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A. Michele Lease, Ph.D.
I currently serve as Associate Professor of EPIT at UGA and Director of the School Psychology Clinic. I also serve as an Associate Editor for School Psychology Quarterly. My research focuses on issues related to the perceived organization of children's peer groups, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding types of popular children, including the various types of influence strategies used by popular children and their impact on same-age peers in the school setting. Currently, I teach Psychoeducational Interventions with Children and Adolescents, Developmental Psychopathology, Practicum, and Prevention and Remediation of Classroom Behavior Problems for non-majors.
E-mail Address: mlease@uga.edu
Current and Past Graduate Students on the Research Team:
Ethan Schilling
Research Interests: pediatric psychology and associated social adjustment issues
Jaclyn Wetherington
Research Interests: pragmatic aspects of communication patterns in children’s peer groups; athleticism and social status
John Brown
Research Interests: developmental precursors to the formation of romantic relationships
Mary Lutz
Research Interests: impact of temperament on children’s sense of belongingness within their social clique
Lindsay Masland
Research Interests: peer influence on academic achievement motivation
Kyongboon Kwon
Dissertation (2008): Peer nomination patterns and social identification in the context of children’s cliques in middle childhood.
Thesis (2006). Clique membership and social adjustment: The contribution of the type of clique to children’s self-reported adjustment.
Justin Miller
Dissertation (2007; co-directed with P. Schwanenflugel): The development of prosodic text reading as a dimension of oral reading fluency in early elementary school children.
Thesis (2005;directed by P. Schwanenflugel): The role of complex prosody in the oral reading of young children
Colby Butzon
Dissertation (2007; co-directed with C. Halverson and R. Martin): Teacher-rated personality types in middle childhood: Prediction of peer-rated social processes.
Jamilia Blake
Dissertation (2003): A contextual study of gender-normative and -nonnormative aggression in middle childhood
Beth Meisinger
Dissertation (2006; co-directed with P. Schwanenflugel): The contributions of text reading fluency to reading comprehension: Normative findings and implications for the assessment of reading disabilities.
Thesis (2002; co-directed with P. Schwanenflugel): Quality of the interactions during partner reading
Amanda Dix Dyer
Dissertation (2006): Consideration of potential moderators of the relation between low social dominance and emotional adjustment: Friendship, temperament, and parent-child relationships.
Thesis (2004): Relation between social dominance and indices of maladjustment.
William Lindstrom
Dissertation (2005): A cross-validation of a multidimensional conceptualization of preadolescent social status.
Thesis (2003): Athletics and social status among elementary school girls.
Karen Talley Musgrove
Dissertation (2003): The clinical significance of social withdrawal.
Thesis (2001): Subtypes of social withdrawal: An examination of differences in social status, social adjustment, and peer-reported behavior.
Jennifer Axelrod
Dissertation (2000): Behavioral and social correlates of social dominance.
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