Curriculum Vitae

Kenneth A. Dodge

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Education

Ph.D	Duke University	1978
BA (Awarded with Highest Distinction and Honors in Psychology)	Northwestern University	1975

Areas of Research: Youth Violence and Child Abuse

Areas of Interest: child abuse
violence prevention
substance use

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Psychology, Director, Center for Child and Family, 2002 - present

: Professor of Public Policy Studies and of Psychology, 1998 - present

: Instructor, Department of Psychology, 1978

: NIMH Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Fellowship, 1975 - 1977

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Research Professor, 2002 - present

University of Oregon: Leona Tyler Distinguished Lecturer, 2001

West Virginia University: Helen Coast Hayes Lecturer, 2001

University of New Hampshire: Mary Henessey Blum Memorial Lecturer, 1998

Vanderbilt University: Adjoint Professor of Psychology, 1998 - present

: Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor, 1997 - 1998

: Professor of Psychology, 1988 - 1998

: Associate Professor of Psychology, 1986 - 1988

University of California, San Diego: Distinguished Lecturer in Human Development, 1997

University of Texas: Ira Iscoe Lecturer in Human Development, 1996

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: Fellow, 1995 - 1996

: Fellow, 1989 - 1990

Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Professor of Psychiatry, 1991 - 1998

University of Colorado: Associate Professor of Psychology, 1985 - 1986

Indiana University: Associate Professor of Psychology, 1983 - 1985

: Assistant Professor of Psychology, 1979 - 1983

Duke University Medical Center: Clinical Psychology Internship, 1978 - 1979

Visiting Positions: Professor, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", 2001; Professor Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, 2001; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000; Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, 1992; Irving Harris Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, 1990; Distinguished Visiting Professor, California State University, 1987; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, 1987

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: American Education Research Association Division E Distinguished Research Award in Human Development, 2003
Distinguished Research Award in Human Development, American Education Research Association Division E, 2003
Fellow, Academy of Experimental Criminology, 2003
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003 - present
Most Highly-Cited Scientist, Institute for Scientific Information, Web of Science, 2003, 2004
Senior Scientist Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2002
American Psychological Association Presidential Track Invited Lecturer, 2002
Helen Coast Hayes Lecturer, West Virginia University, 2001
Leona Tyler Distinguished Lecturer, University of Oregon, 2001
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000
Named one of 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century, International Biographical Center of Cambridge, England, 1999
List of Top 50 Developmental Psychologists, Developmental Review, Citation Counts, July, 1997
Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor, Vanderbilt University, 1997 - 1998
Distinguished Lecturer in Human Development, University of California, San Diego, 1997
Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, 1992
Research Scientist Award, NIMH, 1992 - 2003
Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1990
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1989-1990; 1995-1996
Fellow, Association for Clinical Psychosocial Research, 1989
Fellow, American Psychological Association (Divisions 1 & 7), July, 1987
Distinguished Visiting Professor, California State University, 1987
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, 1987
Esquire Magazine Register of Outstanding Men and Women Under Forty, 1986
Research Career Development Award, NICHD, 1986 - 1992
Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award for Research in Developmental Psychology, 1985
Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution in Psychopathology, American Psychological Association, 1984
Foundation for Child Development Young Scholar, 1982 - 1983
Indiana University Faculty Research Fellowship, 1981
Lilly Foundation Post-Doctoral Teaching Award, 1981 - 1982
National Research Service Award, Duke University, 1977
NIMH Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Fellowship, 1975 - 1977
Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University, 1975

Conferences Organized: Enhancing Early Attachments, October 2003; Convener, Emerging Issues in African-American Family Life, May 2003; Convener, Supporting Latino Achievement in North Carolina Schools, March 2003

Professional Service

A&S Council: Board Member, Social Science Research Institute, 2002 - present

University Committee: member, University Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, July 1, 2007 - June, 2008; member, President's Council on Black Affairs, 2002- 2007; member, Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, November 28, 2003 - May 1, 2005

Dept Committee: Social Policy Concentation Committee, 2007 - present; Social Policy Concentation Committee, 2002-2006; member, Committee on Doctoral Programs, present; Faculty Member, Clinical Psychology Graduate Program, 1999-present; Faculty Member, Developmental Psychology Graduate Program, 1999-present; Chair, Child and Family Policy Faculty Search Committee, January 2007; member, Promotion and Tenure Review Committee for a Psychology Faculty Member, January 2007; Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2005 - 2006; member, Child and Family Policy Faculty Search Committee, September 1, 2004 - 2005; Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2003

Papers Refereed: reviewer, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008 - present; reviewer, Academic Journals (8), 2008 - present; Numerous Journals, January 2006; Reviewer, NIH, January 2006

Univ Services: Director, Center for Child and Family Policy, 1999-present; Consultant, Dean of Arts and Sciences, 2000

Special Projects: grants reviewer, NIH, 2008 - present; Organizer, Family Impact Seminar, 2008 - present; Chair, America's Promise Research Council, 2008 - present; Consultant, NC Alliance for Evidence-Based Programs, 2008 - present; Consultant, National Safe Schools/Healthy Students Program, 2000-present; Member, Juvenile Justice Planning Committee, North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission, 2003 - 2007; The Prevention of Violence, NIH State of the Science Expert Lecture, October, 2005; Peer Review in Education Research, National Research Council Expert Panel Lecture, January 2005; Lecturer, NIH State of the Science Expert Panel, October, 2004; Expert Lecturer, National Research Council Committee on Peer Review in Education Research, March, 2004

