Psychology Department

Faculty

Angela Clarke

Angela T. Clarke, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Office Phone: (610)-436-3136
Office Room #: PB 39
Email: aclarke@wcupa.edu
Preferred means of contact: Phone, email, in person: Email is the best method for contacting me.

 

 

Fall 2011 Office Hours:

Mondays: 1-2

Wednesdays:  1-2

Fridays:  1-4

Courses typically taught:

  • Theories of Personality (PSY 257)
  • Abnormal Psychology (PSY 375)
  • Research in Psychology (PSY 410)
  • Child & Adolescent Psychopathology (PSY 519)

Brief description of research interests:

My research focuses on the use of community partnership approaches for developing sustainable, community-based interventions to prevent mental health disorders among youth living in poverty. A current project involves the use of action research to adapt an evidence-based depression prevention program for African American adolescents exposed to the chronic stress of urban poverty and to evaluate it's effectiveness when delivered in the novel setting of neighborhood after-school programs.

Representative publications:

1. Power, T. J., Eiraldi, R. B., Clarke, A. T., Mazzuca, L. B., & Krain, A. L. (2005). Improving mental health service utilization for children and adolescents. School Psychology Quarterly, 20, 187-205.

2. Clarke, A. T. (2006). Coping with interpersonal stress and psychosocial health among children and adolescents: A meta-analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 11-24.

3. Eiraldi, R. B., Mazzuca, L. B., Clarke, A. T., & Power, T. J. (2006). Service utilization among ethnic minority children with ADHD: A model of help-seeking behavior. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 33, 607-622.

4. Kostanecka, A., Power, T., Clarke, A., Watkins, M., Hausman, C. L., & Blum, N. J. (2008). Behavioral health screening in urban primary care settings: Construct validity of the PSC-17. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 29, 124-128.

5. Jones, H. A., Clarke, A. T., & Power, T. J. (2008, Spring). Expanding the Concept of Intervention Integrity: A Multidimensional Model of Participant Engagement. In Balance: The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Newsletter, 23, 4-5.

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