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Gretchen Biesecker |
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Lecturer
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Psychology Department
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Ph.D. Tufts University; B.A. Carnegie Mellon University |
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Social and emotional development; attachment, family, and peer relationships; emotion regulation; delinquency and disruptive behaviors; family support
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| E-mail: |
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gretchen.biesecker@tufts.edu
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Juvenile
Research, University of Illinois at Chicago; Project Director, East Boston Family Study; Consultation to family support and state agencies
Representative publications:
Biesecker, G., & Easterbrooks, M. A. Adolescents’ views of identity and the social world: Connections with emotion regulation and attachments to parents and peers. Manuscript under revision.
Trost, K., Biesecker, G., Stattin, H., & Kerr, M. (2007). Wanting low parental involvement in adolescence: A move toward healthy independence or a sign of problems? European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4 (3), 314-331.
Overbeek, G., Biesecker, G., Kerr, M., Stattin, H., Meeus, W., & Engels, R. C. M. E. (2006). Co-occurrence of depressive moods and delinquency in early adolescence: The role of failure expectations, manipulativeness, and social contexts. International Journal of Behavioral Development. 30 (5), 433-443.
Kerr, M., Stattin, H., Biesecker, G., & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2003). Relationships
with parents and peers in adolescence. In R. M. Lerner, M. A. Easterbrooks, & J.
Mistry (Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Vol. 6. Developmental psychology (pp.
395-419). Editor-in-Chief: I. B. Weiner. New York: Wiley.
Biesecker, G., & Bartley, S. (2002). The Massachusetts Children’s Trust Fund:
Partnerships with universities in the contexts of policy and family support. In L. K.
Simon, M. Kenny, K. Kiley-Brabeck, & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Learning to serve:
Promoting civil society through service learning (pp. 395-405). Norwell, MA:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Easterbrooks, M. A., Biesecker, G., & Lyons-Ruth, K. A. (2000). Infancy
predictors of emotional availability in middle childhood: The roles of attachment
and maternal depressive symptomatology. Attachment and Human
Development, 2 (2), 170-187.
Easterbrooks, M. A. & Biesecker, G. (1996). Aggression, attachment, and depression among school-aged children at high social risk. Understanding aggressive behavior in children: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 794, 346-347.
Needleman, H. L., Riess, J. R., Tobin, M., Biesecker, G. E., & Greenhouse, J. (1996). Bone lead levels and delinquent behavior. Journal of the American Medical Association, 275 (5), 363-369.
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