ICD doctoral student selected to receive APA Dissertation Research Award

DoomJenaJena Doom, doctoral student at the Institute of Child Development, has been awarded a 2015 American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Award. The award, sponsored by the Science Directorate of APA, is given annually to encourage excellence in dissertation research in psychological science by assisting science-oriented doctoral students of psychology with research costs. Doom is currently conducting research for her dissertation, When Parents Become Ineffective Stress Buffers, Do Peers Step In? and her work has also received a Dissertation Research Grant in Developmental Psychology from APA’s Division 7, which represents developmental psychologists.