Julie Wargo Aikins
Julie Wargo Aikins
Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Program: Clinical
E-mail: Julie.Aikins@uconn.edu
Office: BOUS 167
Office Phone: (860) 486-3523
Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020
Preferred Means of Contact: Email
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Research Interests:
- Peer relations
- Parent-child relationships
- Attachment theory
- Transitions
- Adolescence
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Detailed description: My research focuses on the role of
peer relationships in exacerbating or compensating for histories
of negative parent-child relationships and the subsequent influence
on adolescent psychosocial adjustment.
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Undergraduate courses:
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Graduate courses:
- Practicum in Child Psychotherapy
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Representative Publications:
- Wargo Aikins, J., Bierman, K., & Parker, J. (In Press).
Pre-transition Influences on Social and Global Adjustment Following
the Transition to Junior High School. Social Development.
- Prinstein, M & Wargo Aikins, J. (2004). The role of moderators
in clarifying the association between peer rejection and depression.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 32, 147-158.
- Cassidy, J., Wargo Aikins, J., Jacobson Chernoff, J. (2003).
The role of self-perception in children's peer selections.
Developmental Psychology, 3, 495-508.
- Howes, C. & Wargo Aikins, J. (2002). Peer relations in
the transition to adolescence. In H. W. Reese & R. Kail
(Eds.) Advances in Child Development and Behavior. NY:
Academic.
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