Daily stress processes; adult development; family factors in mental health; work and family linkages; fatherhood; statistical techniques for measuring change.
Associate teaching professor of social work
Field education director, World Campus Master of Social Work program
Summary Statement
James Andrews is responsible for field education in Human Development and Family Studies and the World Campus Master of Social Work program. He also teaches courses in ethics, clinical practice and policy.
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Karl R. and Diane Wendle Fink Early Career Professor for the Study of Families
Summary Statement
Sunhye Bai researches daily family processes that shape adolescent development, with a focus on family-based risk and protective factors for youth internalizing problems.
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Professor-in-Charge, Undergraduate Programs
Summary Statement
Bo Cleveland studies individual differences in substance use and misuse as well as how individuals’ characteristics modify the impact of experiences on substance use and addictive behaviors. His work focuses on person-context and person-experience interactions.
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and Public Policy
Director of the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
Summary Statement
Max Crowley is a prevention scientist investigating how to optimize investments in healthy development—with a focus on preventive strategies to reduce substance misuse and delinquent behavior.
Research Professor, Director of the Program for Translational Research on Adversity and Neurodevelopment, and President of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Associate Director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
Summary Statement
Research interests include family systems processes underlying adolescent development (substance use, problem behavior, emotional distress, positive well-being) and understanding change processes in family-centered preventive interventions.
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Summary Statement
Steffany Fredman researches the interpersonal context of mental health (PTSD and related conditions), couples’ adaptation to stress, and couple-based interventions to enhance individual, couple, and family well-being.
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Professor-in-Charge, Graduate Program
Co-Director, Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition (CBBC)
Assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development
Summary Statement
Jones' work addresses the syndemic of substance use disorders, violence, sexual risk behaviors, and HIV/STIs, as well as evaluation of structural and behavioral interventions aimed at reducing substance use and associated harms.
Lynn Martire’s research aims to identify the ways in which close relationships in adulthood affect health and chronic illness management, and the effects of chronic illness on close relationships. Dr. Martire teaches HDFS 418 and 546 (Family Relationships).
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Director, Center for Safe and Healthy Children
Ken Young Family Professor for Healthy Children
Principal Investigator NICHD P50 Capstone Center for Healthy Children
Summary Statement
Jennie Noll studies the bio-psycho-social consequences of child maltreatment including sexual abuse, the biological embedding of early-life stress, cognitive development of stress-exposed populations, pathways to teen pregnancy for females exposed to trauma, and more.
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
ICDS Faculty Co-Hire
Summary Statement
Zita Oravecz's research work has been focused on developing and disseminating innovative computational and statistical techniques for addressing questions related to emotional and cognitive functioning and development.
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Summary Statement
Dr. Rulison's work focuses on how peer networks shape substance use and related health-risk behaviors and how program developers can build more potent interventions and promote the diffusion of intervention effects.
Assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Summary Statement
Dr. Tornello has three major research interests: Family, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The majority her work has focused on the role of family composition and parental sexual orientation and gender in the family system.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
119 Health and Human Development Building
University Park, PA 16802
