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Center for Family Studies
(http://familystudies.ucr.edu/)

The Center for Family Studies promotes significant advances in family therapy, research, and treatment by emphasizing an interdisciplinary approaches to family issues. By providing a forum for an interdisciplinary dialogue, the interplay across different levels of analysis can be more clearly understood.

Director

Dr. Ross Parke
Distinguished Professor Psychology
Office: Olmsted 1430
Phone: (909) 787-4144
e-mail: ross.parke@ucr.edu

Goals

  • Increasing the dialogue between academic researchers and others concerned with family life within the community.
  • Providing a forum for the dissemination of advances in knowledge about contemporary family (conferences, symposia, workshops, and speaker's series).
  • Developing a research and policy agenda for family issues.
  • Involving graduate students in research opportunities.

Research

The Center for Family Studies takes and interdisciplinary approach to family issues. A number of scholars from UCR departments: Anthropology, Education, History, Psychology, and Sociology research how family members influence each other, how social and cultural influences affect families, and how these influences may change not only across culture, but across historical periods.

The Center for Family Studies explores issues pertaining to the associations between Southern California's diverse cultures, ethnicity, and family life.

The Center for Family Studies will establish collaborative arrangements with other institutions (i.e. Childhelp USA) to facilitate research and define policy priorities.

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