2005-2006 Child Study Center Speaker Series

April 13, 2006
Dr. Daphne Bugental
Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: Predicting and Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Bio-Cognitive Approach
March 16, 2006
Dr. Lynn Fainsilber Katz
Research Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Washington

Title: Domestic Violence, Stress Reactivity and Child Adjustment
February 9, 2006
Dr. Robert Stevens
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
Department of Educational and School Psychology
and Special Education, Penn State University

Title: Effective Primary Grade Reading Instruction: Putting Research into Practice
January 19, 2006
Dr. Kathleen Thomas
McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor
Institute of Child Development
University of Minnesota

Title: Implicit Learning in Childhood: Perspectives from Behavioral, Neuroimaging, and Lesion Studies
December 1, 2005
Dr. Jeffrey Lorberbaum
Staff Physician, Child Psychiatry
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center,
Penn State University

Title: Regional Brain Activity in Parents Listening to Infant Cries

November 2, 2005
Dr. David Olds
Professor of Pediatrics and Director,
Prevention Research Center for
Family and Child Health,
University of Colorado Health Science Center

Title: "Randomized controlled trial to compare nurses and paraprofessionals as home visitors for low-income pregnant women and parents of young children"

Nittany Lion Inn, Alumni Lounge
Reception to follow
Co-sponsored by the Prevention Research Center

AND The Prevention Research Center also invites you to:

November 3, 2005
Dr. David Olds
Prevention Research Center's Bennett Lectureship
Title: "The Nurse-Family Partnership: From Trials to Practice"
The Living Center, 110 Henderson
October 13-14, 2005
The College of Liberal Arts, the College of Health and Human Development, and the Population Research Institute's 13th Annual Symposium on Family Issues.
"Early Disparities in School Readiness: How do Families Contribute to Successful and Unsuccessful Transitions into School?"
September 22, 2005
Child Study Center 2005 Lois Bloom Lecture
Dr. Joseph Campos
Professor of Psychology,
University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Explaining Developmental Transition in Infancy." View Abstract

The Child Study Center at Penn State