Clinical Psychology

Judith Morgan

		Graduate Student  -  Primary Advisor: Carroll Izard Research Interests   jkmorgan@psych.udel.edu Office: 181 McKinly Hall (302) 831-2700 (302) 831-3645 -fax Preferred contact method - email

Research Interests

Emotion competence, parental emotion socialization, preventive interventions

Research Summary:

I am currently a 5th year in the Clinical Science program working with Dr. Carroll Izard at the University of Delaware. As part of the Human Emotions lab, we study emotion development with a Head Start preschool population. We are currently running an intervention project evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of the Emotions Course (EC), an emotion based intervention program designed by our lab for preschool aged children.

My research interests involve examining the relation of parenting factors to children’s emotion regulation and their abilities to get along with other children. I also am interested in how children’s emotion regulation abilities affect their internalizing behaviors and their ability to use their emotions adaptively.

For my first year project, I examined the relation between family emotion expressiveness, emotion knowledge, and emotion regulation in preschool aged children. For my masters’ thesis, I studied how emotion coaching and physical punishment relate to adaptive and maladaptive behavior problems in toddlers and preschoolers. I also examined how the perception of physical punishment affected the relation between these parenting practices and children’s behavior.

For my practicum experience in my 3rd and 4th years of the program, I worked at Terry Children’s Psychiatric Center and the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Child and Family Therapy Clinic. I am very excited to begin my 5th year practicum at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Regional Center of Autism.

Recent Publications

Izard, C. E., King, K. A., Trentacosta, C. J., Morgan, J. K., Laurenceau, J., Krauthamer-Ewing, E. S., & Finlon, K. (2008). Accelerating the development of emotion competence in Head Start children: Effects on adaptive and maladaptive behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 369-397.

Morgan, J.K., Krauthamer-Ewing, S., Finlon, K. J., Schultz, D. & Izard, C.E. (2008). Relation of physical punishment to children’s aggressive behavior: Evidence for moderating effects. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Morgan, J.K., Izard, C.E., & King, K.A. (2008). Construct validity of the Emotion Matching Task: Evidence for convergent and criterion validity of a new emotion knowledge task. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Izard, C.E., Trentacosta, C.J., King, K.A., Morgan, J.K., and Diaz, M. (2007). Emotions, emotionality, and intelligence in the development of adaptive behavior. In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner, and R. Roberts, Eds. Science of Emotional Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. Oxford University Press.

King, K.A., Izard, C. E., Morgan, J. K., Finlon, K. J., Krauthamer-Ewing, S., & Diaz, M. (2007, March). Increasing Emotion Competence in Head Start Preschoolers. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.

Krauthamer-Ewing, E.S., Izard, C.E., King, K.A., Morgan, J.K., Finlon, K.J., Diaz, M. (2007, March). Relationships between urban Head Start mothers' understanding of emotions, parenting dimensions, and children's emotion knowledge. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.

Morgan, J.K. & Izard, C.E. (2006, June). The relation of family emotion expressiveness to emotion knowledge and emotion regulation in young children. Poster presented at the Head Start National Conference

King, K.A. & Morgan, J.K. (2005, October). Promoting Emotion Competence in Preschoolers. Presented at the Delaware Association for the Education of Young Children, Newark, Delaware.

Morgan, J. K. (2004, April).The Impact of Emotion Knowledge on Social Competence in Preschool Aged Children. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Development, Washington, D. C.

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