Barbara Fiese, Ph.D.

Psychology Department Chair

Education

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Lewis and Clark College, BS
Villanova University, MS
University of Illinois-Chicago, PhD

Certification/ licensure

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NYS Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Research Interest

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Dr. Fiese's research program focuses on family factors that promote health and well-being in children. She gains access to the family process through the study of family routines, rituals, and stories. With support from the National Institute of Health and various private foundations, she works with talented undergraduates, graduate students and colleagues across the country to identify family factors associated with academic achievement, identity, and mental health. Her current work focuses on family factors that promote medical adherence and well being in children with asthma.

Representative Publications

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Fiese, B. H., & Wamboldt, F. S. (2004). Coherent accounts of coping with a chronic illness: Convergences and divergences in family measurement using a narrative analysis. Family Process, 42, 3-15.

Fiese, B. H., & Wamboldt, F. S. (2003). Tales of pediatric asthma management: Family based strategies related to medical adherence and health care utilization. Journal of Pediatrics, 143, 457-62.

Fiese, B. H. (2002), Family matters: A systems view of family effects on children's cognitive health. In R. J. Sternberg and E. L. Grigorenko (Eds.), Environmental effects on cognitive abilities. (pp. 39-57). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Fiese, B. H., Tomcho, T., Douglas, M. Josephs, K. Poltrock, S., & Baker, T. (2002). Fifty years of research on family rituals: Cause for celebration? Journal of Family Psychology, 16, 381-390.

Fiese, B. H., Sameroff, A. J., Grotevant, H. D., Wamboldt, F. S., Dickstein, S., & Fravel, D. L. (2001). Observing families through the stories they tell: A multidimensional approach. In P. Kerig and K. Lindahl (Eds.) Family observational coding systems: Resources for systemic research. (pp. 259-272). Mahwah, NJ: LEA

Fiese, B. H., & Wamboldt, F. S. (2001). Family routines, rituals, and asthma management: A proposal for family based strategies to increase treatment adherence. Families, Systems, and Health, 18, 405-418.