Oregon Social Learning Center

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Early Career Researchers

Names are listed alphabetically.

Jean Kjellstrand, Ph.D.

Send an e-mail. Jean Kjellstrand, M.S.W., Ph.D., joined the Oregon Social Learning Center in 2009.  Dr. Kjellstrand recently completed her doctorate in social work where she focused on positive youth development and the prevention of problem behavior in children and adolescents, focusing specifically on longitudinal outcomes for children with incarcerated parents.

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Heather McClure, Ph.D.

Send an e-mail. Dr. McClure is a research associate with the Latino Research Team at OSLC and also with the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon.  Since 1996, she has been involved with community-based participatory research projects focused on human rights, health, social networks, and artistic and cultural practices in Guatemala and within Latino communities in the U.S.

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Kimberly Rhoades, Ph.D.

Send an e-mail. Kimberly Rhoades joined OSLC in 2009 after completing her doctorate in social/health psychology at Stony Brook University. While at Stony Brook, Kimberly worked on a treatment development project aimed at developing a parent management training program for mothers who reported high levels of anger and whose children displayed clinical levels of conduct problems.

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Lisa Saldana, Ph.D.

Send an e-mail. Lisa Saldana joined OSLC in 2007. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, in 2003 with a research and clinical emphasis in child maltreatment and evidence-based practice. Lisa is working on the development of preventive interventions to address the needs of families involved in the child welfare system, with cases complicated by substance abuse. She has been active in the evaluation and implementation of evidence-based practices. Lisa currently is the PI on a NIDA funded Career Development award to develop an integrative treatment for maternal substance abuse and child neglect, and is working on NIH funded research grants focusing in the economic evaluation of MTFC, on the dissemination of the KEEP foster parent training group to prevent placement disruptions in foster children, and in a large-scale trial evaluating “what it takes” to implement an evidence-based practice (MTFC) in communities with barriers to implementation.

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Mark Van Ryzin, Ph.D.

Send an e-mail.Mark J. Van Ryzin was awarded a PhD in Educational Psychology by the University of Minnesota in 2008. His primary research interests are social, motivational, and developmental processes in adolescence, particularly in the educational context. He is especially interested in non-traditional school environments and their potential to address the diverse range of student needs and interests that are found among today’s youth. His work is influenced by ideas from developmental psychology, positive youth development, mentoring, and attachment theory.

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