Community Service: Consultant, Durham City/County Violence Prevention Committee, 2001; Member, NC Institute of Medicine Task Force on Child Abuse, 2004-present

Other: Member, Professional Societies, 2006 - present; Ad hoc reviewer or study section member, research grant proposals, 2006 - present; Director, North Carolina Family Impact Seminar, 2004 - present; Consultant, National Safe Schools/Healthy Students Program, 2000 - present; Member of Editorial Board, Applied Developmental Science, 2000 - present; Member, Academic Advisory Council, National Campaign AgaInst Youth Violence, 1999 - present; Member, National Institutes of Health Reviewers Reserve, 1994 - present; Interviewed and cited, Policy and Scientific Issues over 1000 times, 1980 - present; Member, Expert Panel on Children's Research and Development, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2002 - 2007; Consulting Editor, Developmental Psychology, 1998 - 2007; Consultant, The Teenage Parent Demonstration (TPD) and The Expanded Child Care Options (ECCO) Programs, Mathematics Policy Research, Inc., 1991 - 2007; Consulting Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1989 - 2007; Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004-2007; Consultant, City/County Violence Prevention Committee, 2001; Summer Institute Co-Leader, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1998; Steering Committee Member and Research Program Area Leader, National Consortium on Violence Research, 1996-1999; Member of Editorial Board, Peabody Journal of Education, 1995-1998; Member, Research Advisory Committee, Children's Mental Health Services Research Center, 1995-2000; Reviewer, Medical Research Council Child Psychiatry Unit, 1994; Advisor, MacArthur Foundation Network on Successful Developmental Pathways through Childhood, 1993; Consultant, Juvenile Court of Davidson County (TN) Program on Truancy Prevention, 1993; Advisor, Children's Cancer Study Group, 1992; Member and Chair, Children's Plan Advisory Committee, 1992-1997; Consultant, State of Tennessee Department of Education Comprehensive Plan for Early Childhood Education and Parent Involvement, 1991; Member, Board of Directors of Mental Health Association of Nashville, TN, 1990-1997; Workshop participant, Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, 1989; Advisor, MacArthur Foundation Network on Risk and Protective Factors on Psychopathology, 1989; Consultant, The Ft. Bragg Evaluation Project, A CHAMPUS Study of Systems of Children's Mental Health Service Delivery, 1989-1995; Study Section Member, (HUD-1), NICHD, 1988-1989; 1990-1994; Member, Advisory Panel of Social and Developmental Psychology, NSF, 1988; Advisor, MacArthur Foundation Network on Transition from Infancy to Childhood, 1988; Consultant, Time-Life Books, 1988-1989; Member, Selection Committee for Boyd McCandless Award, Division 7 of APA, 1988; Member, State of Tennesee Govenor's Task Force on the Mental Health of Children, 1988-1990; Member of Editorial Board, Development and Psychopathology, 1987-1998; Consulting Editor, Psychological Review, 1987-1994; Member, Consortium on the Promotion of Social Competence, William T. Grant Foundation, 1987-1992; Member of Editorial Board, Behavioral Assessment, 1986-1992; Member of Editorial Board, Behavior Therapy, 1986-1996; Member, State of Tennesee Governor's Task Force on the Assessment of Children, 1986-1987; Associate Editor, Developmental Psychology, 1985-1988; Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1985-1987; Member of Editorial Board, Child Development, 1981-1985; 1989-1996; Consultant, Head Start Program, 1980-1985

Lectures

Invited Addresses:: The role of the environment and development in gene by environment interactions, San Francisco, CA, 2008

