Lauren Micalizzi
Brown University, RI·Psychology
Children with severe behavior problems, such as aggression and rule-breaking, often carry those problems into adulthood. Parents strongly shape how these problems develop.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
parental alcohol use
parent stress
externalizing disorders
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2029
What they work on
- Examine how parental alcohol use, measured partly with alcohol biosensors that detect drinking, relates to changes in children's externalizing behavior during one month of intensive day treatment.
- Test how parent stress relates to children's conduct and oppositional behavior across partial hospitalization treatment, using intensive repeated measurements from multiple informants.
- Explore whether the quality of parent-child interaction is a changeable link connecting parental drinking and stress to children's disruptive behavior in a diverse, severe clinical sample.
More about the research
This project asks how a parent's drinking and stress affect children's disruptive behavior during treatment.
Why it matters
Childhood conduct and oppositional disorders are common, long-lasting and costly. They often lead to lifelong antisocial problems, especially for children from low-income families. Learning how parental drinking and stress shape these children's progress in treatment, and whether parent-child interaction carries that effect, could point to family-level targets that might strengthen care for children at the highest risk.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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Examine physiological synchrony, how closely parent and child body arousal track each other, using wearable biosensors during home mealtimes for children with autism and typically developing children.
The school
Brown University: 23 labs on PI Pages, $375M a year on research, 251 research doctorates a year.
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