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Alejandra Acu帽a

Department of Social Work
work: (818) 677-7798
email: aacuna@csun.edu or aacunalcsw@gmail.com
Also speaks: Spanish

• Urban youth and families
• Traumatic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Resilience
• Mental health in schools
• School social work
• Family communication
• Family engagement in children鈥檚 mental health
• Evidence-based mental health practices
• Cognitive behavioral intervention for trauma in schools
• Parenting and family therapy
• Solution-focused brief therapy
• Child welfare
• Program evaluation
• Cultural/traditional mental health practices
• Social marketing campaigns for mental health

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Annette Besnilian

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Associate Director, Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics
work: (818) 677-3102
email:听annette.besnilian@csun.edu
Also speaks: Armenian, Farsi, some Spanish

• Nutrition
• Dietetics and food science
• Community nutrition
• Community program development and management
• Dietetic internship development and coordination
• Childhood obesity awareness and prevention

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Joyce Marie Brusasco

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 800-0480
email:听joyce.brusasco.61@csun.edu

• Parent education
• Adolescent development
• Family Theories
• Human development
• Family & child 鈥� teen and adolescent issues

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Diane R. Gehart

Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
work: (818) 677-7468
email:听diane.gehart@csun.edu
Also speaks: German

• Marriage and family therapy
• Child abuse
• Couples issues
• Communication
• Mindfulness
• Buddhist psychology
• Positive psychology

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Angie Giordano

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 677-7851
email: angie.giordano@csun.edu

• Fatherhood
• Parent-based programming
• Family stress
• Coping and resiliency
• Co-parental relationships

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Shelly L. Gray

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 677-4487
email: shelly.gray.427@csun.edu

• Child development
• Child care administration
• Father involvement in child and family development

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Vickie Jensen

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies听
work: (818) 677-3293 / 3591
email:听vickie.jensen@csun.edu

• Gender and crime
• Domestic violence
• Violence
• Homicide
• Sibling violence
• Masculinities and crime
• Parenting in jail and prison
• Adaptations to jail and prison
• Gender and corrections
• Author: 鈥淲hy Women Kill: Gender Equality and Homicide鈥�

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Liza Valerie Keating

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 677-3620
email:听liza.v.keating@csun.edu

• Early childhood education and curriculum
• Prenatal and infant development
• Parent education
• Toddler/infant issues

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Kristyan Kouri

Department of Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies
work: (818) 677-5018
email:听kristyan.m.kouri@csun.edu

• Education
• Gender
• Race
• Family

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Amy Levin

Department of Social Work
work: (818) 677-4994
email:听amy.levin@csun.edu

• At-risk youth
• Veterans鈥� mental health
• 2011 National Association of Social Workers 鈥淪ocial Worker of the Year鈥�

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Sheryl Low

Department of Physical Therapy
work: (818) 677-7256
email:听sheryl.low@csun.edu
Also speaks: some Spanish

• Developmental disabilities
• Children with disabilities
• Pediatric physical therapy
• Cerebral palsy

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Debra Berry Malmberg

Department of Psychology
work: (818) 677-6338
email: debra.malmberg@csun.edu

• Autism
• Applied behavior analysis
• Developmental psychology
• Parent education

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Heather R. McCollum

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 677-7149
email:听heather.mccollum@csun.edu

• Families and technology
• Family health
• Marriage and interpersonal relationships
• Childhood obesity
• Diabetes and family management
• Financial Counseling and Planning Journal, Outstanding Journal Article Award of 2008 for 鈥淭een financial knowledge, self-efficacy, and behavior: A gendered view鈥�

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Scott W. Plunkett

Department of Psychology
work: (818) 677-7480
email:听scott.plunkett@csun.edu

• Program evaluation
• Parenting/family dynamics
• Neighborhood, family, school and peer influences on adolescent development (ethnic minorities)
• Gender differences
• Non-verbal communication
• Parenting education
• Communication and conflict resolution

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Amy Reichbach

Student Health Center
work: (818) 677-3683 / 3666
email:听amy.reichbach@csun.edu

• HIV/AIDS
• Infertility/adoption
• Reproductive health issues

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Carrie L. Saetermoe

Department of Psychology听
work: (818) 677-3506
email: carrie.saetermoe@csun.edu

• Developmental psychology
• Pediatric psychology
• Ethnic dimensions of adolescent disability and transition to adulthood
• Pediatric oncology patients
• Aging
• Disability
• Welfare reform and children鈥檚 well-being

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Ashley Samson

Department of Kinesiology
work: (818) 677-6151
email: ashley.samson@csun.edu

• Sports psychology
• Sports sociology
• Student-athlete family stressors
• Motivations and mental toughness in distance runners
• "Think-Aloud" protocol in distance runners
• Psychological changes during endurance sports training
• Verbalization of thoughts during sports tasks
• Women in sports

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Steven Sherry

Department of Social Work听
work: (818) 677-6421
email:听steven.sherry@csun.edu

• Child and adolescent psychotherapy
• Trauma-based therapy
• Emotional disturbance in children
• School-based mental health
• Child welfare and mental health

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Nate Thomas

Department of Cinema and Television Arts
work: (818) 677-3162
email:听nate.thomas@csun.edu

• Issues of diversity and image portrayal in film and television
• The business and marketing of feature films
• Film and television production
• Issues in the foster care and child protection systems in Los Angeles County
• Child advocacy
• Producer/director: 鈥淓ast of Hope Street鈥�'

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David Wakefield

Department of Child and Adolescent Development
work: (818) 677-5926
email:听david.wakefield@csun.edu

• Ethnic and racial socialization of minority youth
• Children and teens鈥� understanding of race and ethnicity
• Minority adolescents鈥� experience with racism and discrimination
• Bridging the achievement gap between ethnic minority and white students
• Adolescent peer relationships (friendships)
• Adolescent/young adult risk taking behavior
• Bullying
• Childhood aggression
• First-generation college students pursuing graduate/professional degrees

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Veda E. Ward

Department of Recreation and Tourism Management
work: (818) 677-3202
email:听veda.ward@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

• Parks, recreation and tourism curriculum development, assessment and national accreditation
• Women, leisure and family鈥攚ork life balance
• Community development鈥攏ew urbanism, facilities, open space, human potential
• Leisure and spirituality
• Leisure and aging鈥攏utrition, exercise and personal development
• Parks and recreation鈥攕tatewide master plans
• Recruiting minorities into the parks and recreation profession

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Connie White

Department of Elementary Education
work: (818) 677-7394
email:听connie.white@csun.edu

• Literacy reading and writing
• Critical literacy
• Gender and education
• New Literacy Studies
• Family Literacy

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Scott M. Williams

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 701-6898
email:听scott.m.williams@csun.edu

• Family, marital/couple and individual therapy
• Families
• Adolescent males
• Parent/adolescent relationships
• Parenting children with special needs
• Premarital issues
• Aging
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Gender differences in communication
• Co-creator of 鈥淭he Discovery Tool,鈥� a screening instrument to detect age 0 to 5 development and delays
• Co-author: 鈥淢y Family: Past, Present and Future鈥