Friday, January 31, 2014

Upcoming Event from UMass Center for Research on Families

Language and the Early Development of Emotion Regulation


Presenters: 
PAMELA COLE, PH. D. Liberal Arts Research Professor of Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Cole is jointly trained in clinical and developmental psychology; earning a MA at the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University.
Event Dates: 
Thu 27th, February 2014


Event Time: 
4:00pm
Location: 
Campus Center, Room 917

This lecture will address the role of both parental language input and toddler language ability as contributors to the development of emotion regulation by the time a child is preschool age. Cole is widely published in the area of the development of emotion regulation in early childhood and its implications for the development of both child competence as well as child psychopathology. Her work includes attention to cross-cultural variations in emotion and its socialization, and in the underlying role of the young developing brain in response to the child’s emotional environment.
During her visit to campus, Dr. Cole will also be consulting with Dr. Elizabeth Harvey on her project entitled, “A Longitudinal Study of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Children with Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” which she is preparing for submission to the National Institutes of Health.
The Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture series brings internationally recognized speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. The lecture series began in 1999 through an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson.

Fees: 
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.