2011
“The world isn’t linear or additive: Pluralism and mixed methods in understanding the effects of poverty on children and parents, through New Hope, a program to reduce poverty through work supports. University of Washington, Seattle, Poverty Center, October
“Evidence farming, accommodations to disability, and tacit features of culture and sociocultural context.” (with M. Cameron Hay). Conference on Reconciling Cultural Competence & Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health Services. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. October
Conference on policy and applied human development research. NIFBE. Brixen, Italy, September
“The world is not linear or additive: applied implications of the New Hope study for mixed methods research.” Frameworks Institute conference, August, San Diego
“Mixed methods in cross cultural psychology.” Invited lecture, Society for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Istanbul Turkey July
Workshop on mixed methods in human development. University of Virginia, Institute for Educational Sciences training program. May, Charlottesville, VA
“Attachment, trust and multiple caretaking.” Lemelson/Society for Psychological Anthropology conference on Attachment, Washington State University, Spokane, May.
“The world is not linear or additive: lessons from the New Hope intervention.” (with Greg Duncan). University of Texas Festschrift for Aletha Huston, May.
“The committed fair witness: A path for doing policy and practice relevant research in psychological anthropology and human development.” Mind Medicine and Culture seminar talk, UCLA Anthropology, May
“The present and future of child development research in psychological anthropology.” Organizer. Society for Psychological Anthropology. Santa Monica, April.
“Rethinking culture change and psychosocial well being from the vantage point of late modernity.” Edward Lowe and Harold Odden, organizers. Society for Psychological Anthropology. Santa Monica, April.
“The SPA/Lemelson student fieldwork research program”. Society for Psychological Anthropology panel, Santa Monica. April
“Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in human development.” Invited workshop (with Hiro Yoshikawa), Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, March
“Fieldwork in childhood research in cross cultural psychology.” Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group/SCCR, Charleston, SC February
“The committed fair witness: a model for research in psychological anthropology.” Policy Panel, Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group/SCCR, Jill Korbin, organizer. Charleston, SC February
“If you work in this country you should not be poor, and your kids should be doing better”: The story of New Hope, a successful work support program.” UCLA California Population Center.
2010
“The Circulation of Children: Moral Panics, Children’s Rights and Anthropological Responses”, organized by the Anthropology of Children & Childhood Interest Group. Discussion. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.
“Commentary.” Reconsidering the American dream: Middle class families experience the 21st Century. UCLA CELF conference, April, 2010.
“Culture and ecology in human development research.” American Educational Research Association panel, Denver, 2010.
“Mixed methods research in human development”. Workshop at UC Riverside, March
“Mixed methods research in human development: applied, policy and adolescence”. Workshop sponsored by the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, April (with Hiro Yoshikawa).
“Socially distributed caretaking and social responsibility in childhood.” Presented at International Society for Social and Behavioral Development symposium conference, Lusaka, Zambia, July
“Socially distributed care of children: theory, overview, and current circumstances”. University of Delhi, Lady Irwin College, 40th Anniversary lecture, October
“Socially distributed care of children: theory, overview, and current circumstances”. The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda,
2009
“Transnational adoption, fosterage and orphans: Discussion commentary. American Anthropological Association meeting, Philadelphia, November.
