Introduction
W. Andrew "Drew" Rothenberg is a child clinical psychologist and Research Scientist at the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy. His research is focused on the development of adaptive and maladaptive parenting practices and family processes across ontogeny, culture and generations. Utilizing a developmental psychopathology framework, he examines how parenting practices, family dynamics, and evidence-based mental health interventions affect normal and abnormal child development. His program of research has three aims. First, he explores how maladaptive family processes can be passed from one generation to the next. Second, he identifies strategies to prevent the intergenerational transmission of these processes in different culture contexts. Third, he implements these preventative interventions in medically underserved communities that need them the most.
Expert
William Andrew “Drew” Rothenberg is a child clinical psychologist who earned his PhD in Psychology & Neuroscience, with a minor in Quantitative Psychology, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. He completed his predoctoral residency at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Mailman Center for Child Development, where he continues to serve as a Co-Investigator on projects disseminating, implementing, and evaluating school- and family-focused, evidence-based interventions to improve children’s psychosocial health. He also currently serves as a Research Scientist at the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy where he collaborates with colleagues investigating child mental health in 9 countries on 5 continents. As a developmental scientist, he has extensive experiencing applying longitudinal and ecological momentary assessment methods to understand how child-environmental transactions impact child mental health over ontogeny, across cultures, and across generations. As a clinician, Drew has experiencing treating children and families in cognitive-behavioral school-based and family-based intervention programs to promote child psychosocial health. Drew is passionate about designing parenting and school-based intervention programs that can be implemented in cultures all over the world to help parents and their children grow closer together. Over the course of his career, he has provided therapeutic or assessment services to over 500 families and has published over 30 scientific articles and book chapters.
Fields of expertise: Culture, Disability, Health and wellbeing, Youth