Research and Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Child and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioural Problems
  • Family interactions and communication patterns
  • Juvenile Sexual Offending
  • Childhood Sexual Experiences
  • Normative sexual development, including sexual attitudes and behaviors and parent-child sexual communication
  • Homelessness
  • Family Therapy
  • Multisystemic Therapy
  • Domestic Violence
  • Acculturation experiences of non-visible minorities

Teaching Interests

  • Family Psychology
  • Psychology of Crime
  • Psychotherapy
  • Research Methods
  • Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Development