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HDFS Department Snapshot
The Department of Human Development and Family Science engages in research, teaching, outreach, and the preparation of scholars and professionals to enhance the lives of individuals and families.
Subject Matter of the Program
- the nature and process of human development over the life span
- the dynamics of marital and family relationships
- conditions in the family, community, and society that enhance, support, and impede individual
- development and family well-being
- early child development/education/day care
- dysfunctional family systems/family therapy
- family life education
Academic Programs
Undergraduate Programs:
- Family Studies
- Early Child Development and Education - will no longer admit students after March 30, 2012
- Middle Child Development and Education - will no longer admit students after March 30, 2012
Graduate Programs:
- Human Development (M.S., Ph.D.)
- Family Science (M.S., Ph.D.)
- Early Child Development/Education (M.S., Ph.D.)
- Couple and Family Therapy, AAMFT Accreditation (Ph.D.)
- Family Life Education (Ph.D.)
Enrollment
- Undergraduate Programs (800 majors)
- Family Studies - 150 majors
- Early Child Development - 500 majors
- Middle Child Development - 150 major
- Graduate Programs (80 students)
- MS Program - 30 students
- PhD Program - 50 students
Instructional-Research Laboratories/Cooperative Extension Program
- Couple and Family Therapy Clinic, Mount Hall - Serves students, faculty/staff, and community; site for supervised clinical practicum in couple and family therapy for doctoral students in a COAMFT/AAMFT accredited Ph.D. program and for clinical research, with 4 therapy and 3 observational rooms, one-way windows, audio-video technology
- Extension Education Program in Human Development and Family Science - Research-based educational programs designed to contribute to the well-being of individuals and families.
Faculty
- Suzanne Bartle-Haring - (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) Professor and Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Program, Family Therapy/Family Science. Research interests: Statistical methodology for dyadic/family data, differentiation.
- Amy E. Bonomi - (Ph.D., MPH, University of Washington) Associate Professor HDFS. Research interests: ecosocial risk factors and long-term health sequelae of intimate partner violence.
- Xin Feng - (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) Assistant Professor, Child Development. Research interests: emotion regulation and emotional problems during early and middle childhood, temperament, parenting, and culture in development.
- Stephen Gavazzi - (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) Professor, Family Science. Research interests: parent-adolescent relationships, global risk assessment of adolescent behavior problems; mental health and the family; program evaluation; outreach and engagement activities targeting the families of adolescents.
- Michael Glassman - (Ph.D., City University of New York) Associate Professor, Early Child Development/Education. Research interests: cognitive development; Vygotsky and Piaget. Dewey and Democratic education, social capitol.
- Howard Goldstein - (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) Professor, Child Development. Research interests: interventions to improve language and literacy outcomes in children in high poverty communities, language,vocabulary, and phonological awareness skills, social communication in children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
- Claire M. Kamp Dush - (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University). Assistant Professor, HDFS. Research interests: marriage/cohabitation quality and stability, romantic relationship development, family structure, well-being, family policy.
- Stephen Petrill - (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University) Professor, HDFS. Research interests: gene-environment transactions that influence cognitive and social development; adoption and how pre-adoptive and post-adoptive influences impact development.
- Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan - (Ph.D., University of Illinois) Associate Professor, Child Development/Developmental Psychology. Research interests: parenting, co-parenting, father involvement, family process, infancy/preschool years.
- Julianne Serovich - (Ph.D., University of Georgia) Chairperson, HDFS; Professor, Family Therapy/Family Science. Research interests: Privacy/disclosure, HIV/AIDS.
- Natasha Slesnick - (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) Associate Professor, Family Therapy/Clinical Psychology/Developmental Psychology. Research interests: Runaway and homeless youth; treatment/evaluation of family and ecologically-based treatments for substance abusing adolescents.
- Anastasia Snyder - (Ph.D., Penn State Univeristy, 1999 HDFS and Demography) Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science. Research interests: Family demography, youth development, transition to adulthood, rural families and youth.
- Deanna L. Wilkinson - (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Associate Professor, Adolescent Development/Family Science. Research interests: adolescent risk behaviors, identity formation, poverty and crime, interpersonal violence, transitions to adulthood, communities and social capital, illegal firearms use and violence prevention.
Professional Staff
- Eugene Folden - Ph.D.,The Ohio State University, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Contact Information
Julianne Serovich
Chairperson
Email: jserovich@ehe.osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-7705
Fax: (614) 292-4365
Department of Human Development and Family Science
The Ohio State University
135 Campbell Hall
1787 Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1295
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