“Ecocultural and ethnographic approaches to the study of culture and human development.” Panel on Methodological Approaches to the Study of Culture. Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, April
“Using ethnographic and quantitative evidence in the New Hope experimental intervention.” Panel on A Guide to Using Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in Assessing Intervention Effects: The Promise of Multiple Methods. Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, April
“Creating and sustaining mixed methods research teams: examples from the New Hope study.” WT Grant Foundation mixed methods conference, March, Santa Monica, CA
“New Hope for working poor families and their children: mixed methods evidence for a successful support program for parents and children.” University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, February
2008
“Mixed methods in the New Hope study.” Paper presented at the Next Generation meeting, MDRC, New York City, December
“Linking child agency and anthropological theories of human development.” Panel on Theorizing Childhood: Including the Child’s Perspective in the Anthropology of Childhood. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November
“Middle childhood in biosocial and ecocultural perspective.” Panel on Middle Childhood in Comparative Perspective: Evolutionary and Cultural Approaches. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November
“New Hope for working poor families and their children: mixed methods evidence and theory for a successful support program.” Talk at the Society for Psychological Anthropology Conference, Case Western University, November
“Higher Ground: New Hope, a successful support program for working poor families and children. Developmental Forum, UCLA Dep’t of Psychology, October
“Using mixed, qualitative and quantitative methods and designs for research: examples from cross-cultural and policy research in Kenya and the United States.” Lecture at University of Nairobi School of Medicine, Community Health, Nairobi, Kenya, October,
“Integrated mixed methods in human development and policy research: the example of the New Hope study.” Talk for Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program, UCLA, October
“Evidence in clinical decision making: linking local endogenous evidence to global exogenous evidence. Cameron Hay, first author; Thomas Weisner, Eli Lieber, Saskia Subramanian, Richard Kravitz, & Naihua Duan. SJDM, Chicago, October
“Workshop on the use of qualitative and mixed methods in the study of human development.” International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, July, Bremen, Germany
“Mixed methods research for educational policy: studying context.” Talk presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Postdoctoral Fellows and Mentors Retreat, Washington DC, July
“Local clinical knowledge and evidence farming: a mixed method study.” Pfizer Research Group, New York, June (Richard Kravitz, first author, & Naihua Duan).
“Culture, education, and mixed methods in policy research.” Inaugural lecture of the Niedersächsisches Institut für Frühkindliche Bildung und Entwicklung, Universitat Osnabrueck, May
“What is the most importance influence in human> development? And how can we measure it?” Paper presented at the Memorial Conference for Prof. Vanna Axia, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, May
“If you work, you should not be poor”: Integrated research method evidence for New Hope, a successful program of support for working poor families and their children.” Paper presented at Mixed methods conference, Northwestern University, April
“Diversity in practice: Six features of everyday activities to look for.” Early childhood symposium, UCLA Graduate School of Education. Panel II – “Supporting the Needs of Diverse Children and Families.” UCLA, April
“New Hope program mixed methods evidence for policy.“Erikson Institute, Herr Research Center for Children and Social Policy conference, ‘How can work-based policies help children?’. Milwaukee, April
“New Hope for working poor families and their children: mixed methods evidence for a successful support program for parents and children.” Institute for Educational Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, April
“Cross-cultural research: models and methods for understanding others.” Keynote symposium address, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, New Orleans, February
“Child care practices across different developmental contexts.” Discussant. Society for Cross-Cultural Research, New Orleans, February
“A problem of translation: making evidence based medicine useful in the clinic.” Society for Cross-Cultural Research, New Orleans, February. Cameron Hay, first author; Saskia Subramanian, Naihua Duan, & Richard Kravitz.
2007
“New Hope for working poor families and their children: mixed methods evidence for a successful support program for parents and children.” Case Western Reserve Univ., Schubert Child Studies Center & Dep’t of Anthropology, Cleveland, Ohio, November
“If you work you should not be poor: Mixed methods evidence from New Hope, a successful program of support for working poor families and their children. Penn State University, Population Research Center, State College, PA, November
“Higher Ground: New Hope for working families and their children.” Miami University, Center for American & World Cultures, Oxford, Ohio, November
“New Hope for working families and their children: mixed methods evidence for a successful support program.” University of Maryland, Qualitative research seminar series, College Park, MD, November
“If you work in this country you should not be poor, and your kids should be doing better: The story of New Hope, a successful work support program.” Faculty seminar, University of California Washington Center, Washington DC, November
“Ecocultural theory and the measurement of family settings.” Conceptualizing and measuring social settings conference, WT Grant Foundation, New York City, NY, October
“Well-being, chaos, and culture: Sustaining a meaningful daily routine.” First Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference, Chaos & children’s development: levels of analysis and mechanisms. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October
“New Hope for working families and their children: mixed methods evidence for a successful support program.” Georgetown University, CROCUS Center, Washington, DC, October
“Mixed methods in the study of human development: The New Hope intervention for working poor families.” UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program, Los Angeles, April
“Unpackaging early literacy beliefs and practices of low-income, Latino parents in the United States.” Poster Symposium. Eli Lieber, Helen Davis, Thomas S. Weisner, & Sloane Lefkowitz Burt. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March.
