Youth and family issues, particularly adolescent development and self-esteem building blocks. Teaching includes undergraduate communications courses.
Research involves improvements in accuracy by differing types of communications techniques.
1985-87 Assistant Professor, Department of Family Studies, University of Georgia, Athens Teaching included entry level child development courses for large undergraduate classes. Research involved testing various theories of adolescent development. 1980-85 Post doctoral fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Research on children, youth and families. The description of a major field should be brief and descriptive.