I am a developmental psychologist with primary interests in a) mediators and moderators of the association of family relationships with child/adolescent health and self-regulation, and b) studying ways to reduce regulation and health problems in adolescents from high-conflict families. My goal is to conduct process-oriented, methodologically rigorous work that addresses the complexity and multidimensionality of family relationships and regulation. My past work has focused on exposure to interparental conflict as a risk factor for emotional, attentional, and physiological regulation and, as a result, health. In current and future work, I am exploring mindfulness as a buffer of the effects of family stress on adolescent outcomes, and developing mind-body interventions to improve youth regulatory and health outcomes. An important focus of this work is create and testing a supplement to an evidence-based mindfulness intervention for adolescents that uses technology to help teens bridge the skills learned in the group intervention into real life (i.e., an ecological momentary intervention). I am currently recruiting doctoral students to work on this work, funded by the National Institutes of Health
