The Contexts of Parenting in At-Risk Populations

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College Park, MD--2/25/2014— Dr. Allison K. Holmes,currently a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University, will be giving a presentation on  the contexts of parenting in at-risk populations, at Noon on Wednesday, February 26th at Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal’s) office in M Square Research Park, Maryland.

While receiving her Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland, College Park, Dr. Holmes wrote her dissertation on low income teen father’s involvement in their child’s early life and the influence of individual and contextual characteristics on teen father’s involvement. Dr. Holmes is teaching courses in Human Development and Learning and Human Development and Counseling at Johns Hopkins University while also serving as a Research Psychologist for the Child and Family Program at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Along with receiving her Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009, Dr. Holmes received her B.A. in Psychology from The University of Notre Dame in 2002.

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