Institute of Child Development (ICD) alumna, Angela Narayan, was recently awarded the 2018 American Psychological Association’s Division 56 Early Career Award for Ethnic Minority Psychologists in Trauma Psychology. Narayan graduated from ICD with a Ph.D. in child psychology in 2015.

Division 56 grants an award annually to an ethnic/racial minority psychologist who has made exemplary contributions to the field of trauma psychology within seven years of graduating from a doctoral program.

Narayan is currently an assistant professor in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Denver, where she also directs the PROTECT Lab. The PROTECT Lab studies the transmission of parenting behaviors and family dynamics through multiple generations. The current direction of Narayan’s research is to uncover the resilience process of parents and how it affects their transition to parenthood, romantic relationships, and an infant’s health and wellbeing.

Ultimately, her goal is to determine how basic research on family adversity can help inform clinical practices with families at risk for psychological trauma, emotional and behavioral problems, and relational problems.