The primary goal of the Family Research Group is to explore ways in which parents and children influence each other in terms of clinical problems and resolutions to those problems.  Fathers and developmental psychopathology are a particular interest to our group.  Exploring racial/ethnic similarities and differences within families is also an integral part of our work.  Research projects include a wide range of topics, including the reciprocal influences of parental and child psychopathology, emotional availability of parents, mothers' and fathers' perceptions of children's emotional/behavioral problems, therapists' involvement of fathers in treatment for children's and adolescents' emotional/behavioral problems, and mothers' and fathers' perceived barriers to treatment for themselves and their children.