Research in the lab explores what effective parental health communication looks like across a range of different conditions and types of health information including illness, injury, sexual health, alcohol use, and mental health.

Peer-reviewed research on parenting and child health

• Communicating with and supporting youth diagnosed with COVID-19: A trauma-informed care approach

• Parent Reactions to Sexual and Gender Identity Disclosure Events in the Deep South

• Frequency of communication about adolescents’ strengths and weaknesses and the parent–adolescent relationship

• Effect of primary care parent-targeted interventions on parent-adolescent communication about sexual behavior and alcohol use: a randomized clinical trial

• Talking with teens about traffic safety: Initial feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a parent-targeted intervention for primary care settings

• Child coping and parent coping assistance during the peritrauma period in injured children.

• Using Community Detection Analysis to Elucidate Caregivers’ Mental Models of Pediatric Concussion Symptoms‍ ‍

• Child and parent perceptions of monitoring in chronic illness management: a qualitative study