Clinical Psychometric Lab

1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, children & adults)
Measurement issues (see below); theoretical models (state regulation deficit)

2. Measurement (psychometrics) in clinical psychology
Applications of structural equation models (SEM; including structural circumplex models) and item response theory (IRT) in clinical psychology: evaluation of psychometric properties of clinical measures, especially DSM-IV based measures; scale development and revision; invariance issues across clinical and non-clinical groups, sex, culture and ethnic groups; evaluation of trait, method and error variances

3. Biological theories of personality
 Relevance of Gray's reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) of personality to the development of social cognitions and relational schemas (family, attachment, relationship with parents), and Beck's cognitive model and therapy for the affective, mood and impulsive control disorders, and anger

4. Resilience and positive psychology
Applications of resiliency models involving family as the protective factor