Patricia Kerig

My research concerns risk and protective mechanisms underlying the association between interpersonal adversities and biopsychosocial outcomes for young persons. As a developmental psychopathologist, my interests span across developmental periods, from early childhood to emerging adulthood. My most recent studies have focused on adolescents involved or at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system in order to investigate the emotional, cognitive, interpersonal, and psychophysiological factors that might explain the association between childhood trauma exposure and adolescent delinquency. I also have abiding interests in gender differences in developmental psychopathology as well as in the study of family processes that provide the contexts in which youth development takes place, for better or worse.