Amanda Harrist

editor of "Emerging Issues in Family and Individual Resilience: Vol. 1. Resilience Amongst Families Facing Chronic Health Challenges"

December 8, 2016

Amanda Harrist is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, focusing on child development. She received her B.A. from the University of Texas and her Ph.D. at University of Tennessee in 1991. She joined the OSU HDFS faculty in 1998, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in child development, parenting, resilience, and research methods. Dr. Harrist has received both the OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards. Her research centers on the development of children's social competence as it relates to family and peer groups. She is interested in risk and resilience of young school-age children and has pursued this most recently as principle investigator for the Families and Schools for Health Project, a study of the psychosocial factors in child obesity that has followed almost 1200 rural children from first through 12th grade.

This is the first volume in the "Emerging Issues in Individual and Family Resilience" book series. The goal of the series is to disseminate research-based knowledge about individual and family resilience across academic disciplines such as family studies, human development, psychology, sociology, social work, education, religious studies, nutritional science, law, and medicine; and to facilitate the development of evidence-based resilience practices, programs, and policies for those working with families at risk, to help them thrive. In this volume, national researchers and local practitioners address how to move the field forward when working with or doing research about families dealing with chronic illness. It takes a lifespan approach by discussing issues for families at three eras in the lifecycle: infancy/early childhood, childhood/adolescence, and adulthood/aging; it takes an applied approach in that every chapter has concrete applications for service providers or for families; and it takes a transdisciplinary approach by including authors who are social services practitioners and researchers in the fields of nursing, counseling psychology, nutritional sciences, psychiatry, and pediatric neonatology, hematology, and otolaryngology. Topics include pre-term birth, sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, obesity, pediatric transplants, foster care, breast cancer, bone health and nutrition, and dementia.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2017-honorees-b/amanda-harrist

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