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Vicky Phares

Professor

CONTACT

Office: PCD 4125
Phone: 813/205-3159
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Curriculum Vitae

TEACHING

Ph.D. Area: Clinical

RESEARCH

My research group has explored a variety of issues related to child, adolescent, and family functioning. In particular, we have been interested in exploring the connections between psychopathology in fathers, mothers, and children. A focus of our work remains on gender in relation to parenting, with particular interest in parenting in relation to anxious youth. Projects include the exploration of fathers’ and mothers’ involvement in therapy, mother-blaming, and racial/ethnic differences and similarities in families. 911±¬ÁÏÍø are in the beginning stages of exploring connections between parents’ and children’s prosocial behavior, with a specific focus on volunteerism.

SPECIALTY AREA

Clinical

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(* student authors at the time of manuscript preparation)

Thurston*, I. B., Hardin*, R., Decker*, K., Arnold*, T., Howell, K. H., and Phares, V. (2018). Black and White parents’ willingness to seek help for children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74, 161-177.

Coates*, E. E., Tran*, Q., Le*, Y., & Phares, V. (2019). Parenting, coparenting, and adolescent adjustment in African American single-mother families: An actor-partner interdependence mediation model. Journal of Family Psychology, 33, 649-660.

Phares, V. (2020).  Understanding Abnormal Child Psychology (4^th ed.).  Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.

Phares, V. (2020).  Using memoirs and autobiographies to enhance the teaching of abnormal child psychology. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 19, 239-257.

Phares, V. (2022). Undergraduate psychology internships prove valuable for students and community. The Hub, On-line news publication of USF College of Arts and Sciences.

Blair-Andrews*, Z., Salloum, A., Evans, S. Phares, V. & Storch, E.A. (2024). Parental descriptions of childhood avoidance symptoms after trauma. Traumatology, 30, 27-36.

McHale, J. P., Coates, E. E., Collins, R., & Phares, V. (2024). Coparenting theory, research, and practice: Toward a universal infant-family mental health paradigm. In J. D. Osofsky, H. E. Fitzgerald, M. Keren, & K. Kaija Puura (Eds.), WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (pp. 329-350). Springer Publishers.

Phares, V. (2024). Virtual internships and experiences in the helping professions. Eye on Psi Chi, 28 (3), 26-28.