Dr. Masten studies competence, risk, and resilience in development with a focus on the processes leading to positive adaptation and outcomes in young people whose lives are threatened by adversity.
(Sponsored by the University of Georgia)
This symposium will report on a multi-site MFT clinical research project that is a collaboration by faculty members at four accredited MFT programs.
Given evidence of health inequalities among LGBT youth, this symposium features risk/resilience theory and a representative Canadian data set to study LGBT youth/family relations.
In this symposium, three papers address the relationship between parental mental health symptoms and BMI overcoming several gaps in the literature.
Young-Hoon Ham, Susan Walker, Ellie McCann, Jodi Dworkin, Jenifer McGuire, J. Mitchell Vaterlaus, Sarah Tulane, Juyoung Jang, Heather Hessel, Jodi Dworkin Presider: Melinda Markham