“Translational research in the behavioral and social sciences addresses how basic behavioral processes inform the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and delivery of services for mental illness, and, conversely, how knowledge of mental illness increases our understanding of basic behavioral processes.”

Amy M. Smith Slep, Ph.D.

Dr. Slep’s research focuses on understanding the interconnected concepts of anger, conflict, aggression, and abuse in families with the ultimate goals of (a) determining what distinguishes adaptive from destructive processes and (b) developing effective interventions. Her work is strongly grounded in social learning theory and is informed by basic research on emotion, social cognition, self-control, and aggression. Ultimately, she is interested in identifying and exploiting the naturally occurring mechanisms of change and outcomes to serve as the basis for more powerful interventions. Most of her work to date has focused on testing hypotheses that build toward an integrated theory of the etiology and maintenance of child and partner abuse. To serve as a foundation for such work, she maintains a strong interest in addressing methodological and measurement gaps that exist in this area. Finally, she is committed to translating the findings from her basic studies into effective prevention and treatment, and extending this work into real world settings. Since obtaining her Ph.D in 1995, Dr. Slep has served as the PI or co-PI on eight federally-funded studies. Her work is currently funded by NIMH, CDC, DoD, and USAF.

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