Developmental Transition Areas
· Infant Mental Health
· Impact of Foster Care
· LIFHE Project
· Psychosocial Maturation in Adolescence
· Others
Project Descriptions
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MPSI Faculty:
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Peter Lichtenberg (Principal Investigator) & John Hannigan
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IOG Faculty:
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Cathy Lysack, Marc Kruman
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Collaborators:
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Virginia Delaney-Black (Pediatrics); Lisa Chiodo (Nursing)
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Funding:
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Wayne State University
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Term:
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2009 – 2011
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Summary:
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Developmental grant to establish inter-generational research program and begin preliminary study of the grandparents raising their grandchildren, assessing the multidisciplinary impact on their relationships, and on the health and well-being of both.
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Promoting Permanence and Well-Being for Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care: The Role of Placement Decisions and Childrearing Environment
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MPSI Faculty:
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Ann M. Stacks
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Collaborator:
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Ty Partridge (Psychology); Debra Jozefowicz-Simbini (Social Work)
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Students:
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Veronica Dinaj & Nick Bergeron (Psychology); Rebecca Wiersma (Social Work)
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Funding:
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University Research Grant Program
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Grant funding 2007-2008; data analysis ongoing
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Summary:
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Data are currently being analyzed for two papers that are in progress and one paper is under review. Three students are using the dataset for thesis and dissertation projects and meet weekly.Using the National Surevey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being database (NSCAW) we are working on a series of papers will examine 1) differences in child developmental risk status, home and neighborhood environments and the duration of time in placement between infants placed in kinship or foster homes prior to their first birthday; 2) changes in language, social-emotional, and cognitive functioning 1-year after a substantiated case of abuse among infants and toddlers placed in foster care, kinship care, and in-home care; 3) family and environmental factors that moderate the trajectory of infant and toddler cognitive, language, and social emotional development; 4) Intergenerational transmission of abuse; 4) factors that promote resilience in young adults formerly in the foster care system. NSCAW is a natioanl longitudinal study of the well-being of 5,501 children under the age of 14 entering the child protective system. Children were followed for up to 97 months.
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Relationships in Home Visitation to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect
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MPSI Faculty:
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Ann M. Stacks (PI)
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Collaborator:
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Ty Partridge (Psychology)
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Students:
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Samanthia Zolnoski, Amy Kohl, Nick Bergeron, Tina Dykehouse, Sarah Culpepper, Melina Custovic, Angela Cruice, Danielle Davey, Alisha Webbs, Brigete Webb
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Funding: Children’s Research Center
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Term:
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2008-2010
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Summary:
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The overall purpose of this project is to investigate whether a hospital based, home visiting early intervention program for reducing families risk for child abuse and neglect is more effective than the minimum standard of care that families typically receive at pediatric visits. We are interested in understanding whether a multi-disciplinary home visiting team, including a nurse practitioner, social worker, domestic violence advocate and parent educator, is effective at improving the following factors that are related to child abuse and neglect: 1) parent outcomes, including parent mental health, parent use of non-physical discipline, parents’ attitudes about discipline and parents’ knowledge of child development; 2) child outcomes, including child health and development; and 3) the home environment, including child safety and the home learning environment.
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Teens at Risk: Prenatal Cocaine and Postnatal Challenges
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MPSI Faculty:
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John Hannigan & Steve Ondersma (Key Investigators)
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Collaborators:
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Virginia Delaney-Black, M.D. (Principal Investigator; Pediatrics)
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Funding:
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NIDA - DA022419-01
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Term:
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2008 – 2013
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Summary:
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This longitudinal multidisciplinary project is assessing the impact of prenatal cocaine and alcohol exposure, as well as family and community risk factors, on at-risk behaviors – including substance use/abuse and sexual behavior – in older adolescents and young adults. Wide-ranging measures of neurobehavioral outcome, physiological responses to stressors, and social-emotional regulation are also integral to this project.
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Translating Child-Parent Psychotherapy into the Juvenile Court System
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MPSI Faculty:
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Ann M. Stacks (Wayne County Research Coordinator)
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Collaborator:
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Jenifer Goldman Fraser (PI, Research Triangle Institute); Lynne Katz (PI, Linda Ray Intervention Center at the University of Miami); Cecilia Casanueva (PI, Research Triangle Institute), Anne Hogan (, Tallahassee Research Coordinator, Florida State University); Joy Osofsky (Consultant), Judge Cindy Lederman (Consultant)
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Community Collaborators:
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Wayne County Department of Human Services; Wayne County Community Mental Health; Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health; 3rd Judicial Circuit Court, Probate Division, Wayne County
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Funding:
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National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1R18CE001714-01)
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Term:
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2009-2012
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Summary:
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This translational research project has three key goals: (1) To provide training/technical assistance for dissemination of the Miami ‘baby court’ model in two new community settings: Detroit, Michigan, and Tallahassee, Florida; (2) To conduct research on the processes and outcomes associated with implementation of the model; and (3) To support the development of a “best practices tool-kit” to guide future dissemination of the model. The Miami ‘baby court’ (referred to as the Infant Mental Health-Court Team Program) centers on the juvenile court system as the platform for assuring timely referrals to child-parent psychotherapy, monitoring treatment, and ensuring that the child’s emotional well-being is at the center of judicial decision-making and permanency planning. Child-parent psychotherapy is an evidence-based intervention found to improve the mental health and the implementation arm of the study will collect: (a) interview data on adoption and implementation processes from the local court team members and other community stakeholders at the dissemination sites, (b) interview data on maintenance and sustainability of the model at the originating Miami site, (c) development of court and clinical observational fidelity tools, (d) documentation of implementation activities, and (e) in-depth interviews with a subset of mothers who complete child-parent psychotherapy on satisfaction with treatment and the facilitators/barriers to engagement in treatment. The outcome arm of the study will examine the relationship between implementation and the effectiveness of the model. Data to be collected includes mother/child assessment of child development and behavioral health, maternal depression and stress, mother-child interaction, and archival court and child record review of maltreatment recurrence, injuries, and permanency behavioral outcomes of infants and toddlers exposed to maltreatment. The Miamimodel grew out of a pioneering multidisciplinary partnership between the judiciary and clinical experts in infant mental health: Judge Cindy Lederman; Dr. Joy Osofsky, an expert on trauma in early childhood and infant mental health intervention with very young children; and Dr. Lynne Katz, Director of the Linda Ray Intervention Center at the University of Miami.
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More information about MPSI faculty and their current research can be found at MPSI Faculty.
MPSI is part of the Wayne State University Division of Research.