Invited Lectures:: Social information processing models of aggressive behavior, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2009; Hostile Attributional Bias in Violent Crime, Los Angeles, CA, November 02, 2006; Transaction Development of Adolescent Violence, University of Michigan, June 02, 2006; Children's Mental Health Policy, Raleigh, NC, May 17, 2006; Youth Violence: Development, Prevention, and Public Policy, University of Pittsburgh, April 07, 2006; Preventing adolescent conduct problems: The Fast Track multi-site, randomized controlled trial, Washington, DC, 2006; Positive parenting, negative parenting, and the development of overt and covert antisocial behavior problems in early adolescence, San Francisco, CA, 2006; Deviant Peer Influences in Interventions for Youth, Washington, D.C., January 10, 2006; Preventing severe conduct problems in school-age youth: Findings from the Fast Track PreventionTrial, Portland, OR, 2005; Social information processing and dating violence: Moderating effects of impulsivity and anxiety, Los Angeles, CA, 2005; A Cascade Model of the Development of Substance Use, University of North Carolina, October, 2004; State of the Science of Violence Prevention, National Institutes of Health, October, 2004; Comorbidity and the Prevention of Depression and Conduct Disorder, National Institutes of Health, June, 2004; The Development and Prevention of Serious Violence, Harvard University, February, 2004; "The Development and Prevention of Chronic Violence", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003; "Improving Peer Review in Education Grant Funding", National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2003; "Public Policy and Developmental Psychology", University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2003; "The Development and Prevention of Chronic Conduct Problems in Youth", Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2003; "Psychophysiological and Cognitive Regulation of Aggressive Behavior in Adolescence", Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 2003; "The Prevention of Chronic Conduct Problems in School Children", North Carolina Association of School Psychologists, Raleigh, N.C., 2003; "Toward a Dynamic Developmental Model of the Role of Parents and Peers in Deviant Behavioral Development", Jacobs Foundation Conference, Zurich Switzerland, 2003; "What Prevention Science Can Do for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network", San Diego, California, 2003; Invited address to the White House Conference on Character and Community, Washington,DC, 2002; "The Prevention of School Violence", St. Louis, Missouri, October 2002; "Preventing Chronic Violence Among School Children", US Department of Education, Washington, D.C., August 2002; "Using Developmental Science to Prevent Chronic Violence in Children and Adolescents: The Fast Track Study", Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 2002; "Preventing Chronic Violence in Schools", White House Conference on Character and Community, Washington, D.C., June 2002; "The Fast Track Prevention Trial", US Department of Education, Washington, D.C., March 2002; "The Development and Prevention of Chronic Violence in Children", University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, December 2001; Invited discussant, Symposium on School-based violence prevention effects from preschool through adolescence: Altering development trajectories, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April 2001; "Social Withdrawal, Drug Use, and Aggression in Youth", Milan, Italy, 2001; "Workshop on the Prevention of Problem Behaviors in Youth", Rome, Italy, 2001; "How Chronic Violence Develops", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000; "The Prevention of Violence in Children", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000; "The Development and Prevention of Serious Violence in Children", New York University, New York, 2000; "Development and Prevention of Chronic Violence in Children and Adolescents", University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 1999; "Parenting Influences on the Development of Antisocial Behavior in Children", NICHD Conference on Parenting and the Child's World, Bethesda, Maryland, 1999; Adolescence violence: Development, prevention, and public policy, Colloquium delivered at Duke University, Durham, NC, 1998; Development and prevention of aggressive behavior, Colloquium at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1998; Development and prevention of aggressive behavior, Colloquium at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1998; Development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, England, 1998; Social cognition and conduct disorder, Colloquium at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1998; Biopsychosocial influences on the development of conduct disorder, Colloquium at Yale Univesity, New Haven, CT, 1997; Biopsychosocial models of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at Carnegie-Mellon University, 1997; Chronic violence: Development, prevention, and policy, Presentation at the American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, 1997; How chronic conduct problems develop, Symposium of post McCandless Award winners, at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, 1997; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at Emory University, 1997; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium delivered at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 1997; Keynote address, The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1997; The development of chronic violence, Colloquium at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, Distinguished Lecture delivered at the University of California, San Diego, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, Colloquium at the University of California, San Diego, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, American Psychologival Society Meeting, Washington, DC, 1997; The development of conduct disorder, International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Meeting, Paris, France, 1997; The scientific base for developing psychological prevention and treatment interventions for mental and physical disorders, Distinguished Fellow Panel Discussion, American Psychological Society Meeting, Washington, DC, 1997; A biopsychosocial model of conduct disorder, Clinical Psychology at the Century: A Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1996; Biopsychosocial perspectives on the development of conduct disorder, NIMH Prevention Research Conference, MacLean, VA, 1996; Invited Keynote Address, Community approaches to preventing violence, 75th Anniversary celebration of the Worcester Youth Guidance Clinic, Worcester, MA, 1996; Development and prevention of conduct problems in childhood and adolescence, American Institutes for Research, Portola Valley, CA, 1996; Family experience factors in the development of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at the University of California at Riverside, 1996; Social information processing and aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium presented at the University of California at Berkeley, 1996; The development and prevention of conduct problems, Ira Iscoe Lecture, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1996; Developmental psychopathology and prevention of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995; Prevention of conduct disorder: From theory to practice, Family Court Clinic Conference, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada, 1995; The development and prevention of violence in children, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1995; The development of chronic aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium presented to the Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1995; The developmental psychopathology of conduct disorder, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York, 1995; How does the experience of physical abuse lead a child to become chronically violent toward others?, Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, Rochester, NY, 1994; The development and prevention of conduct disorder, Presentation and workshop at the annual meeting of the Hawaii Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1994; The developmental psychopathology of conduct disorder, Annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boca Raton, FL, 1994; The role of fathers in children's lives, Panel discussion at the Family Re-Union III Conference, Nashville, TN, 1994; Plenary Speaker, Addressing the Emotional and Mental Well Being of Children, Conference on Communities, Families, and Schools, Tennessee Voices for Children Public Policy Forum, 1993; Keynote Speaker, Preventing Chronic Violence, Nashville, TN Forum, 1993; Families and schools together, Forum sponsored by Tennessee Voices for Children, Nashville, TN, 1993; How social rejection leads to antisocial behavior in children, Pre-conference meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Santa Barbara, CA, 1993; How