Roger P. Weissberg,
Director
Rank and Educational Background
Positions: Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies
Director, NIMH-funded Prevention Research Training Program in Urban Children's
Mental Health and AIDS Prevention
Graduate Degree: University of Rochester, 1980, PhD
Mailing Address and Contact Numbers
Campus Mailing Address: Department of Psychology (M/C 285)
Office: BSB 1008A
Phone: (312) 413-1012
Fax: (312) 355-0559
E-mail: rpw@uic.edu
Current Research Interests
I am interested in developing effective school- and community-based approaches
to promote competence and prevent social and health behavior problems in
children and adolescents. This work involves: (a) identifying personal and
environmental factors that contribute to social and health behavior problems;
and (b) designing developmentally appropriate interventions to promote coping
skills and social supports for young people and their families.
Much of my research is conducted in collaboration with urban public schools.
For the past 20 years, I have worked with school personnel and community
members to establish kindergarten through twelfth-grade social development
and health curricula. Currently, I am collaborating with student and faculty
colleagues on three sets of major projects. The first assesses the effects
of parental involvement in children's education and in the development of
children's social competence, problem behavior, and academic achievement.
The second explores risk and protective factors for poor school performance,
substance abuse, high-risk sexual behavior, and delinquency in urban adolescents.
The third examines the effects of school and community interventions to
prevent drug use, high-risk sexual behavior, and violence in urban school
children. I am also very interested in pursuing the implications that my
research has for social policies concerning community problems for children,
youth, and families.
Recent Representative Publications
Weissberg, R. P., Caplan, M., & Harwood, R. L. (1991). Promoting
competent young people in competence-enhancing environments: A systems-based
perspective on primary prevention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,
59, 830-841.
Weissberg, R. P., & Elias, M. J. (1993). Enhancing young people's
social competence and health behavior: An important challenge for educators,
scientists, policy makers, and funders. Applied and preventive psychology:
Current scientific perspectives, 3, 179-190.
Weissberg, R. P., & Greenberg, M. T. (1997). School and community
competence-enhancement and prevention programs. In W. Damon (Series Ed.)
& I. E. Sigel & K. A. Renninger (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology:
Vol 5. Child psychology in practice (5th ed.). NY: John Wiley & Sons.
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Robin Lin Miller, Co-Director
Rank and Educational Background
Position: Assistant Professor of Psychology
Graduate Degree: New York University, 1994, PhD
Mailing Address and Contact Numbers
Campus Mailing Address: Department of Psychology (M/C 285)
Office: BSB 1062B
Phone: (312) 413-2638
FAX: (312) 413-4122
E-Mail: RLMiller@uic.edu
Current Research Interests
My research focuses on HIV-related primary and secondary prevention in community
settings, primarily among gay men. I examine the role of psychological factors
that are considered important in changing and maintaining behavior, such
as self-efficacy, and social factors that might encourage risk-reduction
behavior, such as identity, social networks, and sexual norms. In particular,
my work is concerned with the development of community-based preventive
interventions that promote sexual risk-reduction and community responses
to HIV. My work also emphasizes developing program evaluation capacity within
community-based organizations and articulating the role that community-based
organizations play in HIV prevention.
Currently my work includes a project to examine the processes that facilitate
and hinder AIDS-related community-based organizations to adopt prevention
innovations developed by behavioral scientists and by other organizations.
This project is focused on explicating how characteristics of interventions,
organizations, and communication channels influence technology transfer
processes. I am co-investigator of a multisite, cooperative agreement to
develop and assess the effect of a community-level HIV risk-reduction intervention
targeting young African American men who have sex with other men. I am also
engaged in conducting process evaluations of two community-based organizations
in Chicago, one concerned with outreach and prevention case management for
gay youth of color and the other focused on HIV-related street outreach
in several high-risk neighborhoods.
Recent Representative Publications
Miller, R. L. (1995). Assisting gay men to maintain safer sex: An evaluation
of an AIDS service org- anization's safer sex maintenance program. AIDS
Education and Prevention: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 7 (Suppl. 5), 48-63.
Miller, R. L. & Solomon, E. E. (1996). Assessing the AIDS-related
needs of women in a Brooklyn housing development. In R. Reviere, S. Berkowitz,
C. C. Carter, & C. G. Ferguson (Eds.), Needs assessment: A practical
and creative guide for social scientists. (pp. 93-119). London: Taylor &
Francis.
Miller, R. L. & Cassel, B. J. (In press). Ongoing evaluation in AIDS-service
organizations: Building meaningful evaluation activities. Journal of Prevention
in the Community, in press.
Miller, R. L., Klotz, D., & Eckholdt, H. M. (In press). HIV prevention
with male prostitutes and patrons of hustler bars: Replication of an HIV
prevention intervention. American Journal of Community Psychology, in press.
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