“Beatrice and John Whiting: Their Enduring Contributions to Child Development Research.” Memorial panel, Society for Research in Child Development Poster Symposium, Boston, MA, March.
“Adolescents’ Experiences Across Contexts: Examining ethnic similarities and differences up-close.” Symposium Discussant. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March.
“Culture as process: competence and peer relationships in diverse cultural and ethnic settings.” Symposium discussant. Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March.
“Ecologies of Danger and Cultures of Resilience: Child Development in Extreme Situations.” Discussion. Co-Organizers: Robert S. Pynoos, M.D., M.P.H. and Carl A. Maida, Ph.D. AAAS Meetings, San Francisco, February.
- 2006
“The moral direction in the work of Robert LeVine.” Discussion comments for panel, “Papers Honoring Robert A. LeVine” presented at the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November“The most important influence on human development: Why the vision of the Six Cultures studies matters even more today.” Invited symposium presented at the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Spetses, Greece, July“The cultural reconstruction of methods.” Discussant, Symposium presented at the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Spetses, Greece, July“Data analysis of cultural evidence.” NIDA/OEA Workshop on Cultural and Ethical Considerations in the NIH Review Process. Washington, DC, June“Mixed method research and policy.” In panel on “From questions to answers: Skillful applications of mixed methods of research on youth policy.” Society for Research on Adolescence, March“We Speak Different Dialects: How Teens with Disabilities Think About Friendship, Schools, and Their Lives.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture and Lecture in Special Series on Family Research, Vanderbilt University, January - 2005“Culture, Development, and Diversity: Expectable Pluralism and Expectable Conflict”. Panel on “The organization of diversity.” American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, DecemberLieber, E., Davis, H. M., & Weisner, T. S. (2005). The Culture and Ecology of Emergent Literacy Practices in Head Start Families. Prepared for symposium, Changing Early Literacy Environments: Changing Children’s Developmental Trajectories, J. M. Farver, chair. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, April 7-10, Atlanta, GA.“A Backpacker’s guide to qualitative and quantitative research integration: Evidence from the New Hope experimental intervention for working poor families.” UCLA Biostatistics Seminar Series, May, 2005“Helping families and children sustain a daily routine: Evidence from the New Hope experimental intervention for working poor families.” UCLA Dept of Sociology, Family Research Seminar, January.“Culture, disability, and well-being: Longitudinal ethnographic studies of youth with disabilities and their families.” UCLA Dept of Psychology, Developmental Colloquium, January“Outcome correlates of parent-child bedsharing: An eighteen-year longitudinal study.” Foundation for Psychocultural Research Conference, Four Dimensions of Childhood: Brain, Mind, Culture, & Time. UCLA, February.“Workshop on Narrative Methods – Ethnographic and mixed methods in human development.” University of Padua, Italy, Dept of Psychology, February.“Supporting working poor families and children: mixed method evidence from the New Hope experimental intervention.” Department of Psychology, CUNY, New York City, March, 2005“Culture and Context: The Most Important Influence in Human Development” (SRCD Master Lecture). Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, April, 2005. Click HERE for the 2005 SRCD Presentation Slides (1.4 MB) and HERE for the Reference List (80 KB).“Remember the counterculture? Whatever happened to the children of the children of the 60’s?”. Fashioning anthropology: Festschrift Conference Honoring Gail Kelley. Reed College, April, 2005.“Helping families and children sustain a daily routine: Evidence from the New Hope experimental intervention for working poor families.” UCLA, Psychological Studies in Education, GSE, April 2005.“Fathers and father supports in low-income families.” Paper presented at the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Santa Fe, N.M., February 2005.
