Graduates of the program have the knowledge and skills to conduct research and work in jobs focused on child, family, and school well-being, particularly in inner-city, lower-income, and cultural minority and cross-cultural contexts. Graduates have taken positions teaching and conducting research at universities, analyzing public policy, working in hospital settings conducting evaluations of infants, toddlers and children as well as designing interventions for children and their families.
Jobs Held by ADP Graduates
Graduates of the program have the knowledge and skills to conduct research and work in jobs focused on child, family, and school well-being, particularly in inner-city, lower-income, and cultural minority and cross-cultural contexts. Graduates have taken positions teaching and conducting research at universities, analyzing public policy, working in hospital settings conducting evaluations of infants, toddlers and children as well as designing interventions for children and their families.
Recent Graduates:
- Kelly Sheperd (2011): Postdoctoral fellow at the Kennedy Krieger Institute Center for Autism and Related Disorders, REACH Research Program
- Lisa Carter Beall (2011): Assessment coordinator, Office of Undergraduate Education, UMBC
- Catherine Lee (2011): Advanced professional school counselor with Anne Arundel Public Schools
- Stacy Buckingham Howes (2011): Postdoctoral fellow and research coordinator, University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Growth and Nutrition Division in Pediatrics
- Anna Quigg (2010): Postdoctoral fellow at University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Growth and Nutrition Division in Pediatrics
- Colleen Sullivan McMullin (2010): Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s College of Maine
- Patricia Tenowich O’Malley (2009): Educational Data Specialist, Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Adia Garrett (2008): Lecturer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Melissa O’Connell (2007): Developmental Psychologist, Developmental Evaluation Clinic at Rady Children’s Hospital (San Diego)
- Joy Kolb (2007): Assistant Clinical Director, Keystone Behavioral Pediatrics, Jacksonville, FL
- Adrianna Amari (2005): Research Scientist, Department of Behavioral Pediatrics, Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Margo Candelaria (2005): Faculty Instructor, University of Maryland, Baltimore Department of Pediatrics, Growth and Nutrition Division; Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division
- Brenda Haynes (2005): School Administrator
- Linda Gorham (2004): Educational Program Evaluation
- Hemalatha Ganapathy (2004): Associate Professor, Indiana State University
- Huang Keng-Yen (2004): Assistant Professor, New York University School of Medicine
- Christine Reiner Hess (2002): Licensed Developmental Psychologist, University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology & Research Developmental Psychologist, Kennedy Krieger Institute Center for Autism and Related Disorders, REACH Research Program
- Kimberly Lohrfink (2002): Senior Research Associate, Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
- Amie Ashley Hane (2002): Assistant Professor, Williams College
Recent Dissertations
The students with asterisks after their names have prepared summaries of their studies that can be accessed by clicking on the title of the dissertation.
- Kelly Sheperd (2011)* Cognitive and Behavioral Functioning Among Children Prenatally Exposed to Substances: An Examination of Models of Risk
- Lisa Carter Beall (2011)* Implementation Intentions as a Means of Promoting Voluntary Reading Behavior
- Catherine K. Lee (2011)* The Association of Inattention and Children’s Math Development: A Longitudinal Study
- Stacy Buckingham-Howes (2011)* Prenatally Drug Exposed Adolescents’ Engagement in Externalizing and Problem Behaviors: A Longitudinal Perspective
- Anna Quigg (2010) Food Insecurity and Children’s Developmental Risk: Do Anemia and Caregiver Depression Play a Role?
- Colleen J. Sullivan (2010) Academic Self-regulation, Academic Performance, and Adjustment in College: What is the first-year experience for college students?
- Patricia Tenowich (2009) Examination of achievement goals and social goals of college students at different levels of expertise
- Angela Katenkamp (2008) The relation between parents’ involvement beliefs and behaviors and teachers’ perceptions of parents’ beliefs and behaviors.