social rejection leads to antisocial behavior in children, Annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Santa Barbara, CA, 1993; Physical abuse and antisocial behavior in children, Colloquium presented at Duke University, Durham, NC, 1993; Preventing violence in children, Nashville, TN, Forum, 1993; Social information processing and peer rejection factors in the development of behavior problems in children, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, 1993; The transition to school, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, 1993; Speaker, Vice President Al Gore's Annual Family Re-Union Conference on Fathers in America, 1993; Social information processing and the development of conduct disorder, Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 1992; Social information processing mechanisms in the cycle of violence, Ida Beam Lecture delivered at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1992; The development of conduct disorder, Colloquium presented at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1992; The future treatment of conduct disorder, NIMH Conference on Conduct Disorder, Washington, DC, 1992; Mechanisms in the cycle of violence, New Directions Addresses to the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Minneapolis, MN, 1991; Parent training as an intervention competent in preventing conduct disorders, Symposium held at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 1991; Social-information-processing factors in the negotiation of conflict, Colloquium delivered at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1991; Studying mechanisms in the cycle of violence, Mental Health Foundation Conference on the Science and Psychiatry of Violence, Balliol College, Oxford University, England, 1991; Antisocial development and the role of family and social information processing factors, Colloquium delivered at the University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1990; Early physical abuse as a predictor of aggressive behavior and peer relationship problems, Group de Recherche Sur L'Inadaptation Psycho-Sociale Chez L'Enfant. Baie St. St. Paul, Quebec, Canada, 1990; Social information processing mechanisms in the cycle of violence, Irving Harris Lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1990; A social information processing theory of aggressive behavior development, Colloquium delivered at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1990; Family and social information procesing factors in the development of aggressive behavior, Colloquium delivered at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1990; The development of chronic aggressive behavior problems in children, Colloquium delivered at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 1990; Aggressive behavior in children: Social information processing patterns and family origins, Colloquium delivered at Sanford University, Stanford, CA, 1989; Family influence on the development of aggressive behavior, Colloquium presented at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1989; Origins of aggression in children, Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, Washington, DC, 1989; Social competence and aggression in children: Family origins, Colloquium delivered at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1989; Social information processing and developmental psychopathology, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, 1989; The development of aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium delivered at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 1989; The study of dyadic relationships in boys' playgroups, Colloquium presented at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1989; Understanding and preventing chronic violence in children, Bush Center for Public Policy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1989; Violence in children and public policy, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Nashville, TN, 1989; Emotional vulnerability in aggressive children, SRCD Study Group on the Development of Affect Regulation and Dysregulation, Nashville, TN, 1988; Peer relations and developmental psychopathology, Fourth Indiana Conference on Clinical Science, Nashville, TN, 1988; Social information processing and hostile and instrumental aggression in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988; Social information processing and juvenile delinquency, Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene, OR, 1988; Social information processing in depressed and aggressive populations, University of Rochester Mt. Hope Family Center Conference on Developmental Psychopathology, 1988; The assessment of social cognition, MacArthur Foundation network on the transition from infancy to childhood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1988; The development of social information processing biases, Colloquium delivered at the Western Psychiatric Institutes and Clinics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1988; The structure and function of reactive and proactive aggression, Earlscourt Symposium on Childhood Aggression, Ontario, Canada, 1988; Aggressive behavior disorders, Nashville Family Therapy Consortium, 1987; Assessment of social cognition in violent and emotionally disturbed children, NIMH Conference on Assessment and Treatment of Violent and Emotionally Disturbed Children and Adolescents, Durham, NC, 1987; Assessment of social competence in psychiatric populations, Association for Clinical Psychosocial Research, Chicago, IL, 1987; Social cognition and hostile and instrumental aggression, Sixth International Nags Head Conference on Social Cognition, Nags Head, NC, 1987; Social information processing and aggressive behavior, Colloquium presented at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1987; Social information processing in children, Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture, University of Utah, Provo, Utah, 1987; The development of aggressive behavior, Nashville Family Therapy Consortium Lecture, Nashville, TN, 1987; The social world of aggressive child, Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture, California State University, Chico, CA, 1987; Assessment of social competence in the planning of preventive intervention, Consortium on the School-Based Promotion of Social Competence, New York, 1986; Processing approaches to anger and hostility, MacArthur Foundation Network on the determinants and consequences of health-daming and health-promoting behavior, West Palm Beach, FL, 1986; Social information processing patterns and hostile and instrumental aggression, Colloquium delivered at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1986; Affect and social cognition, Nags Head International Conference on Social Cognition, Nags Head, NC, 1985; Social competence and social information processing in children, Colloquium delivered at Duke University, Durham, NC, 1985; Social information processing and affect in aggressive children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1985; Aggression and social information processing in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1984; Preventive intervention with school-aged children, Governor's Conference on Mental Health, Indianapolis, IN, 1984; Social information processing and aggressive behavior in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wayne State University, the University of North Carolina, Purdue University, University of Colorado, and the University of California at Berkeley, 1984; The relation between diagnostic assessment of social skills and subsequent intervention design, Conference on Research Strategies in Children's Social Skills Training. Sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 1984; A social information processing conceptualization of aggressive behavior in children, Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, MN, 1983; Aggression and social information processing in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1983; Behavioral determinants of social competence in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, 1983; Social information processing and aggressive behavior, Nags Head International Conference on Social Cognition, Nags Head, NC, 1983; Social competence and aggressive behavior in children, Midwestern Psychological Association, Detroit, MI, 1982; Social competence and social skills in children, Eighth Annual Henry Lester Smith Conference on Educational Research, Bloomington, IN, 1982; Social competence and sociometric status in children, Colloquium delivered at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1982; Social information processing variables in the development of altruism and aggression, Sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development, held at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, 1982; The role of social approach behavior in the development of social rejection and isolation in children's peer groups: A multivariate information theory analysis, Midwestern Psychologival Association, Minneapolis, MN, 1982

