Postdoctoral Associate, Duke Center for Child & Family Policy
Drew is a child clinical psychologist and developmental psychologist who currently works on the Childhood Risk Factors and Young Adult Competence project, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, as part of the Parenting Across Cultures research team. He also investigates the intergenerational impacts of several psychological and economic interventions as part of his work at Sanford.
Drew joined the Center for Child & Family Policy as a postdoctoral associate in September 2018 and now works as a Research Scientist at the Center. His research is focused on the development of adaptive and maladaptive parenting practices and family processes across ontogeny, culture and generations. Utilizing a developmental psychopathology framework, he examines how parenting practices, family dynamics, and evidence-based mental health interventions affect normal and abnormal child development. His program of research has three aims. First, he explores how maladaptive family processes can be passed from one generation to the next. Second, he identifies strategies to prevent the intergenerational transmission of these processes in different cultural contexts. Third, he implements these preventative interventions in medically underserved communities that need them the most. Drew has served hundreds of families as a child clinical psychologist and is a certified within-agency Parent-Child Interaction Therapy trainer. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed publications, 22 book chapters, and 2 books, and has been honored with an early career award for his contributions from the National Institutes of Health. In his free time, he loves traveling and hiking with his partner, enjoying the awesome Triangle restaurant scene with his friends, and watching college football.
Research Interests
- Intergenerational transmission of family and parenting processes
- Development of externalizing and internalizing behavior
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of child mental health interventions