Everyday Parenting: A Professional's Guide to Building Family Management Skills
Thomas J. Dishion is a professor of psychology at Arizona State University and a research scientist at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on the role of parenting in the development of adjustment problems in children, as well as on the development of interventions for families and children, such as the Family Check-Up.Elizabeth A. Stormshak is a professor in counseling psychology in the College of Education at the University of Oregon and director of the Child and Family Center. Her primary research focus is on the prevention of problem behavior in early and middle childhood, including substance abuse, conduct problems, and academic failure.Kathryn A. Kavanagh is at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon. For the past 30 years, she has been engaged in the study of family processes related to healthy outcomes for children and adolescents and in developing effective intervention programs from those findings.