The School
- Students
Members of our lab have the opportunity to be trained in the following areas:
- Video Coding (e.g., children’s emotion regulation strategies, attention, parenting strategies, child compliance)
- Transcribing
- Data Entry
- Administering Academic and Achievement Assessments to Preschoolers
- School Observations
- Research-Oriented Lab Tasks
- Participant Screening
Research Assistants in our lab typically do a 2-semester/10-hour weekly commitment for 3 credit hours. Students are also encouraged to participate in our lab if they are just seeking research experience, without receiving credit.
See our contact information tab at the bottom of each page to reach out to us if interested.
Summer Experience
For those students who do not have availability during the academic year, we highly encourage you to consider applying for a position as a counselor or research assistant during our STP-PreK program.
Counselors can either receive credit or a stipend for their involvement in the STP. Research Assistants have the opportunity to receive credit hours for their time commitment as well.
If you are interested in applying or finding out more about training opportunities at the Center for Children and Families, please visit Training & Education.
- Teachers
Disruptive behavior problems and ADHD represent the most common referral/diagnosis in regular and special education classrooms.
Yet, teachers in regular classrooms receive limited training on evidence-based strategies to manage such disruptive behavior problems in the classroom.Dr. Graziano routinely provides in-service trainings to teachers. In 2018, he provided a 4-hour in-service training at Divine Savior Academy for 50 teachers ranging from prek-3 to 5th grade
Strategies taught in these workshops include teacher-child interaction therapy (TCIT) which adapts strategies used in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).
TCIT strategies focus on enhancing the teacher-child relationship, increasing teacher attention to positive behaviors and decreasing attention to negative attention seeking behaviors.
Other classroom behavioral strategies taught include setting up the classroom for success as well as the use of classroom wide contingency systems.
Dr. Graziano also helps teachers learn how to set up effective daily report cards as home-school communication is critical towards helping improve children’s classroom functioning.
Please contact Dr. Graziano directly if you are interested in these services.