4::00
pm - 5:00 pm, Mellon Institute, Social Room (3rd Floor), Carnegie Mellon
University
"Peer
Relationships, Emotional Well-Being, and Behavior of Children with Chronic
Illness
and
Classroom Comparison Peers"
Robert
B. Noll, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, & Psychology,
University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine & Director, Child Development Unit,
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Dr.
Noll's lecture will highlight findings from 18 years of cross-sectional
and longitudinal research examining the social, emotional, and behavioral
functioning of children with chronic illnesses (BMT survivors, brain tumors,
cancer, NF1, hemophilia, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, sickle cell diseases).
This research conceptualizes severe childhood chronic illness as a stressful/traumatic
life event(s). Along with a review of key findings, he will emphasize
important methodological and design issues that are critical to the science
of pediatric psychology. Data will be integrated with existing theory
and clinical implications of these data will be discussed. Finally,
there will be a discussion of future directions for clinical practice and
research in pediatric psychology.
