Biosocial Interplay During Elementary School
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Pol A.C. van Lier, Ph.D., is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Dr. van Lier conducts research and teaches courses on the interplay between environment and biological influences on children and adolescent pathways to psychopathology. The emphasis is on the impact of school and family social environmental stressors on children and adolescent stress-, and self-regulation, and the neuropsychological, neurological, psychophysiological and genetic mechanism underlying this. His research is currently funded by the European Research Council and Netherlands Scientific Organization. He has published in journals spanning developmental psychopathology, developmental, psychiatric, neurological, school and family sciences.
Kirby Deater-Deckard, Ph.D., is Professor of Developmental Science, and Neuroscience and Behavior, and Director of the Healthy Development Initiative, in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 2008. Dr. Deater-Deckard conducts research and teaches courses on biological and environmental influences on individual differences in social-emotional and cognitive development in childhood and adolescence. The emphasis in this work is on intergenerational transmission, gene-environment mechanisms, neurological and physiological development, and home and school environments. His publications span developmental and family sciences and developmental psychopathology areas, with research currently and previously funded by NSF and NIH. With Robin Panneton, he co-edited the volume, Parental Stress and Early Child Development (Springer, 2017).