All of my courses and personal mentoring relationships with students are grounded in my intentions to teach critical thinking and scholarly writing skills. I believe that when challenged with demanding work and high expectations, students rise to levels that they never would have believed they could. Students who have the desire to learn and the willingness to work hard will find that I will give them as much as they ask of me.
Articles
Anticipatory guidance and early child development: Pediatrician advice, unmet needs, and parent behaviors (with B Holden and H Herrod), Clinical Pediatrics (2011)
Anticipatory guidance is acknowledged as an important aspect of pediatric practice, and research shows that...
Integrating neuroscience knowledge into social work education: A case-based approach (with Marcia Egan and Susan L. Neely-Barnes), Journal of Social Work Education (2011)
New knowledge from the rapidly growing field of neuroscience has important implications for our understanding...
Fathers and their infants: Caregiving and affection in the Modern family (with Lauren E. Renkert), Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (2009)
Despite social work's expressed interest in families and belief in the importance of parents to...
How big is your world? An examination of environmental Racial composition on the racial identity of African American adolescents (with John W. Miller, Jr), Race, Gender & Class (2008)
Do African-American adolescents who live in a predominantly African-American community racially identify themselves differently than...
Predictors of mothers’ use of spanking with their infants (with DS Cain), Child Abuse & Neglect (2008)
Objectives: This study describes mothers who report spanking their infants in the first 13 months...