Faculty

Mark Feinberg
Ph.D., George Washington University, 1998

Senior Research Associate, Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development

Contact Information

402J Marion Place

mef11@psu.edu

Phone: 814-865-8796
Fax Number: 814-865-6004

Personal Web site

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/m/e/mef11/

Research Interests

Family and community prevention; development, genetics, and family relations; neuroscience and emotion regulation; parenting and mindfulness

Examples of Current Prevention Projects

Family-focused Prevention

Family Foundations: Coparenting and the Transition to Parenthood
Funder: NIH (Feinberg)

Preventing Poor Pregnancy Outcomes
Funder: PA Department of Health
(Feinberg, Downs, Weisman, et al.)

Siblings and Development
(Feinberg, McHale)

Bio-Social Projects

Affective Neuroscience of Parenting
(Feinberg, Teti, and members of the Parenting at Risk [PAR] study group)

Genes and Prevention
(Vogler, Feinberg, FastTrack Project Team)

Pilot Project on Children's Attention
(Feinberg, Blair, Greenberg, Gilmore, et al.)

Community Prevention

Communities That Care
Funder: PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency
(Feinberg, Greenberg, Bumbarger, et al.)

PROSPER

Funder: NIH (Greenberg, Feinberg, Welsh, et al.)