Dr. Fisher has been a member of the APA Ethics Committee, and has also served as Chair of the NYS Board for Licensure in Psychology, the Society for Research in Child Development Committee for Ethical Conduct in Child Development Research, and the National Task Force on Applied Developmental Science. Dr. Fisher served for fifteen years as the founding Director of Fordham University's doctoral training specialty in Applied Developmental Psychology and is a founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science. The National Science Foundation has also supported Dr. Fisher's empirical work on attitudes of ethnic minority parents and youth toward ethical issues in adolescent risk research. Dr. Fisher was just awarded a 3-year grant from the National Institute for Child Health and Development for a project designed to assess and enhance the research consent capacity of adults with mental retardation. The American Psychological Association's Ethic's Code and the validation of sexual abuse in day care settings.
College students weigh the costs and benefits of deceptive research.
The view from urban adolescents. The study of African American and Latin American children and youth. This course will provide an introduction to the roles and activities of professionals in applied developmental psychology.