Meetings:: Public Forum on Character and Community with Laura Bush, St. Louis, MO, 2002

Invited Talks:: The Fast Track project: Preventing conduct problems in school-age youth, Cincinnati, OH, 2007

Other:: Keynote Address at Leaving No Child Behind: Results-Based Strategies for Safe and Drug-Free Schools, 2002 National Technical Assistance Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2002; Policy Briefing on Re-Authorization of IDEA. U.S. Congressional Members and Aides, Washington, DC, 2002; Member, Expert Panel on Children's Research and Development, White House Office of Science and Technology, Washington,DC, 2002; Consultation Regarding The Fast Track Prevention Trial, U.S. Department of Education, Washington,DC, 2002; Fast Track and other effective prevention programs for at-risk youth, Durham, NC, 2001; Testimony to the State of Tennessee Legislature Select Committee on Children and Youth, 1989, 1993

Conferences:: Longitudinal and intergenerational relations between substance use and child maltreatment, Denver, CO, 2009; Internalizing symptoms and sexual behavior in adolescence: One may not lead to the other, Denver, Co, 2009; Sleep duration predicts symptoms of conduct disorder and depression in late adolescence, Denver, CO, 2009; Predictors of parents' campaigns to reduce their children's conduct problems, Denver, CO, 2009; Who dislikes whom: Characteristics of children in mutual dislike dyads that promote or deter aggression, Denver, CO, 2009; Child temperament and change in interparental conflict, Denver, CO, 2009; A longitudinal study of developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms, Denver, CO, 2009; Genetic moderation of antisocial peer influence: Examination of the Taq1A polymorphism, Denver, CO, 2009; Genetic influences on developmental trajectories of externalizing behavior: Data from the Child Development Project, Denver, CO, 2009; Elementary school age boys' social information processing cognitions in ambiguous situations, Denver, CO, 2009; Competence, social capital, and life adjustment, Denver, CO, 2009; Perceptions of parental rejection and hostility as mediators of the link between discipline and adjustment in five countries, Chicago, IL, 2008; The developmental course of illicit substance use from age 12 to 22: Links with depressive, anxiety, and behavior disorders at age 18, Indianapolis, IN, 2008; Developmental precursors of risky sexual behavior, Indianapolis, IN, 2008; Early exposure to marital instability: Implications for sexual behavior and mental health, Chicago, IL, 2008; Phenotypic manifestations of GABRA2 across development: Longitudinal extension and replication of findings, Chicago, IL, 2008; Social Information Procession and antisocial behavior: Recent developments in developmental research, Wuerzburg, Germany, 2008; Genetic influences on developmenta trajectoris fo externalizing behavior: Data from the Child Development Project, Louisville, KY, 2008; Genotypic associations with externalizing trajectories: Examining moderation by adverse socialization environments, Louisville, KY, 2008; DRD2/ANKK1 genotypes predict adolescent substance use trajectories: An 8-year, 6-wave longitudinal analysis, Washington, DC, 2008; Profiles of early risk for externalizining problems and social competence in late childhood, Boston, MA, 2007; Neighborhood effects on child outcomes in a high risk sample, Boston, MA, 2007; Contributions of skill deficits and aggressive classroom contexts to aggressive-rejected versus aggressive-accepted peer status, Boston, MA, 2007; The role of ethnic dentity and parenting practices in predicting depression among African-American youth, Boston, MA, 2007; Muddy water: Age of onset as a means of subtyping conduct problems, Washington, DC, 2007; The effects of the Fast Track prevention program on reducing adolescent conduct disorder, Washington, DC, 2007; Testing a dynamic cascade model of the development of serious violence in adolescence, Washington, DC, 2007; Lessons learned from the Fast Track longitudinal intervention targeting youth at risk for conduct problems, Washington, DC, 2007; Pathways of girls' delinquency, Washington, DC, 2007; Identifying early risk profiles for behavior and academic problems in late childhood: An application of latent class analysis, Washington, DC, 2007; Child maltreatment and later mental health problems: The mediating and moderation roles of social support during the transition to parenting, Portsmouth, NH, 2007; Mediators of the links between childhood maltreatment and early parenting, Portsmouth, NH, 2007; Depression as a mediator of the link between child maltreatment and adult re-victimization: Implications for screening and intervention, Portsmouth, NH, 2007; Practice and public policy in the era of gene-environment interactions, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2007; Middle school outcomes of a longitudinal intervention targeting conduct problems, Boston, MA, 2007; The impact of a longitudinal intervention on adolescent conduct disorder, Boston, MA, 2007; Lessons learned from a longitudinal intervention targeting youth at-risk for conduct problems, Boston, MA, 2007; Monitoring behavior and knowledge: Distinct antecedents and behavioral outcomes?, San Francisco, CA, 2006; From developmental psychopathology to prevention science to public policy: The Fast Track project, Los Angeles, CA, 2006; School suspension: Effective intervention or self-fulfilling prophecy?, San Francisco, CA, 2006; Peer rejection and loneliness as predictors of internalizing problems in early adolescence, San Francisco, CA, 2006; Neighborhood effects on child outcomes in a high risk sample, San Antonio, TX, 2006; Positive parenting and adolescent adjustment: The moderating influence of reward sensitivity, San Francisco, CA, 2006; Usng relationships to get what you want: Relationally manipulative and relationally aggressive social problem solving, Ft. Worth, TX, 2006; Understanding the childhood mealtime environment: A first step in designing interventions for obesity prevention, San Antonio, TX, 2006; Dimensions of psychopathy in a longitudinal sample of high-risk youth: The discrimination of externalizing behavior trajectories, Chicago, IL, 2006; Implementing long-term interventions with high-risk families: Lessons learned from the Fast Track Project, Melbourne, Australia, 2006; The Fast Track prevention trial: Prevention of severe conduct problems in school-aged youth, Oslo, Norway, 2006; The Fast Track project: Preventing conduct problems in school-age youth, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2006; The influence of parental aggressive conflict and rejection sensitivity on relationship aggression: A longitudinal study, New York, NY, 2006; Predicting mothers' monitoring across childhood and adolescence from proactive parenting, child temperament, and parents' worries, San Francisco, CA, 2006; Social cognition and physiological responses to aggression: Social information processing as an antecedent and a consequent, San Francisco, CA, 2006; The development of civic engagement: Academic factors and extracurricular involvement, San Francisco,CA, 2006; Fast Track morphs into On Track: Implementation in Manchester, England, New Orleans, LA, 2006; Transitions in parental marital status and development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors in childhood and adolescence, San Francisco, CA, 2006; Effects of childhood maltreatment on parenting: Mechanisms underlying intergenerational continuity and discontinuity, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; Relationally aggressive social problem solving: Family origins and gender differences, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; The moderating effects of disinhibition on development of adolescent externalizing behavior, Part of a symposium at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; Developmental pathways of physical aggression for males and females, Part of a symposium at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; The childhood mealtime environment: Sociodemographic differences in structure and process, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Engaging adolescents: Parenting amidst race/locale, neighborhood, and family context influences, Atlanta, GA, 2005; The childhood mealtime environment: Sociodemographic differences in structure and process, 2005; The effects of behavior problems, early puberty, and peer deviance on girls' initiation of sexual activity, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Time in and satisfaction with youth extracurricular activities: Associations with youth close friendships, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Early parenting antecedents of parent school involvement, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Individual, peer, and familial predictors of