Ph.D., Adelphi University - Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies
Francine Conway
is the dean of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional
Psychology. She is a licensed clinical psychologist (NJ, NY) and has
been a professor
and practicing licensed psychologist for 17 years. Her clinical interest
is in children and adults, which intersects with her research interests
largely
focusing on factors contributing to physical and psychological health
among adults and children.
Her
scholarly focus has been in two areas: aging and child psychopathology.
Her aging research has received support from the National Institutes of
Health's Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) grant
mechanisms and the National Institute on Aging and has led to
international collaborations with the German Center for Gerontology in
Berlin. Her research on children primarily focuses on understanding the
internal life of the child. International and domestic scholarly
collaborations with researchers and clinicians who treat children with
ADHD include Dr. Björn Salomonsson from the Swedish Psychoanalytic
Society in Stockholm, Sweden, and Dr. MarianneLeuzinger-Bohleber, from
the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.
Her research focuses on mechanisms underlying individual differences in affect that will help to understand differential affect expression and
regulation. Most of her research explores how adverse situations (ADHD,
trauma, caregiving, breast cancer, and ethnically disenfranchised group
membership) impact an individual's emotional and physical health. These
issues are investigated in the context of human development across the
life span particularly since there are compelling demographics noting the
rapid increase in the number of older adults. In adults, her research
areas include physical health concerns such as breast cancer and prostate cancer, caregiving issues faced by individuals caring for
family members with Alzheimer's disease and older adults caring for
their grandchildren. Among children, her research has focused on bipolar disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, chronic stressors,
and trauma.
Dr. Conway is a licensed clinical psychologist and a university professor
for the past 17 years. She has eight years of academic administrative
experience and served as the chair of the psychology department at
Adelphi University from 2008 to 2016. She is a graduate of Cornell
University and Columbia University and earned her Ph.D. from Adelphi's
Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies.
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