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Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering
 
Name: Ellen E. Pinderhughes
Title: Associate Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Child Development Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Yale University, 1986; MA Yale University, 1982; BS University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1976
Expertise: contextual and cultural influences on family socialization processes among families with children at risk for problematic outcomes; adoption and foster care;
Major Awards: William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar Award, 1996-2001
E-mail: ellen.pinderhughes@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Click here to download Ellen Pinderhughes's CV.

PI, Adoption and Development Project: Study of Chinese girls' understanding of adoption, identity and cultural differences and parents childrearing experiences.

PI, Multisite Prevention of Adolescent Conduct Problems (Fast Track), currently funded through NIMH

Child and family readjustment processes following placement of older children in adoptive and foster families

Selected recent publications:

Pinderhughes, E.E., Jones Harden, B., & Schweder, A.E. (in press). Children in Foster Care, in D. Phillips, L. Aber, L. Allen, S. Jones (Eds.) Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action. American Psychological Association, Wash. D.C.

Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (E. E. Pinderhughes, Member)*. (in press). The Fast Track experiment: Translating the developmental model into a prevention design. In K.A. Dodge & J.B. Kupersmidt (Eds.), Children's peer relations: A Festschrift for John D. Coie. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Brodzinsky, D. M. & Pinderhughes, E. E. (2002) Parenting and child development in adoptive families. In M. Bornstein (Ed). Handbook of Parenting, 2nd Edition, Vol. 1, 279-312.

Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (E.E. Pinderhughes, Member)*. (2002). Using the Fast Track randomized prevention trial to test the early-starter model of the development of serious conduct problems. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 925-943.

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