intervention for bereaved children and their surviving caretaker (NIMH R01-MH49155). The program includes 12 group and 2 individual sessions to build coping skills and coping efficacy for children and adolescents and 12 group and 2 individual sessions to build and support effective parenting during grief.

Family Bereavement Program Follow-up

This current project is a federally funded NIMH (R01 MH49155) six year follow-up of 244 adolescents/young adults and their caregivers who participated in an experimental evaluation of a preventive intervention program for families who have experienced parental death (see Family Bereavement Program).

New Beginnings Follow-up Children of Divorce: A Six-Year Follow-up of Preventive Efforts

This RO1 supported a six-year follow-up of the effects of the two preventive interventions for children of divorce, a mother program and a dual-component program, relative to the literature control condition.

Parenting Young Children

The Parenting Young Children (PYC) Project is a research study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to develop and evaluate strategies for increasing parenting program participation.

Pathways to Desistance

This project involves a longitudinal study of serious juvenile offenders and attempts to identify predictors of desistance.

Proyecto: La Familia (The Family Project)

Proyecto: La Familia (The Family Project) is a longitudinal study of 700 Mexican American families that will examine the interactions among individual, family, school, and community influences on development.

Osborn Community Assessment Project: OCAP

This community-University partnership was a collaborative effort between several ASU faculty and the administration and teachers of an inner-city school District. The goals were to identify strengths and weaknesses within the school system that contributed to children’s academic achievement and school behavior.

Social Psychological Factors in Teen and Adult Smoking

This longitudinal study follows a community sample of midwestern adults and their children to chart trajectories of cigarette smoking, predictors of smoking transitions, and pathways underlying the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior.

Together Raising Successful Teens: Juntos

This project is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD39666) to learn about the successes and challenges of Mexican American families raising teenagers.