Stony Brook University (1972)
Professor, Clinical Psychology
Office Hours: Flexible, by appointment
Phone Number: (631) 632-7833
e-mail: susan.oleary@stonybrook.edu
Website: http://www.psychology.stonybrook.edu/pow-/
Areas of Interest: Parenting practices, particularly maternal discipline. Prevention and early parenting intervention with respect to oppositional and defiant toddlers. However, she is no longer admitting graduate students.
Current Research:
Dr. O'Leary is interested in clarifying which parenting and discipline strategies are effective and which are not; identifying environmental and parent characteristics that mitigate against parents' developing and/or implementing effective strategies; teaching at-risk parents to manage challenging child behaviors successfully before their children develop behavior problems; and developing and evaluating early interventions for parents whose toddlers are defiant, disobedient, and aggressive.
Recent Publications:
Del Vecchio, T., & O’Leary, S. G. (2006). Antecedents of toddler aggression: Dysfunctional parenting in mother-toddler dyads. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35, 194-202.
O’Leary, S. G., & Slep, A. M. S. (2006). Precipitants of partner aggression. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 344-347.
Slep, A. M. S., Heyman, R. E., Williams, M., Van Dyke, C., & O’Leary, S. G. (2006). Using random telephone sampling to recruit generalizable samples for family violence studies. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 680-689.
Rhoades, K. A., & O’Leary, S. G. (2006). Factor structure and validity of the Parenting Scale. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36, 137-146.
Slep, A. M. S., & O’Leary, S. G. (2007). Multivariate models of mothers’ and fathers’ aggression toward their children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 739-751.
O’Leary, K. D., Slep, A. M. S., & O’Leary, S. G. (2007). Multivariate models of men’s and women’s partner aggression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 752-764.
Del Vecchio, T., & O’Leary, S. G. (2008). Predicting maternal discipline responses to early child aggression: The role of cognitions and affect. Parenting, 8, 240-256.
Del Vecchio, T., Walter, A. L., & O’Leary, S. G. (2009). Affective and physiological factors predicting maternal response to infant crying. Infant Behavior and Development, 32,177-122.
Dowling, C. B., Slep, A. M. S., O’Leary, S. G. (in press). Understanding preemptive parenting: Relations with toddlers' misbehavior, overreactive and lax discipline, and praise. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology,
Slep, A. M. S., & O’Leary, S. G. (in press). Distinguishing risk profiles among parent-only, partner-only, and dually-perpetrating physical aggressors. Journal of Family Psychology,
