Iowa State University

Marcia Michaels

Selected Publications:

Michaels, M. L., & Demor, K. (2002). Increasing graduate students’ interest in research through directed contact with scholars at other universities. Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family, 2(2), 1-5.

Prelow, H. M., Michaels, M. L., Reyes, L., Knight, G. P., & Barrera, M. (2002). Measuring coping in low income European American, African American, and Mexican American adolescents: An examination of measurement equivalence. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 15, 135-147.

Barrera, M., Prelow, H. M., Dumka, L. E., Gonzales, N. A., Knight, G. P., Michaels, M. L., Roosa, M. W.,& Tein, J. Y. (2002). Pathways from family economic conditions to adolescents’ distress: Supportiveparenting, stressors outside the family, and deviant peers. Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 135-152.

Michaels, M. L. (2003). Preventing marital distress in remarried couples. Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, 2, 29-42.

Michaels, M. L. (2000). The Stepfamily Enrichment Program: A preliminary evaluation using focus groups. American Journal of Family Therapy, 28, 61-73.

Research Interests:
Prevention and treatment of mental health problems, therapeutic assessment and evaluation of treatment, contextual influences on mental health, healthy family relationships, divorce/remarriage, cross-cultural research.

Teaching Interests:
Introduction to Individual & Family Intervention; Abnormal Child Psychology; Interpersonal Relationships; Stress & Coping; Divorce & Remarriage Issues; Prevention of Mental Health Problems; Readings in Family Studies; Prevention Research with Children; Marriage and Family.

Professional Organizations:
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, National Council on Family Relations.

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