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CSC Child Study Center

The Child Study Center is dedicated to promoting children’s development and well-being through the dynamic integration of research, undergraduate and graduate training, and engaged community outreach.

We are housed in the Department of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts.

The Child Study Center is dedicated to promoting children’s development and well-being through the dynamic integration of research, undergraduate and graduate training, and engaged community outreach.

We are housed in the Department of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts.

Events

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Save the date!
August 20, 2025
The Ninth Annual Central PA Workshop on Evidence-Based Mental Health Services
“Breaking the Silence: Strategies for Youth Suicide Prevention”
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Memorial Lounge, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center

Save the date!
October 2, 2025
The 2025-2026 Child Study Center’s Lois Bloom Lecture
Adriana Janette Umana-Taylor, Ph.D.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
4:15 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn

News

Rina D. Eiden was part of an exploratory study that looked at the effects of Play With Me, an at-home play-based parenting intervention, on weight outcomes in middle childhood

Congratulations to Briana Ermanni, Ph.D., who previously worked in the Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab with Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Ph.D., for being an incoming SRCD State Policy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the New Hampshire Bureau of Child Development and Head Start Collaboration

Research led by Karen Bierman, Evan Pugh University Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies, found the Head Start Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) intervention led to improved teen behavior and mental health

The Society for Research in Child Development highlighted Ekjyot K. Saini, postdoc working with Douglas M. Teti, Ph.D., for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Rina D. Eiden, part of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Child Behavior and Caregiver-Child Interactions Workgroup, and team outlined methodological considerations and decision-making process for measurement selections on the HBCD Study

Student Spotlight

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Julianna Strati (’22)

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What I really like about research is that even as someone so young, I can contribute to the larger body of scientific work.