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Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Office
228 Wolf Hall
(302) 831-2385
Opening(s) available for grad students. Please contact Brian P. Ackerman at bpa@psych.udel.edu
Brian P. Ackerman
Poverty and Developmental Risks
I have been following a group of disadvantaged children from preschool to high school in collaboration with Dr. Carroll Izard and Dr. Roger Kobak. My immediate interests in this project concern the effects of economic disadvantage and its correlates on the emotional, social, and behavioral outcomes of children. My larger interests concern the effects of environmental risk factors on developmental processes and trajectories.
Recent Publications
Ackerman, B.P ., Kobak, R., & Smith, C. (2008). Diversity in the School Problems of Economically Disadvantaged Adolescents: Dual Pathways of Reading and Externalizing Problems. Social Development.
Ackerman, B.P. , & Brown, E. (2008). Physical and psychosocial turmoil in the home and cognitive development. In G. Evans & T. Wachs (Ed.), Chaos and children’s development: Levels of analysis and mechanisms. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Ackerman, B.P. , Izard, C.E., Kobak, R., Brown, E.D., & Smith, C. (2007). The longitudinal relation between reading problems and internalizing behavior in school for preadolescent children from economically disadvantaged families. Child Development, 78, 581-596.
Ackerman, B.P. , & Brown, E.D. (2006). Income poverty, poverty co-factors, and the adjustment of children in school. In R.V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior, Vol 34 (pp. 91-129). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Ackerman, B. P. , Brown, E. D., & Izard, C. E. (2004). The relations between contextual risk, earned income, and the school adjustment of children from economically disadvantaged families. Developmental Psychology, 40, 204-216.
