Consulting Editors of the Year
2012 Consulting Editors of the Year
Su Yeong Kim is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies the intersection of family and cultural contexts in the development of children of immigrants in the United States. She examines culturally-relevant developmental processes such as acculturation, tiger parenting, and language brokering in immigrant families, with a focus on the development of adolescents. Dr. Kim's focus is on Chinese American and Mexican American families in the United States
Chrystyna D. Kouros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Methodist University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2008, working with Dr. E. Mark Cummings, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University with Dr. Judy Garber. Her research interests focus on understanding the interplay between family processes — mainly, everyday marital conflict — and the development and maintenance of spouses' and children's depression symptoms.
2011 Consulting Editors of the Year
Dr. Arin Connell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. His research interests focus broadly on understanding the etiology of emotional and behavioral disorders across childhood and adolescence, and on translating such developmental models into prevention and intervention programs for at-risk youth. Dr. Connell adopts a multi-method approach to research that integrates observations of social processes family interaction, as well as neurobiological measures of risk and protective processes. Dr. Connell is also interested, more broadly, on the development and application of quantitative methods for developmental and prevention research.
Dr. Dave Atkins is a Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington. Dr. Atkins received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at UW in 2003 and returned to UW as a faculty member in 2008. His primary interests are in applied statistics and methodology, and Dr. Atkins serves as a quantitative methodologist for the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors and the Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness, and Medically Vulnerable Populations. In addition to his quantitative interests and teaching, Dr. Atkins has interests in text-mining and speech signal processing as applied to psychotherapy and research on couple therapy and infidelity.
2010 Consulting Editors of the Year
Dr. Kristina Coop Gordon is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the clinical psychology training program at the University of Tennessee. Her expertise is in understanding how couples react to and resolve major interpersonal traumas in their relationships.
Dr. Lisa Uebelacker is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and of Family Medicine at Brown Medical School. Her research is on developing and testing psychosocial and behavioral treatments for adult depression, particularly in primary care settings, and with a focus on including families in treatment.
2009 Consulting Editors of the Year
Dr. Marianne Celano is an Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her expertise is in family processes associated with childhood medical conditions, family interventions for pediatric asthma, family assessment and treatment for low-income populations, and training in family psychology.
Dr. Brian Doss is an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami in the Department of Psychology. His research is designed to elucidate couples' help-seeking behaviors, identify mechanisms of couple interventions, and develop and evaluate flexible couple interventions.
CONGRATULATIONS to Drs. Celano, Doss, Gordon, and Uebelacker.
