OSLC ScientistsOSLC Scientists are listed alphabetically. Lew Bank, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Lew Bank is an OSLC research scientist and a licensed psychologist. Dr. Bank has worked with children and families for more than 30 years, with a focus on parenting, sibling conflict, and child adjustment. In addition, he has developed parent management training curricula consistent with community values and goals combined with the best practices developed and tested at OSLC. Currently, Dr. Bank is collaborating with several Oregon counties to develop assessment and intervention capacity in those communities: The Healthy Family Project in Lincoln County and The Community Database Project in Tillamook County.
Deborah Capaldi, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Capaldi came to OSLC in 1983 to manage the Oregon Youth Study. Initially, her work was focused on the causes of delinquency in adolescence and of associated behaviors such as substance use, depression, and health-risking sexual behavior. This work has now expanded to consider these questions through the early adult period, and to include other important aspects of adult life-span adjustment such as employment problems and the persistence and desistance of crime in early adulthood. Another area of interest is in factors that relate to successful romantic relationships in early adulthood compared to problems such as domestic violence and relationship break up.
Patricia Chamberlain, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Chamberlain’s interest in developing interventions for children and families emerged from her early work as a special education teacher. She has conducted several studies on treatment for children, youth, and families in the juvenile justice, mental health and child welfare systems. She founded the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) model which is an alternative to group, residential, and institutional placement for youngsters with severe behavioral and mental health problems. She has been the Principal Investigator on 6 randomized trials examining the efficacy of MTFC.
David S. DeGarmo, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. DeGarmo’s investigates how families adjust to stressful life events and harsh and socially disadvantaged contexts. A majority of his research has focused on how parents and children adjust to divorce and remarriage following divorce, and how parent-training interventions can promote health adjustment for these families. A substantive focus is on social interactional processes within the family and between family members and their social networks. More broadly, his theoretical interests are the linkages between individual and contextual moderators of behavior including social support, role-identities, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
J. Mark Eddy, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. J. Mark Eddy is the principal investigator on several randomized prevention trials of programs delivered within systems of care relevant to children and families. The Parent Child Study, a randomized trial of parent management training with incarcerated parents within adult corrections. The Paths Project, a study of the transition into young adulthood for youth who were heavily involved with the juvenile justice system and who participated in a randomized trial of multidimensional treatment foster care. And the Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers Project, a study of the transitions into young adulthood for participants in a randomized multi-modal school-based prevention intervention program that began during elementary school.
Philip Fisher, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Fisher is particularly interested in prevention research in the early years of life, on the effects of early stress on the developing brain, and on the plasticity of neural systems in response to environmental interventions. Dr. Fisher is Principal Investigator on projects funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and the National Institute on Child Health and Development (NICHD) involving young children in the child welfare systems. He is the developer of the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Program for Preschoolers (MTFC-P).
Marion S. Forgatch, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Forgatch has been working with the OSLC group for more than 30 years. She and her colleagues have developed and evaluated two efficacious intervention programs for families with youngsters at risk for adjustment problems and substance abuse. The Oregon Divorce Study for single mothers and Marriage and Parenting in Stepfamilies for stepfamilies were supported with funds from NIMH and are each based on the OSLC model of Parent Management Training (PMTO).
Hyoun K. Kim, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Kim received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and has been working at OSLC since 1999. Her primary research interests include individual, social and contextual influences on the development of psychopathology from adolescence through early adulthood, including depression and other related co-morbid problem behaviors. More specifically, she has been studying longitudinal trajectories of depressive symptoms and comorbidity in young men.
Leslie Leve, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Leve’s research interests are in the area of developmental psychopathology, with an emphasis on understanding how family factors, peer influences, gender, and genetic influences combine to influence developmental outcomes. Specifically, one focus of her research is on understanding risk, developmental processes, and outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. She is an investigator on several randomized clinical trials examining the efficacy of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) in foster care and juvenile justice girls. Gender-specific risks, processes, and intervention outcomes are a primary focus of this work.
Charles Martinez, Jr., Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. is a clinical psychologist and research scientist at the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, Oregon and directs the OSLC Latino Research Team. He is the principal investigator on National Institutes of Health research projects designed to examine risk and protective factors involved in linking acculturation to behavioral health outcomes for Latino families and to develop and test culturally specific interventions for Latino families with youngsters at risk of behavioral health problems.
Gerald R. Patterson, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Gerald R. Patterson, Ph.D., co-founder of the Oregon Social Learning Center and Senior Scientist, works on research projects relevant to both basic science and practical application. He is interested in understanding the interactional processes that are set in motion when parent management training is used to treat families, including the feedback loops that are created, and what sequences are required for children and families to change. He is also interested in the prevention of the development of antisocial behavior. He is particularly known for his pioneering work on intervention and the contribution of coercive family processes to child behavior problems.
Katherine C. Pears, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Pears’ research interests broadly include examining a number of predictors of later behavioral and social problems in early childhood with the goal of using this information to develop preventive interventions. More specifically, she is interested in the development of children’s understanding of the emotions and intentions of others and how this is affected by parenting and children’s early experiences, and how, in turn, children’s social and emotional understanding affect the development of later problem behaviors.
John B. Reid, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. John B. Reid, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and co-founder of the Oregon Social Learning Center, has focused his work on both assessment methodology and the treatment of child abusive families and conduct disorder. He is the author of numerous journal articles and editor and author of several books, including Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Analysis and Model for Intervention, Antisocial Boys, Observation in Home Settings, and Families with Aggressive Children.
Joann Wu Shortt, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dr. Shortt received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on development that occurs within the context of family and peer relationships including couples relationships, emotion regulation and emotional development (affective and physiological processes), risk and protective factors, developmental trajectories and outcomes for children growing up in the same family, and gender differences in adolescent development. She built a psychophysiological lab at OSLC to observe physiological regulation during dyadic interaction.
Dana K. Smith, Ph.D.Send an e-mail. Dana K. Smith, Ph.D., is a research scientist on the Trauma and Delinquency (OSLC Community Programs) and Middle School Success grants. She began her employment at the Oregon Social Learning Center in 1993 as a research assistant on the LIFT project. She began work on the Girls and Girls II grants in 1996, where her work focused on prevention and intervention with adolescent female delinquent populations. She also works as a research scientist and clinician through the OSLC Community Programs on the Young Women in Transition (WIT) project, which is aimed at developing and implementing an intervention to assist adolescent female youths who are referred from the juvenile justice system in managing the transition from out-of-home care back to the community.
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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.
Former ScientistsRolf Loeber, Ph.D. Beverly I. Fagot, Ph.D. Thomas J. Dishion, Ph.D. Kate Kavanagh, Ph.D. Mike Stoolmiller, Ph.D.
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