Faculty and Staff of The Center for Population and Family Health

Carmen Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor in Medical Psychology
cr14@columbia.edu

EXPERTISE: Child development and parenting, Head Start and Early Head Start, mental health in minority children, and psychological assessment of culturally diverse children

Consultant to Head Start Region II and Early Head Start in mental health and child development, former member New York Zero To Three Board

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Rodriguez, C., Rojas-Flores, L., Miller, L., Preventing conduct problems in Latino head start children: A pilot study. International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June, 1999.

Lisseth Rojas-Flores, Laurie Miller, & Carmen Rodriguez. Preventing Conduct Problems in Latino Head Start Children: A Pilot Study.Presentation at International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopatholgy Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 18, 1999.

Carmen Rodriguez, Helena Duch, Maria Guzman & Victoria Puig. Building An Adult Development and Economic Self-Suffiency Program in Head Start.Presentation at Region II Head Start Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 26, 1999.

Rodriguez, C., Wilson, A., Guzman, M., Farber, G., Nunez, M. Embedding literacy in a bilingual home and center based Head Start program. National Head Start Training Conference, Seattle, Washington, April, 1998.

Rodriguez, C. Therapeutic approaches to parent-child attatchment. Region II Parent Child Center Quality Enhancement Initiative, New York, March, 1995.

Meersand, P. & Rodriguez, C. Mother-child psychotherapy: treatment for high-risk dyads. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41st Annual Meeting, New York, N.Y. October, 1994.

Wood, F., Reinhold, A.J., & Rodriguez, C. Innovations in community based child care & development from an international experience. Save the Children Family Child Care Technical Assistance Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1994.

Meersand, P. & Rodriguez, C. Multigenerational parenting: treating grandmothers and young children in a therapeutic nursery. National Head Start Research Conference, Washington, D.C., November, 1993.

Rodriguez, C. & Meersand, P. The therapeutic nursery: treatment for high risk families with young children. National Zero to Three Training Institute, Washington D.C, December, 1993.

Rodriguez, C. Children and violence in the United States. Global Forum, United Nations Conference on the Envrionment, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June, 1992.