Affiliated ScientistsNames are listed alphabetically. Edward Anderson, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Edward Anderson received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Virginia and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology (Division of Human Development and Family Sciences) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Dr. Anderson also is a Faculty Affiliate of the Population Research Center at UT, and serves as the Graduate Program Director for Human Development and Family Sciences. His research focuses on the adjustment of children and families to parental divorce, repartnering, and remarriage.
Thomas J. Dishion, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Dishion received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon. His interests include understanding the development of antisocial behavior and substance abuse in children and adolescents, as well as designing effective interventions and prevention programs. In particular, he and colleagues have examined the contribution of peer and family dynamics to escalations in adolescent substance use, delinquency, and violence. His intervention research focuses on the effectiveness of family-centered interventions, and the negative effects of aggregating high-risk youth into intervention groups
Gordon Harold, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Professor Gordon Harold is the Alexander McMillan Chair in Childhood Studies, Professor of Psychology and Director of the newly established Centre for Research on Children and Families at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His primary research interests focus on the role of the family as a context for understanding children’s normal and abnormal psychological development. He is presently involved in several ongoing longitudinal projects including studies examining the interplay between genetic and family environmental factors on children’s mental health, the early origins of childhood aggression and disruptive behaviour disorders, the long-term impact of domestic violence on children’s psychological development and the implementation of effective intervention programmes aimed at assisting children in the context of parental separation and divorce. Professor Harold is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in London and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University Law School.
John Knutson, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. John F. Knutson is a consultant on Pathways Home: Reducing Risk in the Child Welfare System and a collaborator with other OSLC scientists on projects related to physical abuse and neglect. Dr. Knutson is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa. Dr. Knutson received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Washington State University. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Psychology at The University of Oregon Medical School, he joined the faculty at Iowa, where he was a recipient of the Regents’ Award for Faculty Excellence in 1999.
John Landsverk, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Landsverk directs the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) at Children’s Hospital in San Diego, is Senior Scholar at the Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, and Senior Research Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Southern California.
Jenae Neiderhiser, Ph.D.Jenae Neiderhiser received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from The Pennsylvania State University in 1994. She was at the Center for Family Research at The George Washington University from 1994-2007 before returning to The Pennsylvania State University as a member of the Department of Psychology. Dr. Neiderhiser is interested in understanding the interplay between genes and environment throughout the lifespan. The environmental influences that she has examined most closely are interpersonal relationships – including parent-child, spouse, sibling and peer relationships.
David Reiss, M.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Reiss, Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, began a program of research on family process over forty five years ago. Deploying field and laboratory methods, his earlier worked focused on the social processes that influence cognition with special reference to schizophrenia and conduct disorders in adolescence. Much of that work is summarized in The Family's Construction of Reality (Harvard U. Press, 1981). In the mid 80s Dr. Reiss was among the first social scientists to recognize the importance of integrating genetics and powerful, genetically-informed designs into detailed studies of social process in families.
James J. Snyder, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Snyder received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1977. He worked as a clinical practitioner with children, adolescents and families in Boston and New York City before becoming a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Wichita State University where he is currently the Erker Distinguished Professor in Psychology. Dr. Snyder’s teaching and research specialties are developmental psychopathology, the origins and manifestations of aggressive behavior, and the development and evaluation of family- and school-based preventive and clinical interventions for child conduct problems and delinquency.
Mike Stoolmiller, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Stoolmiller, PhD, is currently a research associate at the University of Oregon, College of Education and also runs a private consulting company, Research & Statistical Consulting, with world headquarters in Marquette, Michigan. Dr. Stoolmiller received his training in counseling and educational psychology at the University of Oregon. Dr. Stoolmiller’s research has focused on studying family and peer social influences on the development of antisocial behavior during childhood and early adolescent with a special emphasis on developing coding systems for observing behavior and statistical methods for the analysis of social interaction data.
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Over 200 StaffOver 200 staff work at the Center, including research scientists, clinical psychologists, family interventionists, parent educators, statisticians, computer programmers, observers, interviewers, and support staff.
22 Published ScientistsAmong the staff are 22 members who have earned their Ph.D. in either clinical, developmental, counseling, or school psychology. Each publishes extensively in the scientific literature, and regularly presents research results at international, national, regional, and/or state conferences.
Affiliations and CollaborationsOSLC is not formally affiliated with a college or university, but several OSLC scientists have appointments in either the College of Arts and Sciences or the College of Education at the University of Oregon as well as other regional academic institutions, such as Portland State University. We collaborate with researchers in a variety of academic fields working in universities, governmental agencies, and non-profit research institutes throughout the U.S. and the world. Locally, OSLC researchers have active research collaborations with a variety of non-profit and governmental agencies involved in service delivery relevant to children, families, and adults.
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