Ongoing Research Projects/Areas of Interest:
Improving Engagement to the CDC’s Essential for Parenting Program
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Essentials for Parenting program (EFPP) is an evidence-based, publicly available, online, self-directed, behavioral parent training program. Despite its strengths, EFPP is underutilized and engagement is often poor. Funded through a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and in collaboration with our colleagues from NYU School of Medicine, Westat, we are evaluating whether embedding motivational and gamification approaches into EFPP will result in improved utilization and engagement.
Working Memory Behavioral ADHD Treatment (WoMBAT)
WoMBAT is a National Institute of Mental Health funded study, in collaboration with colleagues at Florida State University, to evaluate the singular, combined and sequenced effects of a working memory training intervention and behavioral parent training for school-age children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Family Engagement in the Path Program
Path is an inclusion model in New York City Public Schools that creates new paths to success for students who can benefit from focused emotional and behavioral support, specifically those who have the potential to be classified as having emotional disabilities. The FACES lab in collaboration with Path is focused on determining approaches to engagement and providing support for families of children enrolled in Path. Activity includes needs assessment, development of family support and evaluation of family outcomes.
Increasing Initiation and Engagement to Online Behavioral Parenting Interventions
Online Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) interventions are accessible and available but parents often have difficulty initiating and engaging in these interventions. The study, funded through a NYU Mega Grants Initiative Fund, attempts to 1) understand the barriers and facilitators that parents experience through interviews and 2) translate knowledge from these interviews into behavioral economic enhancement (i.e., nudges) to help support parent initiation and engagement to BPT