Clinical interests lie in assessment and individual and conjoint family therapy.
Secondary interests pertain to socioeconomic influences on health and coronary heart disease in women. Additionally, both research and clinical interests are in organizational processes and how helping interventions can be applied to community consultation. Applied clinical research has included research with schizophrenic and borderline patients. University of South Florida Research interests include the study of how social and personality resources affect stress resistance, the study of reaction to major life stressors, health psychology, and women's health. Secondary interests include the study of depression and anxiety.