The Curtis Center Welcomes Dr. Cristina Bares
The Curtis Center is delighted to announce its first postdoctoral fellow, Cristina Bares, MSW, PhD, effective September 1, 2009. Dr. Bares received her PhD from the U-M SSW Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Developmental Psychology in 2007. Her research on children's cognition focuses on examining how children's naive theories of illness (both in health and mental health) can inform health communications and the degree to which children's cognitive development is compatible with the demands of cognitive behavioral therapies.
Dr. Bares will be working with Professors Himle, Delva, and faculty from the School of Medicine and Nursing examining children's cognitive abilities and the cognitive requirements of CBT therapies with the intention of developing developmentally and culturally informed interventions with racial and ethnic minority children and their families. She will also be working with Professors Delva and Grogan-Kaylor, and with faculty from the School of Public Health on various projects conducting secondary data analyses to inform the development of a cognitive and developmentally appropriate intervention for Hispanic children and adolescents who use substances.
