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Meet the New Class: CYF's New Members
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 Barbara H. Fiese, PhD is Professor and Chair of the Department ofPsychology at Syracuse University and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Upstate Medical University, Syracuse New York. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical and Developmental Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago under the mentorship of Arnold Sameroff, PhD. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), member of the Society for Research in Child Development Policy and Communications Board, and Wynne Center for Family Research Board. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Family Psychology and Family Process. She has been the guest editor of several special peer-reviewed journal issues including the Journal of Family Psychology's special section on Family Routines and Rituals co-edited with Ross Parke and Journal of Pediatric Psychology's special issue on Family Based Interventions in Pediatric Psychology. Her research focuses on family factors that promote health and wellbeing in children and has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, W. T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and March of Dimes Foundation. She is currently engaged in a five year project supported by the National Institute of Mental Health examining the role that family routines and rituals play in promoting medical adherence and reducing anxiety in children with asthma. Interviews focusing on her work appear frequently in the popular press including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Ladies Home Journal. Her latest book, Family Routines and Rituals, Yale University Press, is due to be released August 2006.
 Karen S. Budd, PhD is Professor of Psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches and supervises undergraduates and doctoral students in the Clinical Psychology Program. Karen's primary research interests center on at-risk parenting, including a focus on understanding and strengthening parenting in cases of child abuse and neglect, disruptive child behavior disorders, teenage parenting, and other conditions that complicate childrearing. She examines parenting and parent-child relationships from cultural, ecological, and social learning perspectives. Karen directs the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Program at the DePaul Community Mental Health Center and formerly directed an innovative demonstration and research project at Cook County Juvenile Court on assessment of minimal parenting competence. Karen is coauthor (with J. Kedesdy, 1998) of Children's Feeding Disorders: Biobehavioral Assessment and Intervention and coauthor (with T. Stokes, 2003) of A Small Matter of Proof: The Legacy of Donald M. Baer. In 2004, Karen was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She serves on the APA Committee on Children, Youth and Families and the Illinois Association for Infant Mental Health Board.
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