Research Areas

The KiDS Lab explores pathways of youth risk and resilience. Our goal is to better understand how to treat or prevent the development of severe psychopathology. Across all areas of our research we use prospective longitudinal and experimental methods, including randomized controlled trials. We have three primary areas of research discussed below.

Parenting

We study the parenting processes that promote adaptive development in the context of stress and adversity. 

Sleep Health

We explore family-based approached to understanding and supporting optimal sleep health. 

 Psychopathology

We focus on better understanding mechanisms linking risk to the development of psychopathology.

Ongoing Studies

Opportunities for student involvement and collaboration include existing datasets and ongoing research studies. The KiDS lab has access to an extensive number of datasets from previous studies from the lab or lab collaborators. There are two primary longitudinal intervention studies in active phases of data collection, analysis, or both. 

Parenting & Epigenomics

NIMHD-funded R01 examining how changing parenting has downstream effects on the child epigenome and health.​

Youth Sleep & Epigenomics

NIGMS-funded studying exploring how sleep disturbances change DNA methylation and health outcomes. ​

KiDS Research Topics

  • Parenting
  • Parental wellbeing 
  • Sleep health
  • Epigenomics
  • Internalizing
  • ​Externalizing
  • Adversity
  • Intervention
  • Prevention
  • Technology
  • Measurement
  • Development​

KiDS Past Projects


​80+ Publications

10+ NIH Grants