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Wendy Kliewer is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States and has contributed extensively to psychological and social science research. Their work spans a range of fields including psychology, social sciences, and medicine, with significant focus on clinical psychology and education.

The primary areas of research include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, early childhood education and development, youth substance use and school attendance, poverty, education, and child welfare, as well as homelessness and social issues.

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Kliewer include:

  • Reentry of Incarcerated Juveniles: Correctional Education as a Turning Point Across Juvenile and Adult Facilities (2020, Criminal Justice and Behavior)
  • Motivations for the nonmedical use of prescription drugs in a longitudinal national sample of young adults (2020, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment)
  • Peer Victimization Exposure and Subsequent Substance Use in Early Adolescence: The Role of Sleep Problems (2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
  • Duty-related stressors, adjustment, and the role of coping processes in first responders: A systematic review (2022, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy)
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Are Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Indicators and Telomere Length in Low-Income African-American Adolescents (2021, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine)

Kliewer frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • John Cyrus
  • Martin Osayande Agwogie
  • Marcia A. Winter
  • Colleen S. Walsh
  • Terri N. Sullivan

They have published multiple articles in journals such as the International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Child and Family Studies, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, South African Journal of Psychology, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Their subfields of study are reflected in the topics and publication venues, focusing mainly on clinical psychology within the broader frameworks of education, safety research, sociology and political science, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Best Publications

  • The role of social and cognitive processes in children's adjustment to community violence.

    Wendy Kliewer;Stephen J. Lepore;Deborah Oskin;Patricia D. Johnson

  • Peer victimization in early adolescence: association between physical and relational victimization and drug use, aggression, and delinquent behaviors among urban middle school students.

    Terri N. Sullivan;Albert D. Farrell;Wendy Kliewer

  • Coping Socialization in Middle Childhood: Tests of Maternal and Paternal Influences

    Wendy Kliewer;Melodie D. Fearnow;Paul A. Miller

  • Adolescent Self-Esteem and Gender: Exploring Relations to Sexual Harassment, Body Image, Media Influence, and Emotional Expression.

    Mary Polce-Lynch;Barbara J. Myers;Wendy Kliewer;Christopher Kilmartin

  • Coping in middle childhood: Relations to competence, Type A behavior, monitoring, blunting, and locus of control.

    Wendy Kliewer

  • Violence Exposure and Adjustment in Inner-City Youth: Child and Caregiver Emotion Regulation Skill, Caregiver?Child Relationship Quality, and Neighborhood Cohesion as Protective Factor.

    Wendy Kliewer;Jera Nelson Cunningham;Robyn Diehl;Katie Adams Parrish

  • Risk and Protective Factors for Adolescent Substance Use: Findings from a Study in Selected Central American Countries

    Wendy Kliewer;Lenn Murrelle

  • Emotion socialization, child emotion understanding and regulation, and adjustment in urban African American families: Differential associations across child gender

    Jera Nelson Cunningham;Wendy Kliewer;Pamela W. Garner

  • Locus of control and self-esteem as moderators of stressor-symptom relations in children and adolescents.

    Wendy Kliewer;Irwin N. Sandler

  • Socialization of coping with community violence: influences of caregiver coaching, modeling, and family context

    Wendy Kliewer;Katie Adams Parrish;Kelli W. Taylor;K. Jackson

  • Associations between Sadness and Anger Regulation Coping, Emotional Expression, and Physical and Relational Aggression among Urban Adolescents

    Terri N. Sullivan;Sarah W. Helms;Wendy Kliewer;Kimberly L. Goodman

  • Gender and Age Patterns in Emotional Expression, Body Image, and Self-Esteem: A Qualitative Analysis

    Mary Polce-Lynch;Barbara J. Myers;Christopher T. Kilmartin;Renate Forssmann-Falck

  • The Longitudinal Consistency of Mother-Child Reporting Discrepancies of Parental Monitoring and Their Ability to Predict Child Delinquent Behaviors Two Years Later

    Andres De Los Reyes;Kimberly L. Goodman;Wendy Kliewer;Kathryn Reid-Quiñones

  • Impact of Exposure to Community Violence on Anxiety: A Longitudinal Study of Family Social Support as a Protective Factor for Urban Children

    Kamila S. White;Steven E. Bruce;Albert D. Farrell;Wendy Kliewer

  • Hope, Coping, and Adjustment Among Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Tests of Mediator and Moderator Models

    Hellen A. Lewis;Wendy Kliewer

  • Family Influences on Coping Processes in Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease

    Wendy Kliewer;Hellen Lewis

  • Neighborhood Types and Externalizing Behavior in Urban School-Age Children: Tests of Direct, Mediated, and Moderated Effects

    Laura E. Plybon;Wendy Kliewer

  • Longitudinal analyses of the relationship between unsupportive social interactions and psychological adjustment among women with fertility problems.

    Erica J Mindes;Kathleen M Ingram;Wendy Kliewer;Cathy A James

  • Home environmental consequences of commute travel impedance.

    Raymond W. Novaco;Wendy Kliewer;Alexander Broquet

  • Family moderators of the relation between hassles and behavior problems in inner-city youth

    Wendy Kliewer;Eva Kung

Frequent Co-Authors

Terri N. Sullivan
Terri N. Sullivan Virginia Commonwealth University
Albert D. Farrell
Albert D. Farrell Virginia Commonwealth University
Stephen J. Lepore
Stephen J. Lepore Temple University
Dawn K. Wilson
Dawn K. Wilson University of South Carolina
Irwin N. Sandler
Irwin N. Sandler Arizona State University
Raymond W. Novaco
Raymond W. Novaco University of California, Irvine
Michele Settanni
Michele Settanni University of Turin
Nathaniel G. Wade
Nathaniel G. Wade Iowa State University
Everett L. Worthington
Everett L. Worthington Virginia Commonwealth University
Ananda B. Amstadter
Ananda B. Amstadter Virginia Commonwealth University

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