Patrick T Davies Editor & Author

Patrick T. Davies (Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1995) is an Associaite Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. His primary research interests relate to understanding children's normal and abnormal development in the context of family relationships and processes. He is a co-author (with Mark Cummings) of Children and Marital Conflict (1994) and Developmental Psychopathology and Family Process (2000).

Gordon Harold (Ph.D., 1998, Cardiff University) is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at Cardff University, Wales. His primary research interests relate to understanding the effects of interparental conflict on children's emotional and behavioral development, the genetic basis of children's emotional and behavioral problems, and methodological issues associated with the analysis of longitudinal family data. He is co-author with Jan Prior and Jenny Reynolds of the book Not in Front of the Children? (2001).

Marcie C. Goeke-Morey (Ph.D., 1999, University of Notre Dame) is a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include the socio-emotional development of children within the family context, with particular emphasis on the influence of fathers and the constructive and positive elements of family life and relationships.

E. Mark Cummings (Ph.D., 1977, University of California, Los Angeles) is professor of psychology and the Notre Dame Chair in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests are broadly concerned with relations between adaptive and maladaptive family functioning and children's normal development and development of risk for psychopathology. Dr. Cummings is co-author of a half dozen books, including (with Patrick T. Davies) of Children and Marital Conflict (1994) and Developmental Psychopathology and Family Process (2000).