She completed an internship in child clinical / pediatric psychology at Children's National Medical Center, and a
fellowship in pediatric psychology at Brown Medical School before joining the faculty in 1998.
She completed an internship in child clinical psychology at the Franciscan Hospital for Children, and a fellowship
in pediatric psychology at Brown Medical School in 2010.
She completed a postdoctoral fellowship
in pediatric psychology in the Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Clinical Psychology Training Consortium.
Longitudinal data collection is becoming more
common in pediatric psychology (Holmbeck, Bruno, & Jandasek, 2006), but we know little about which measures can be used repeatedly across developmental periods.
This approach, which was primarily developed by Sheila Eyberg in the early 1970s while she completed her postdoctoral
residency in pediatric psychology, is grounded in social learning theory and attachment theory.
With this new program,
trainees in pediatric psychology have the opportunity to critically evaluate a published JPP article and author an accompanying commentary.
Given the intense focus on the second decade of life both in the media and in the scientific journals and academic societies, it seemed an opportune time to highlight recent empirical work on
adolescents in pediatric psychology.
A number of studies that focus on
resilience in pediatric psychology provide descriptive models for further expanding this area of study (Cousins, Cohen, & Venable, 2015; Kalapurakkel, Carpino, Lebel, & Simons, 2015).