Autor: Michel Boivin

Michel Boivin, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Canada Research Chair in Child Social Development at Laval University in Quebec. He is director of Laval University”s Research Unit on Children”s Psychosocial Maladjustment and of the Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Early Child Development, a pan-Canadian consortium. Dr. Boivin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research focuses on the biological, psychological, and social components of child development. He has played a central role in the creation and follow-up of large population-based longitudinal studies of children, including the Quebec Newborn Twin Study and the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development. Karen L. Bierman, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Child Study Center at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). She was the founding director of the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium at Penn State, and has also served as director of Penn State”s Social Science Research Institute. Dr. Bierman”s research focuses on child social-emotional development and the design and evaluation of school- and community-based prevention programs that promote social-emotional learning and school readiness. She has served as an educational advisor to a number of organizations devoted to improving early education for disadvantaged children, including Head Start and Sesame Workshop.