JULIE CEDERBAUM is an associate professor in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Her work focuses on the impact of childhood adversity and family processes on the well-being of  youth. Using a dyad and family systems lens, her research explores the strengths and challenges experienced by diverse families, and ways in which parenting processes and behaviors (i.e. parent–child communication, parental monitoring, parent–child relationship, and parental role modeling) and positively influence mental health, reproductive health, and substance use behaviors in children, adolescents and young adults.
Her current project is Project Fatherhood (a collaboration with Children’s Institute, Inc), a longitudinal intervention study exploring ways in which knowledge and skill-building and strengthen father-child and father-partner relationships. This work is funded by a grant from the Administration of Children and Families. Other projects are focused on pregnancy and parenting and behavioral outcomes for teen mothers and their children, parenting and behavioral outcomes among adolescents of HIV-affected families, partner and parenting relationships in military families, experiences of child-welfare involved youth, and the role of social support in facilitating positive outcomes in adolescents in young adults. This work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse, Department of Defense, and Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
Professor Cederbaum serves as the current chair of the Public Health Social Work section of the American Public Health Association, and serves as the Discipline Director for two Maternal Child Health funded programs at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles: Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (CA-LEND) and Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine Center (PPSMC).
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