dimension of psychopathology in samples of high risk and normative youth, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Predictors and gender differences in children's relationally aggressive response generation, Atlanta, GA, 2005; The development of attention problems in sexually abused children: A path analytic model, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Trajectories in harsh discipline during middle childhood: Antecedents and developmental outcomes, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Evaluation of “STARS Plus”: A school readiness program, Social-emotional and demographic precursors to school readiness for children at risk. Symposium presented at the Head Start National Research Conference, Washington, DC, June, 2004; Predictors of externalizing behavior in sexually abused children, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2004; Longitudinal mixture modeling: An illustration using data from Fast Track, Part of “A system of care for children’s mental health: Expanding the research base,” at the 16th Annual Research Conference in Tampa, FL, March, 2003; From mischief to violence: How culture shapes the growth of aggressive behavior, Tampa, FL, 2003; Longitudinal predictors of dating violence perpetration among adolescent men and women, Part of symposium “Ending abusive relationships: Methods for improving dating violence intervention and prevention programs,” at the 36th Annual Convention of Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV, November 16, 2002; A longitudinal analysis of internalizing and externalizing disorders among male and female perpetrators of dating violence, Part of symposium “Bidirectional dating violence: conceptual and empirical findings,” at 36th Annual Convention of Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV, November 15, 2002; Aggression, physical punishment, and culture, Jacobs Foundation Conference on Ethnic Variations in Intergenerational Continuities and Discontinuities in Psychosocial Features and Disorders, Marbach Castle, Switzerland, August, 2002; Coping strategies as predictors of growth in posttraumatic stress symptoms: A follow-up study of sexually abused children, 2002 SRA Biennial Meeting, 2002; Community and neighborhood moderation of the Fast Track program, Symposium, "Contextual moderators of intervention effects" at the meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Seattle, WA, June, 2002; Developmental pathways leading to adolescent friendship qualities, Annual meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA, April, 2002; Development of adolescents’ self-perceptions of adjustment: Cross-informant, longitudinal prediction, International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Vancouver, Canada, 2001; Stability of parental knowledge and its link with adolescent delinquent behavior: The role of parent-teen involvement and adolescent disclosure and beliefs, International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Vancouver, Canada, 2001; How early maltreatment leads to adolescent dysfunction, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, 2001; Shaping school norms through targeting prevention at aggressive and influential youth, Symposium at the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2001; Developmental changes in the correlates of peer victimization: A longitudinal analysis, Minneapolis, MN, 2001; Predicting long-term use of costly services by children at risk for behavioral disorders, Minneapolis, MN, 2001; Individual, family, and school risk factors for early initiation of substance use, 2000 meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL, 2000; Individual, family, and school predictors of early-onset substance use: A six-year prospective study, Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL, 2000; Relationship of pre-existing psychopathology to early tobacco use by school-age youth, 2000 meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago, IL, 2000; Quality of early family relationships and timing of pubertal and sexual development in girls: A longitudinal test of an evolutionary mode, International Conference on Personal Relationships, Brisbane, Australia, 2000; Relationship of pre-existing psychopathology to early tobacco use by school-age youth, Chicago, IL, 2000; Development of adolescents' self-percetions of adjustment: Cross-informant, longitudinal prediction, Vancouver, Canada, 2000; U.S. Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health, Washington, D.C., 2000; Early starters, late starters, and desisters in antisocial behavior, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, 1999; A semiparametric group-based approach to analyzing developmental trajectories in child conduct problems, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, 1999; CASE Media Fellowship Program on Strengthening America’s Youth, 1998; Results of the Fast Track Prevention Trial, Part of a symposium at the Life History Research Society Meeting, Seattle, 1998; The timing of physical abuse: Adolescent group differences and developmental trajectories, Part of a symposium at the meeting of the Society of Research in Adolescence, San Diego, CA, 1998; Do early parenting practices play a formative role in behavior-problem development?, Conference on Longitudinal Studies in Children at Risk, Vienna, Austria, 1998; Predicting conduct problem patterns from adolescents’ psychosocial maturity and social information processing, American Psychological Society, Washington, DC, May, 1998; The mediating effect of sociomoral judgments about aggression on the relation between hostile attributional style and antisocial conduct, Conference on Human Development, Mobile, AL, March, 1998; Relations between family social support, parenting practices, and children's adjustment: Do African-American and European-American families differ?, Conference on Human Development, Mobile, AL, March, 1998; Parenting practices as mediators and moderators of the relation between marital conflict and child adjustment: A longitudinal study, Conference on Human Development, Mobile, AL, March, 1998; The Fast Track Program: Multisite prevention of conduct disorder, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August, 1997; The developmental outcome of early onset comorbidity, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August, 1997; Vice President Al Gore’s Annual Family Re-Union Conference on Families and Schools, 1997; Mayor’s Conference on A Healthy Nashville: Summit 97, 1997; Testing developmental theory through prevention trials, Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research on Child Development, Washington, DC, 1997; How early peer rejection and acquired autonomic sensitivity to peer conflicts influence each other to produce conduct problems in adolescence, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Washington, DC, 1997; Social-cognitive and relational predictors of juvenile arrest, Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November, 1996; Parent’s and children’s understanding of harsh parental discipline: Individual and cultural group, Annual Meeting of the British Psychological Society, Developmental Section, Oxford England, September, 1996; The roles of individual and neighborhood characteristics in the development of child behavior, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA, 1996; Parenting differences moderate the linkage between temperamental resistance to control in infancy and externalizing behavior problems in middle childhood, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, June, 1996; The relations between a child and his or her tutor and tutoring outcomes, Southwestern Society for Research in Human Development, March, 1996; Ethnic group differences in the role of early harsh discipline in later conduct problems, Symposium at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Santa Monica, CA, January, 1996; Vice President Al Gore’s Annual Family Re-Union Conference on Media and Children, 1995; Ethnic group differences in the covariation of physical discipline and child aggression, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York, June, 1995; Interactive effects of emotional autonomy and social relationships on the regulation of adolescent negative effect, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN, April, 1995; Risk factors for the development of externalizing behavior problems: Are there ethnic group differences in process?, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN, April, 1995; Vice President Al Gore's Annual Family Re-Union Conference on Media and Children, 1995; Children's aggression in dyadic peer relationships, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the International Society of the Study of Behavioral Development, Amsterdam, 1994; Social information processing and aggressive and depressive