Doctoral Graduate Student RA, School of Social Work
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University of Washington Social Development Research Group 9725 3rd Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98115 USA shapirov@u.washington.edu |
Biographical information
Valerie Shapiro
graduated with high honors in Psychology from Colgate University. Since that time, she has earned her masters degree in Social Service Management from the Bryn Mawr
College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and has held roles as a school social worker, outpatient therapist, and program consultant in support of
children's behavioral health. Her most recent position of full-time employment was at the Devereux Institute of Clinical Training and Research where she conducted research
and developed community prevention programs utilizing strength-based approaches to promote the healthy social-emotional development of children. Through this work, she has
had the opportunity to serve on national committees to advocate for universal social-emotional learning practices, present at national conferences, and publish in scholarly
journals. She was selected to be the 2007 Gottlieb Fellow and awarded summer funding to participate in the NIH Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training
Program. In 2008-2009, she will work with the Social Development Research Group as an NIMH Prevention Trainee using a prevention science framework to research risk and
protection factors in child development, the implementation of community-level interventions, and questions regarding the scalability and sustainability of tested-effective
programs.
Currently she is working on papers examining whether the SSDP intervention worked better (or worse) for people who were high in behavioral disinhibition/externalizing, as
well as a qualitative paper examining the transition to adulthood for youths involved in crime and drugs during adolescence.
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