Presentations from the July 13-14, 2010 Workshop on the Science of Research on Families

Workshop Agenda

SESSION 1: MEASURING FAMILY STRUCTURES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND PROCESSES

Session 1.1: Measuring family structure, living arrangements, and change

Susan L. Brown, Measuring Family Structure and Instability: Emerging Trends and Challenges

R. Kelly Raley, Cohabitation and Other Aspects of Household Structure and Instability

Kathleen Mullan Harris, Capturing Intergenerational Aspects of Change in Family Patterns

Dan T. Lichter, Measuring the Impact of Race, Class, and Immigration Status on Family Stability

Session 1.2: Measuring interactions among stress, conflict, and family processes

Paul Spicer, Multimethod Research on Stress, Trauma, and Mental Health in American Indian Families

Darlene A. Kertes, Assessing the Biological Stress System: Considerations for Family Research

Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Young Children and Trauma: Research and Clinical Perspectives on Assessment

SESSION 2: CONDUCTING RESEARCH ON FAMILY INFLUENCES ON THE HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Session 2.1: Studying relationships between family dynamics and health risks

Barbara H. Fiese, Inside Family Life: Multiple Layers of Influence on Children’s Health and Wellbeing

Thomas J. McMahon, Studying Substance-Abusing Fathers: Can Evolutionary Concepts Help?

William R. Beardslee, Conducting Research with Families with Mental Health Issues from a Preventive and Resilience-based Perspective

Session 2.2: Studying families and child well-being

Heather J. Bachman, Key Measurement Issues in the Study of Low-income Families and School Readiness

Rashmita S. Mistry, Mixed-method Approaches to Studying Family Contextual Factors and Child Competencies

Rebekah Levine Coley, Lessons Learned from Different Approaches to Studying Family Processes and Child Outcomes

Betsey Stevenson, Estimating Causal Effects with Observational Data: Evidence from Title IX on how Sports Impacts Kids

SESSION 3: BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FAMILY RESEARCH

Session 3.1: Interactive Panel Discussion: Key issues in designing and conducting mixed quantitative and qualitative behavioral family research

Sandra Hofferth, Mixed Methods Example - The Hurried Child: Myth vs. Reality

Session 3.2: Interactive Panel Discussion: Expanding the talent pool, creating opportunities for collaboration and highlighting research priorities

Andrew Fuligni, Successful Multi-Method Training Programs

Wendy Nilsen, The Science of Families: Building the Field

Susan Jekielek, Families and Research at the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)