Research Interests

  • Childhood and human development for all ages
  • Social-emotional learning throughout the lifespan from infants to seniors
  • Assessment and treatment of children and adolescents
  • Theoretical and scientific bases for school psychology practice
  • School-based mental health consultation
  • Overcoming bias in cross-cultural consultation
  • Race, ethnicity and gender as factors that influence mental health consultation
  • Teaching English and knowledge models to Non-English speakers
  • Linguistic and developmental underpinnings of language acquisition
  • Issues of intelligence and its modifiability in the development of a working theory for dynamic assessment
  • Reciprocal teaching as a method of competence building and primary prevention in education and mental health
  • Cognitive components of verbal abstracting ability in elementary school-aged children
  • Optimal learning for all people, skill levels and abilities
  • Music, art and drama therapies as educational and mental health techniques
  • Music as a tool for facilitating language acquisition in second language learners
  • Facilitating staff development
  • Leading individual and group therapy
  • Conducting thorough and effective educational and psychological evaluations
  • Teaching new material to diverse individuals and groups
  • Developing and implementing curricula
  • Researching and writing reports – with and without statistical analysis
  • Creating assessment devices, methods and materials
  • And many more interests...