Publications, Presentations, and Graduate Student Projects

Student Papers

Joan Driscoll (2008, PhD dissertation). Is what young mothers do more important than how they feel? An exploration of relationships among maternal depressive symptoms, maternal-child emotional availability and child persistence.

Karen Craddock (2007, PhD Dissertation). Mother to mother: Profiles of psychological resistance in young Black mothers and models of mother involvement in the relationship with their mothers.

Jana Chaudhuri (2006, PhD dissertation). Parenting styles and socialization goals of young mothers: The role of cultural context.

Jessica Goldberg (2006, PhD dissertation). More than simply "non-compliance": An investigation of missed visits in a home visiting program for young parents.

Kelly Agnese (2006, MA thesis). Does receipt of public assistance affect the educational attainment of young mothers in the Healthy Families Massachusetts program?

Pialee Roy (2006, MA thesis). Grandmother program involvement in Healthy Families Massachusetts: A study of the home visitor perceptions of extended family involvement in a teen parent support program.

Shireen Boulos Riley (2005, PhD dissertation). Understanding the developmental pathways of successful teenage mothers.

Chris Graham-Rawlings (2003, PhD Dissertation). Family support within a cultural context: An ethnographic study of consonance and dissonance in the parenting and help-seeking ethnotheories of program providers and their clients.

Rebecca Redington (2003, MA thesis). The relation of young mothers' perceptions of grandmother support in early childhood and adolescence to their interactions with their infants.

Carisa Olivo (1998, MA thesis). What do teen mothers want? Including the client voice in the evaluation of Healthy Families Massachusetts.

Dean Elson (1998, MA thesis). Adolescent fatherhood and developmental identity: And exploratory study of the perceptions and experiences of young fathers.

Grants

Claudia Miranda. (2008-2010). Posttraumatic stress and parental functioning in a sample of adolescent mothers. Pre-dissertation grant awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.