- 2004“The five to seven shift.” Panel on Child transitions through the life course. American Anthropological Association, December, Atlanta.Lieber, E., Davis, H. M., Weisner, T. S., Farver, J. M., Lonigan, C. J. (2004). Pre-Literacy Practices in Head Start Families: Qualitative and Mixed Methods in the Study of Children’s Literacy Preparedness. Prepared for symposium, Helping Parents Support their Young Children’s Emergent Literacy Skills, J. M. Farver, organizer. Annual Conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), November, 10-13.“Culture & Health Center research on MR/DD: an update.” UCLA MRRC Annual Retreat, Lake Arrowhead, October.“Parenting and risk from an ecocultural perspective.” Workshop on Parenting and Risk. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, April“Sibling Child Care Within Teenage Childbearing Families.” (Poster). P. East, Weisner, & B. Reyes. Dr. Patricia East, first author. Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, March.“Longitudinal, ethnographic studies of families with children with disabilities.” CELF / Sloan Center, UCLA, February“An ecocultural theory of well-being: Panel honoring Beatrice Whiting”. Society for Cross-Cultural Research, San Jose, February.
- 2003“Ecocultural theory of Well-being”. Panel on “Well-being in cross-cultural perspective: moving beyond cultural particularism., American Anthropological Assn, November, Chicago.“Globalization and psychological anthropology of human development.” Panel on “Gender, Globalization, and Well-Being Among Adolescents”. American Anthropological Assn, November, Chicago“Mixed Methods in developmental research”. Workshop at the WT Grant Faculty Scholars meeting, NYC, October.“Families, culture, and the most important thing in human development.” Discussion paper presented at Jacobs Foundation conference, “In what ways do families matter in young people’s development?”, Marbach, Germany, October.“Sibling and family research in families with children with disabilities: culture, family adaptation, & mixed methods.” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, July“Mixed method research in evaluation: A backpacker’s guide.” Workshop/lecture, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, July“Employment dynamics and family adaptation: Evidence from the New Hope Intervention. Next Generation Project meeting, New York, January. (with Hiro Yoshikawa & Edward Lowe)“What are home environments the result of? The ecocultural adaptive project of sustaining a meaningful family daily routine, and a way to assess this project.” University of Michigan, Workshop on Assessing Home Environments for Children from Diverse Backgrounds, April.“Employment Dynamics and Child Development Among Low-Income Families:Cluster Analytic, Experimental, and Ethnographic Evidence”. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL. (first author, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, with Edward Lowe, JoAnn Hsueh, Rashmita S. Mistry, Anna Gassman-Pines, Noemi Enchautegui-de-Jesus)“The Ecocultural Family Interview: Mixed-method and culturally-situated research on families and children”. Paper presented to the UCLA Pain Research Group, May“Is bedsharing good for children? An 18-year longitudinal study of nonconventional families and children.” Talk presented to UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, & Development, May
- 2002″Employment and Goal Dynamics Among the Working Poor: Survey and Ethnographic Evidence from the New Hope Demonstration. ” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Dallas, TX. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Edward Lowe, JoAnn Hsueh, Noemi Enchautegui-de-Jesus, Anna Gassman-Pines, Rashmita S. Mistry, and Thomas S. Weisner, November, 2002. “What matters for working poor families and children.” Paper presented at Seminar on Social Psychiatry and Social Anthropology, Harvard University, November 2002.”The most important thing in human development.” Invited lecture, Department of Human Development, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy, October, 2002.”Mixed method research in human development.” Invited lecture, Department of Human Development, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, Italy, October, 2002.”Quality of life for families with children with development disabilities. Paper presented at UCLA MRRC annual conference, Lake Arrowhead, CA, October, 2002.”Family investments and families with children with disabilities.” Discussion paper presented at conference, “Family investments in children’s potential: resources and behaviors that promote children’s success.” Northwestern/Univ. of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, Chicago, September, 2002.”Countercultural families and their adolescent children: Values and social movements in human development.” Keynote lecture, 9th Annual Human Development Conference, University of Chicago, Department of Human Development, May, 2002.”Well-being is what matters: Evidence from the New Hope experimental intervention with working poor families.” Paper presented in UCLA Graduate School of Education Colloquium Series, April, 2002.”Ecocultural theory: concepts, methods, outcomes for children.” Discussion paper presented at Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, April, 2002.”Helping families and children sustain a meaningful daily routine: Evidence from the New Hope experimental intervention for working poor families.” Seminar presentation, School of Human Ecology, Dep’t of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, April, 2002.”Troubled children in economically poor families: evidence from the New Hope ethnographic sample.” Discussion paper presented, “The hard to employ and welfare reform conference”, Northwestern/Univ. of Chicago Poverty Center, Washington, DC, February, 2002 (with Lucinda Bernheimer & Ted Lowe).
