My research program focuses on how children and families respond to stress and trauma as well as how community interventions can improve functioning and promote resilience. In partnership with school and community leaders, administrators, clinicians, and parents, we conduct school- and community-based intervention research.  Our work examines effectiveness, implementation, and sustainability of these interventions among underserved populations. At a basic level, I am interested in individual and family adaptation to the accumulation of stress and trauma. In addition, I am focused on cultural and family factors in relation to psychopathology and mental health intervention. In particular, I am interested in how family and cultural factors might enhance or ameliorate the relationship between stress and child psychopathology, especially among Latino families. Our lab will continue both basic and intervention research that explores adaptation to stress and adversity among low-income children and families.