Research Interests

Sociocultural and environmental factors that influence early Spanish-English dual language development.
Caregiver-centered interventions that promote positive communication and educational outcomes of young Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs).

Open Grants

Closed Grants

eHealth Coping Skills Training and Coach Support for Women Whose Partner Has a Drinking Problem
Funding period: 2016–2021
Subaward PI: Dr. Brian Danaher (MPI Dr. Robert Rychtarik, University at Buffalo)
Funded by: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Grant number: 1 R01 AA024118
Estimates suggest that nearly 1 in 20 adult women in the U.S. is married to or living with a partner with an alcohol use disorder (AUD). In this project, we are developing and testing a web based version of StopSpinningMyWheels (SSMW), an empirically tested coping skills training program. The project includes an RCT with 450 women with an AUD partner to test the therapeutic benefit of being randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Web SSMW plus coach support calls, Web SSMW without coach support, or a usual Web comparison condition that presents a compilation of free Web information.