Faculty News

In a new approach to this multi-faceted and seemingly intractable problem, Most is partnering with Dr. Sandra Hassink, director of the Pediatric Weight Management Clinic at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children; Meredith Lutz Stehl, a clinical psychologist at the hospital; and James Hoffman and Robert Simons, professors in UD's Department of Psychology. Their collaborative research is aimed at assessing whether individuals struggling with weight management exhibit characteristic neuro-cognitive indices related to attentional control and self-control.

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Mary Dozier and Johanna Bick will be giving a talk entitled, “Designing early interventions for high risk mother-child dyads: Behavioral and neuro- hormonal mechanisms.”

Dozier, who is conducting a five-year study of the effectiveness of intervention, said her 15-year study of development of young children in foster care and children who are maltreated but remain with birth parents showed that children often adapt in ways that help them cope, but those adaptations can have problematic consequences for relationships.

Professor Carroll Izard’s “Emotion Course” trains teachers to use puppets and story-telling to help Head Start youngsters learn from emotional experiences. Now, Izard and his team of researchers are adding new components to the groundbreaking program.

In a challenging economic environment that has seen programs across the country eliminated and funding from all sources declining, the Psychology Department has shown a positive trend in external funding. In fact, between 2000 and 2004, total funding tripled; it has remained steady over the last four years.