The Child Stress and Coping Lab is currently involved in the following projects:

1. Characteristics and treatment effectiveness for school avoidance in the context of chronic pain.

2. Family and child characteristics in pediatric recurrent abdominal pain

3. Parental cognitions associated with pediatric chronic pain

4. Effectiveness of systems-based treatment for pediatric chronic pain

5. Social consequences of chronic pain behaviors

6. Complementary and alternative medicine approaches to pediatric chronic pain

1. Effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient behavioral treatment for feeding disorders

2. Development and validation of measures to assess parent and child mealtime interactions

3. Predictors of mealtime problem behaviors

4. Reconceptualizing feeding disorders as a relational disorder

1. Effects of disease disclosure on social functioning

2. Social influences on regimen adherence

3. Development of disease specific coping measures

1. Statewide survey of needs and concerns of parents adopting special needs children and adolescents (funded by US Children’s Bureau)

1. Effectiveness of group CBT and parent training in reducing aggressive behavior in male adolescents (funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

2. Coping strategies among youth and parents affected by community violence

3. Measurement equivalence of the CBCL and BASC among African-American youth