Psychology

• PSY257 Theories of Personality
• PSY410 Research in Psychology
• PSY441 Field Experience
• PSY540 Multicultural Psychology

My research focuses on the use of community partnership approaches for developing sustainable, community-based interventions to prevent mental health disorders among youth living in communities of concentrated poverty. A recent project involved the use of action research to adapt an evidence-based depression prevention program known as RISE, for high school students exposed to the chronic stressors common in low-income urban communities and to evaluate it's effectiveness when delivered in the novel setting of a neighborhood after-school program. Currently, my research team is evaluating whether the effects of the RISE program are sustained over a 3-4 month period.

• Clarke, A. T., Marshall, S. A., Mautone, J. A., Soffer, S. L., Jones, H. A., Costigan, T., Patterson, A., Jawad, A. F., & Power, T. J. (2015). Parent attendance and homework adherence predict response to a family-school intervention for children with ADHD. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 44, 58-67. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2013.794697
• De Grace, A., & Clarke, A. T. (2012). Promising practices in the prevention of intimate partner violence among adolescents. Violence and Victims, 27, 849-859. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.27.6.849
• Clarke, A. T., Foster-Drain, R., Milligan, C. S., Shah, I, Mack, D., & Lowe, B. J. (2011). Engaging high-risk adolescents in pregnancy prevention programming: Service delivery in low-income housing developments. Journal of Children and Poverty, 17, 7-24.
• Clarke, A. T. (2006). Coping with interpersonal stress and psychosocial health among children and adolescents: A meta-analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 11-24.

The best advice (related to the college experience) that I can give students is to seize the day; take every opportunity to maximize your academic, personal, and professional experiences.