Table 12 – Dr. Wendy Kliewer

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Biography:
My research centers on the broad theme of risk and resilience, with much of my work specifically examining substance use in early, middle, or late adolescence as an outcome. I am interested in the effects of cumulative risk – the piling up of sociodemographic, psychosocial, and environmental stressors – and adjustment across a broad array of domains including academic, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physiological functioning. Currently, I co-lead three projects: Project CARE – a study of risk and resilience in South African youth (located in Durban, South Africa); Project HEART – Health and Resilience in Teens – focused on low-income African American adolescents and their mothers in Richmond; and the Myanmar Youth Health Study – a study of risk and protective factors for teen substance use in Myanmar. I also am a co-investigator on the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products (CSTP), a National Institute on Drug Abuse funded effort to provide tools that can be used by the FDA to guide tobacco product regulation development, and am an Associate Coordinator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program, a Fulbright exchange activity. Among protective factors, I have a particular interest in the role of the family in mitigating risk. I am committed to interdisciplinary, cross-cultural research, as well as to training the next generation of scholars to continue to do research that matters.

Further reading:
• Wright, A.W., Salifu Yendork, J., & Kliewer, W. (2018). Patterns of Spiritual Connectedness during Adolescence: Links to Coping and Adjustment in Low-Income Urban Youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-018-0886-6. Available through online first publications.
• Wan, N., Kliewer, W., & Sosnowski, D. (2018). Sex Differences in Risk for Substance Use among High School Students in Myanmar. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation. DOI: 10.1037/ipp0000093. Available through online first publications.

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• Wendy Kliewer, Virginia Commonwealth University
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