Clinical Psychology

Joanna Herres

		Graduate Student  -  Primary Advisor: Roger Kobak Research Interests   joannaherres@psych.udel.edu Office: 012 A McKinly Hall (302) 831-1692 (302) 831-3645 -fax Preferred contact method - email

Research Interests

I am a first year clinical student working under the advisement of Roger Kobak and Brian Ackerman.  Our research is with the Parent-Teen Project, an ongoing NIMH-funded study that investigates the development of psychopathology among parents and adolescents in a low income sample.  My particular interests are in the relationship between academic achievement and adjustment.  For my first year project, I am investigating the developmental trajectories of disadvantaged children from the start of middle childhood, when the child first enters school, through early adolescence.   I am also examining the diversity found among our disadvantaged sample.  For example, I am interested in how income poverty and cofactors of poverty such as parent maladjustment (i.e. criminal activity and parent psychopathology) affect the child differently. In addition, I am assisting with data collection for a separate, but related project investigating student and classroom factors associated with achievement growth in late elementary school.

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