- Selena Emond (2008) The effect of parent training on perceived school readiness
- Adia J. Garrett (2008) The role of picture perception in children’s performance on a picture vocabulary test
- Joy Kolb (2007) An online program for training parents of children with autism
- Melissa O’Connell (2007) Maternal Sensitivity in a High-Risk, African American Preterm Sample: An Ecological Approach to Predictors and Effects of Intervention
- Wendy Miller (2006) Adult Attachment, Father Involvement, and Relationship Satisfaction and Maintenance among Low-Income African-American Mothers of Premature Infants
- Adrianna Amari (2005) Ketogenic Diet Palatability: Caregiver Predictions and Actual Preferences among Children with Epilepsy
- Margo Candelaria (2005) The Impact of Psychosocial Risk on Infant Attachment
- Brenda Haynes (2005) African American Boys and School Achievement: The Role of Academic Self-Concept, Racial/Ethnic Identify Attitudes and School Satisfaction
- Hemalatha Ganapathy Coleman (2004) Cultural Conceptions of the Child: A Study of Indian American, African American and European American Ethnotheories
- Linda Gorham (2004) Relationships Between Children’s Participation in The Black Church and Their Academic Development: An Investigation of the Ecocultural, Opportunity to Learn, and Program Quality Dimensions of Church-Based Academic Support Programs
- Keng-Yen Huang (2004) The Role of Mother-Infant Conflict in Toddler’s Development of Attachment and Problem Behaviors
- Care L. Udell (2003) Early Literacy Tutoring After School: An Exploration of the Impact of a Cross-age Tutoring Program
- Yolanda C. Vauss-Berry (2003) Parents’ Educational Expectations and Practices: Hearing Parents with Hearing Impaired or Hearing Children
- Amie Ashley Hane (2002) A Dyadic Approach to the Interactional Context of Language Acquisition: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Early Mother-Infant Vocal Coordination in Predicting Language Outcomes at 24 Months
- Christine Reiner Hess (2002) Parenting competence among mothers of high-risk infants: Relations of parental self-efficacy and parent knowledge of child development
- Hibist Astatke (2001) HIV-Hazardous Behaviors among Adolescents in Nazareth, Ethiopia
- Susan M. Hill (2001) Epistemological Development of Urban Elementary School Students
- Betty Rigney (2001) The Relationship between Religiousness, Social Support, Readiness for Behavior Change and Continued Substance Abuse in Mothers who have used Illegal Drugs during Pregnancy
- Kathleen J. Rogers-Senuta (2000) Constructing Formal Education’s Meaning and Value by a Group of Low SES, Urban, African-American Women: An Iterative and Integrative Process
- Diane C. Schmidt (2000) Fear of School Violence in Middle School Students
- Laureen Teti (2000) Boundary Disturbances in Low-Income, African American Mother-Daughter Relationships
Recent Master’s Theses
- Joy A. Thompson (2011)* Full-day kindergarten and later reading: The role of early reading skills
- Manica F. Ramos (2011)* The development of the Communication Questionnaire: Measuring Hispanic parents’ perception of communication barriers with teachers
- Kathryn Bohner (2010)* Impacts of biology and environment on preschoolers’ attention regulation
- Madiha Tahseen (2009)* The acculturation, psychological functioning and parenting of immigrant Chinese mothers of young children: A multidimensional approach to acculturation
- Sevgi Bayram-Ozdemir (2009)* Turkish mothers’ emotions, attributions, strategies, and goals in response to aggressive and socially withdrawn behaviors
- Christy Y. Y. Leung (2009) Kinship Networks And Social Support In The Authoritarian Parenting Style And Children’s Maladaptive Social Behaviors Of Chinese Immigrants
- Archana Ambike(2008) Development of a Questionnaire Assessing Teacher Attitudes about Social and Emotional Learning
- Laura Ann Scaletti (2008) Infant Temperament And Maternal Sensitivity: Predictors Of Behavior Problems In Two Year Olds
- Kelly A. Sheperd (2008) Determinants of parenting among Aboriginal and European Canadian Young Mothers
- Maria Yasmine Finger (2007) Kindergarten children’s oral narrative production: Relations with ethnicity and socioeconomic status
- Lisa Beall (2007) Relations Between Instructional Practices, Reading Comprehension, and Reading Motivation
- Rose Belanger (2007) Postpartum Mother-Infant Separation: Maternal Depression and Maternal Sensitivity in a Preterm Sample
- Stacy Buckingham-Howes (2007) Gender Responsive Therapy for Adolescent Girls Who Abuse Substances: Understanding Loss of Voice and Social/Relational Aggression
- Colleen Sullivan (2007) The Influence of Stress and Social Support on Young Canadian Mothers
- Andrea Anushko (2006) Nonliteral Language Comprehension in African American and European American Children: Who Can Bust a Grape in Fruit Fight?
- Amy Benson (2006) Ethnicity, Socioeconomic, and Gender Differences in Second Graders’ Math Fact Fluency and Confidence
- Olena Prachenko (2006) Reported Parental Involvement in their Children’s Schooling: Beliefs and Practices
- Brian M. Morrison (2004) Validation of the Prenatal Report Portion of the Best Beginnings Developmental Screen
- Anna Quigg (2004) Nonconditioned Reinforcement and Punishment as Treatment for Problem Behavior
- Patricia A. Tenowich (2004) Motivation and Academic Achievement of First-Time University Students with and Without Learning Disabilities
- Anna Burns (2003) Teaching Children with Developmental Disabilities to Communicate for Preferred Items: The Role of Iconicity in Acquisition
- Margo Candelaria (2001) The Role of Parental Locus of Control in Parental Participation in Early Intervention
- Kirsten Mackler (2001) Relations between Television Viewing and Reading Achievement
- Melissa O’Connell (2001) Predictors of Maternal Sensitivity in a High-Risk Preterm Sample
- Dewi P. Smith (2001) A Multi-Method Investigation of the Nature of Co-Counterstructive Literacy Strategies of Mothers and Children
*The students with asterisks after their names have prepared summaries of their studies that can be accessed by clicking on the title of the thesis.