Professor, Associate Dean of the Graduate School Clinical Program, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Dr. Shaffer will not be accepting a new graduate student for Fall 2025 admission. Education Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2008Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science Research Interests I am trained as a developmental and clinical psychologist, and I mentor and train students in both disciplines, and in the intersections of these fields. I am interested in identifying factors that predict both positive and negative parenting behaviors, including characteristics such as self-regulation, and relevant experiences such as childhood maltreatment. My research has also focused on the evaluation of parenting assessment, including a focus on developing novel measures of parents' emotion regulation and considering the use of parenting measures in diverse groups. I have also focused specifically on processes of emotion communication in close relationships (i.e., parent-child or romantic relationships). Intervention development work in this area has involved innovative treatments promoting parental emotion coaching, for applications in many domains including the treatment of adolescent eating disorders and the prevention of emotional maltreatment.