- 2001″A backpacker’s guide to mixed-method research.” Presentation at the NIMH Child/Adolescent K Awardee Workshop. Bethesda, MD December, 2001,
“Sustainability of the daily routine: A sociocultural outcome for families and children that matters. Invited talk, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, November 2001.
“Well being among adolescents with disabilities.” Introduction to panel, Culture, Disability and the Adolescence to Young Adulthood Transition: Longitudinal ethnographic studies, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November, 2001.
“I speak a different dialect: Teen explanatory models of difference and disability. Paper presented in panel, Culture, disability and the Adolescence to Young Adulthood Transition: Longitudinal ethnographic studies,” American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November, 2001. (With Tamara C. Daley, first author).
Culture and early childhood. Invited lecture, Zero To Three, Washington, DC, May, 2001.
” ‘You have to push it — who’s gonna raise your kids?’: Situating Child Care in the Daily Routines of Low-Income Families.” Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development, April, 2001, Minneapolis. (With Edward Lowe, first author)
“Beyond attachment: Social relationships with multiple significant others.” Discussion paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development, April, 2001, Minneapolis.
“Parenting and normative development in diverse contexts.” Discussion paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development, April, 2001, Minneapolis. - 2000″Troubled children in economically poor families: Evidence from the New Hope Ethnographic Sample. Association for public policy analysis and management, Seattle, November, 2000 (with Lucinda P. Bernheimer).
“Sustaining a daily routine: What matters for working poor families and children.” ESRC Children 5-16 Research Conference: Children: making their future? Research and policy for the 21st Century. London, England, October, 2000. (with Ted Lowe, Lucinda P. Bernheimer, & Christina Gibson).
“Infant ecocultural context shapes pain reactivity and maternal responses. Poster presented at ISSBD, Beijing, July, 2000 (Vanna Axia, first author).
“The ecocultural family interview: theory and applications.” Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco, March , 2000.
“Family obligation and assistance: cross-cultural dimensions.” Discussion, panel on “Family obligation and assistance during adolescence”, Society for the study of adolescence, Chicago, March , 2000.
“An ecocultural theory of well-being”. Working group on the ecology of child well-being. Palo Alto, January, 2000. - 1999″Qualitative understanding in studies of economically poor families: the New Hope collaboration.” Association for public policy analysis and management. Washington DC, November, 1999.
“Anthropology, human development and working poor families in the United States” Invited talk, Michigan work and families seminar, Ann Arbor, October, 1999.
“Sustainability of family daily routines among the working poor : Qualitative and quantitative evidence from the New Hope project.” Presentation at the Joint Center for Policy Research, University of Chicago, July, 1999.
“Parent-child communication and sibling relationship quality in families with a child with a disability.” (Amanda Kowal, first author, & Shira Rosenblatt). Poster, SRCD, April, 1999.