symptomatology: A clinical sample, Conference on Human Development, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994; Social relationships, social beliefs, and aggression, Discussion of a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association Toronto, Canada, 1993; Effects of intervention on children at high risk for conduct problems, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, 1993; Parent and child social information processing and dysfunctional reaction patterns, Discussion presented as part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, 1993; Predictive effects of boys' aggression and family conflict on boys' psychopathology at two age levels, Annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Santa Fe, NM, 1993; Social information processing and the development of aggression, Annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX, 1992; Children's daycare history and kindergarten adjustment, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, 1991; On the empirical basis for preventive intervention with high-risk children, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, 1991; Prevention of conduct disorder, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Zandvoort, Holland, 1991; Effect of prior expectations on aggressive boys' information processing of behavior in a dyadic interaction task, Annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Zandvoort, Holland, 1991; Behavioral and social information processing predictors of stability in children's sociometric status, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Minneapolis, MN, 1991; Developmental assessment of distorted perceptions in dyadic interactions of severely aggressive, moderately aggressive, and nonaggressive boys, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New York, N.Y, 1991; Deficient social cognitive processes of severely aggressive and moderately aggressive boys, Part of symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 1991; Dysfunctional family and social-cognitive processes with aggressive boys, Annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Costa Mesa, CA, 1990; Parental endorsement of aggression and children's social information processing, Southeastern Conference on Human Development, Richmond, VA, 1990; A behavioral analysis of victims of peer aggression in boys' play groups, Southeastern Conference on Human Development, Richmond, VA, 1990; Reactive and proactive aggression: Subtypes of externalizing disorders in children, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, 1990; Parental conflict strategies and children's social preferral in kindergarten, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, 1990; Peer relations and developmental Psychopathology, Annual conference of the Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Miami, FL, 1989; Types of aggressive relationships in boys' playgroups, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO, 1989; Rejected children's expectations and perceptions of peer interaction, Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, 1989; Bully-victim relationships in boys' playgroups, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, 1989; The regulation and function of aggression in dyadic relationships, Part of a symposium at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Jyvaskkyla, Finland, 1989; Children's evaluations of peer entry and conflict situations: Social strategies, goals, and outcome expectations, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Social Competence in Development Perspective, Les Arcs, France, 1988; Estimating comorbidity of depression and aggression based on multiple informants, Annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA, 1988; Social information processing and moral judgments, Annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA, 1988; Consortium on school-based promotion of social competence, Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA., 1988; Peer status and aggression, Part of a symposium of the biennial meeting of the Society of Research in Children Development, Baltimore, MD, 1987; Family and peer systems: Modes of linkage, Discussion presented as part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, 1987; Peer reputation and behavioural antecedent correlates of peer status as a function of groups' behavioural characteristics, Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC, 1987; Focus of social attention among children varying in a social status, Part of a symposium entitled "Aggression, peer relations, and social maladjustment in children," at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA, 1987; Aggression in context: The development of aggressive dyadic relationships in children's peer groups, Part of a symposium entitled "Aggression, peer relations, and social maladjustment in children," at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA, 1987; Predicting mortality from scores on the Cook-Medley Scale: A follow-up study of 118 lawyers, Meeting of the American Psychosomatics Society, Philadelphia, PA, 1987; High aggressive and low aggressive rejected children: Peer and teacher ratings of social behavior at time of identification and at one-year follow-up, Annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA, 1987; The origins of social competence in children's early experiences, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, 1986; Social-experiential and social-cognitive predictors of aggressive behavior in preschool children, Biennial meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Human Development, Nashville, TN, 1986; A social information processing approach to distinguishing between hostile and instrumental aggressive behavior problems in rejected children, Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 1986; Continuity and prediction of social preference and status: A one-year follow-up study, Annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Chicago, IL, 1986; Social information processing and sexual aggression, NIMH Conference on Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders, Tampa, FL, 1986; The social-cognitive and affective world of peer neglected and rejected children, Discussion presented at the meeting of the Merrill-Palmer Society, 1986; The affective bases of hostile attributional biases among aggressive children, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Toronto, Canada, 1985; Assessment and training of social skills, Part of a symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Toronto, Canada, 1985; A taxonomy of problematic social situations for children, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, 1984; Social competence and friendship in children and adolescents, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, 1984; Observations of peer group entry by socially rejected and popular children in the school setting, Eighth Biennial Conference on Human Development, Athens, GA, 1984; Training aggressive children in how to process social information, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, 1984; Social information processing components of social competence, Part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Philadelphia, PA, 1984; Continuity and change in children's social status over a five year period, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Detroit, MI, 1983; Social cognitive components of behavior disorders in children, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Detroit, MI, 1983; Information processing mechanisms in aggressive children, Part of a symposium on Peer Relations of Children with Behavior or Learning Problems at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Anaheim, CA, 1983; Assessment of intention-cue detection skills in socially deviant children, World Congress on Behavior Therapy, Washington, DC, 1983; Multivariate information theory analysis of children's peer group entry behavior, Annual meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Los Angeles, CA, 1982; Children's competence at persuasion: The relation between cognitive skills and behavioral performance, Annual meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Los Angeles, CA, 1982; Attributional bias in aggressive children, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, 1981; Behavioral antecedents of peer social rejection and isolation, Symposium on Methodological and substantive issues in the observation of peer interaction at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, 1981; The role of social cognition in the development of aggressive behavior in children, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, San Francisco, CA, 1979; Behavioral patterns among socially rejected, average, and popular children, Fifth Biennial Southeastern Conference on Human Development, Atlanta, GA, 1978

