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Home  People Brittany L. Rhoades, M.S.
Brittany L. Rhoades, M.S.
PAMT Pre-Doctoral Fellow, The Methodology Center and The Prevention Research Center
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EPISCenter
The Pennsylvania State University
206 Towers Building
University Park, PA 16802
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814-863-2280 |
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814-865-3936
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| Education: |
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Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, expected 2009 (Human Development and Family Studies)
M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, 2005 (Human Development and Family Studies)
B.S., University of Arizona -- Tucson, 2002 (Psychology)
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HD FS 129 (Summer 2008): Introduction to Human Development & Family Studies
HD FS 229 (Summer 2007): Infancy and Child Development
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Person-centered methodological strategies: I am interested in using person-centered analytic approaches, specifically latent class analysis to identify multi-dimensional risk profiles with the ultimate goal of better understanding the association between early risk factors and complex developmental outcomes in children and identifying subgroups of at-risk children for targeted interventions.
Social-emotional competence during early childhood: Substantively, I am interested in examining how early patterns of poor self-regulation, deficits in social-emotional competence and academic failure in early childhood relate to engagement in future risk behaviors and the processes by which early preventive interventions can impact these long-term outcomes.
Implementation & dissemination research (also referred to as Type II Translational research): Finally, I am also interested in how interventions move from efficacy trials into real-world settings. This work focuses on the identification of the factors that predict the successful implementation and wide-scale dissemination of preventive interventions.
Methodology Center Research Areas: latent class analysis
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I work with Stephanie Lanza of The Methodology Center on using latent class analysis models to assess multiple levels of risk in several large samples of children including the Fast Track project, the Family Life Project, Ad Health, and ECLS-K.
Also, I am currently working on my dissertation, entitled "Demographic and Familial Risks for Early Executive Function Development: Contributions of a person-centered perspective," where I am using LCA to examine the association between different profiles of early demographic and familial risk at 2 and 6 months and 36-month executive function development using data from the Family Life Project, a large multi-site longitudinal study of young children from birth through 48 months old.
I also continue to work with Mark Greenberg & Celene Domitrovich on a project, which is a collaborative effort between the Harrisburg School District and the Penn State Prevention Center focused on longitudinally evaluating an early childhood initiative aimed at improving the school readiness and long-term achievement of urban, disadvantaged preschoolers.
After completing my dissertation in May, I will join Brian Bumbarger at Penn State's EPISCenter (Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center) where I will focus on Type II translational research examining the factors associated with successful large-scale implementation and dissemination of evidence-based programs across the state of Pennsylvania as the Evaluation Research Specialist.
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Peer-reviewed Papers
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Rhoades, B. L., Greenberg, M. T., & Domitrovich, C. E. (in press). The contribution of inhibitory control to preschoolers’ social-emotional competence. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
Patrick, M. E., Rhoades, B. L., Small, M., & Coatsworth, J. D. (2008). Faith-placed parenting intervention. Journal of Community Psychology, 36, 74-80.
Coffman, D. L., Patrick, M. E., Palen, L., Rhoades, B. L., & Ventura, A. K. (2007). Why do high school seniors drink? Implications for a targeted approach to intervention. Prevention Science, 8, 241-248.
Rhoades, B. L. & Maggs, J. L. (2006). Do academic and social goals predict planned alcohol use among college-bound high school graduates? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35 (6), 913-923.
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Greenberg, M. T. & Rhoades, B. L. (in press). State-of-Science Review: Self Regulation and Executive Function-What can teachers and schools do? Foresight project: Mental Capital and Mental Wellbeing, United Kingdom: Office of Science and Innovation.
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