“Ecocultural models of human development: discussion”. For panel “Creating and acquiring cultural competence through everyday activities: A focus on children’s use of time.” SRCD, April, 1999.
“From the living rooms and daily routines of the economically poor: An ethnographic study of the New Hope effects on families and children” (with Bernheimer, Gibson, Howard, Magnuson, Romich, Leiber, et al). SRCD, April, 1999. - 1998″Values that matter: intergenerational transmission of values in countercultural families. Invited talk, University of Michigan, November, 1998.
“Sustainability of daily routines as a family outcome for economically poor families.” American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August, 1998.
“Can anti-poverty assistance for economically poor families improve family and child well being? An ethnographic study of the New Hope Program” Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families conference, Chicago, May, 1998. - 1997″Developmental influences on learning culture: when do children’s and ethnographer’s competencies start to converge?” American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November, 1997.
The children of the children of the 60s at adolescence.” Invited lecture, Bryn Mawr College, October, 1997.
“What is the most important thing about methods?” NIMH Journal Editors’ Consortium meeting, Belmont Conference Center, MD, June, 1997.
“Cultural models and human development”. Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April, 1997.
“Ecocultural models of family adaptation among families with children with developmental delays.” Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April, 1997. - 1996″African infancy”. Discussion paper presented at panel on New Perspectives on African Infancy, African Studies Association, San Francisco, November, 1996.
“The five to seven developmental transition as an ecocultural project.” Paper presented at the panel, Biosocial perspectives on development, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November, 1996.
“The interdependency of ethnographic, qualitative, and quantitative methods”. NIH seminar, Bethesda MD, October, 1996.
“Ecocultural activity settings as a unit for analysis in cultural psychology.” Paper presented at the conference on culture and psychology, SSRC, Palo Alto, May, 1996.
“An 18-year model of transmission of family values and substance use to teens.” Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Boston, March , 1996 (with Dr. Helen Garnier, first author, and Judith Stein).
“The influence of family lifestyles and values on peer socialization in adolescence: a 19-year longitudinal study of nonconventional families.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New York City, April, 1996 (Dr. Helen Garnier, first author, and Jennifer Jacobs).
“The impact of early family life on the process of dropping out of high school.” Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Boston, March, 1996 (Jennifer Jacobs, first author, and Dr. Helen Garnier). - 1995″Family values at adolescence in conventional and nonconventional families”. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November, 1995.
“Parents’ descriptions of their adolescent girls as cultural models: Asian Indian and Euro-American families”. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November, 1995 (with Dr. Chemba Raghavan, first author).
“The Ecocultural Project of Human Development: Why Ethnography and its Findings Matter”. Paper presented at NIMH workshop on ethnography and the illumination of sociocultural processes in mental health, Bethesda, MD, October, 1995.
“Recent developments in the study of culture and human development”. Paper presented at the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October, 1995.
“Children of the 1960s at Midlife: Generational Identity and the Family Adaptive Project”. Paper presented at the MacArthur Foundation conference on midlife development, San Juan, Puerto, October, 1995.
“Ethnographic methods and training in Anthropology”. Paper presented at the Japanese Ethnological Society, Osaka, Japan, June, 1995.
“Culture and human development: Theory and empirical research”. Paper presented at Tokyo University, June, 1995.
“Family adaptation to children with developmental delays: Ecocultural approaches.” Paper presented at Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, June, 1995.
“Nonconventional California families and adolescent development”. Paper presented at Kyoto University, June, 1995.
“Family values and nonconventional family lifestyles: An 18-year longitudinal study at adolescence.” Poster, Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, March , 1995 (with Helen Garnier).
“Countercultural and Nonconventional family lifestyles, family values, and adolescent substance use.” Poster, Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, March , 1995 (Helen Garnier, first author).
“Nonconventional Mothers’ Descriptions of Their Teens: Values, Lifestyles, and Gender Influences.” Poster, Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, March , 1995 (Chemba Raghavan, first author).