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Catherine Diercks, Kayla Brown, and Erika Lunkenheimer publish in the Journal of Family Psychology

Diercks, Lunkenheimer, and Brown (2020) found that when children go off-task, mothers with higher cumulative risk are less likely to redirect with scaffolding as compared to lower-risk mothers. When children get back on-task, mothers with higher cumulative risk are both less likely to respond with scaffolding and more likely to respond with directives – even when directives may be unnecessary.

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Dr. Kayla Brown passes doctoral defense

Congratulations to the Parent-Child Dynamics Lab's newest PhD! Dr. Kayla Brown successfully defended her dissertation work to her committee on December 14, 2021. Dr. Brown's dissertation is titled, "Parent-child coregulation in early childhood: novel methodological...