Emerging Directions in Child Maltreatment Research: Perspectives on Theory, Research, Practice, and PolicyISBN: 978-1-4051-6723-9
Paperback
228 pages
November 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Jodi Quas is Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses broadly on memory development and children’s involvement in the legal system. She has published extensively on such topics as the effects of stress on children’s memory, children’s eyewitness capabilities and suggestibility, and the consequences of legal involvement on child victims/witnesses. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The theoretical and applied significance of her work has been recognized by early career awards from the American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41 of the American Psychological Association) and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association).