Natasha Cabrera

Areas of research

parent-child relationships, children's social and emotional development in different types of families and cultural/ethnic groups, school readiness, fatherhood, predictors of adaptative and maladaptive parenting, and translation of resesarch into practice and policy

Areas of student supervision

young children's cognitive and social development, including behavioral proglems, systemmic approaches to parenting in different types of families (at risk, low income, single parent), parent involvement in school settings, readiness/literacy in low income children, culture and ethnnic variation in parenting and children's development

Recent Publications:

Cabrera, N., Fagan, J., Farrie, D. (2008). Explaining the long reach of fathers’ prenatal involvement on later paternal engagement with children. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 70, 5, 1094-1107

Cabrera, N., Shannon, J., & Tamis-LeMonda, C., (2007). Fathers influence on their Children’s cognitive and emotional development: From toddlers to pre-K. Applied Developmental Science. 11(4), 208-213.

Cabrera, N., Shannon, J., West, J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2006). Parental interactions with Latino infants: Variation by country of origin and English proficiency. Child Development, 74, 1190-12

Links:

Curriculum Vitae
Family Involvement Laboratory

Email:

ncabrera@umd.edu
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