Other:: Predictors and gender differences in children’s relationally aggressive response generation, Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; The development of attention problems in sexually abused children: A path analytic model, Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; Early parenting antecedents of parent school involvement, Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; Individual, peer, and familial predictors of dimension of psychopathology in samples of high risk and normative youth, Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; Trajectories in harsh discipline during middle childhood: Antecedents and developmental outcomes, Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005; Predictors of externalizing behavior in sexually abused children, Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2004; Fast Track and other effective prevention programs for at-risk youth, Panel presentation and discussion session to the City/County Violence Prevention Committee, Durham, NC, September, 2001; Individual differences in and contextual influences on the chronicity of peer victimization, Poster presented at the meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2001; Developmental change in the correlates of peer victimization: A longitudinal analysis, Poster presented at the meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2001; Predicting long-term use of costly services by children at risk for behavioral disorders, Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2001; Progress and results of the Fast Track Program, Presentation made to the Administrative Team of Durham Public Schools, Durham, NC, May, 2000; CASE Media Fellowship Program on Strengthening America’s Youth, 1998; Vice President Al Gore’s Annual Family Re-Union Conference on Fathers in America, 1993

Doctoral Theses Directed: Joseph Crozier, (August, 2003 - May, 2008); Julie Kaplow, (2003)

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Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University

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Kenneth A. Dodge

Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University