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GENE BRODY, Ph.D., is a Distinguished
Research Professor of Child and Family Development at the University
of Georgia and Director of the Center for Family Research. He
completed his graduate education at the University of Arizona.
During the first half of his career, his research focused on
the contributions of parental psychological functioning, parenting
practices and sibling relationships to the emotional and behavioral
well-being of children and adolescents. These studies laid a
foundation for the research that Dr. Brody has conducted during
the second half of his career. This work has followed rural
African-American families over time in an attempt to identify
family and community processes that forecast academic, emotional
and behavioral competence in children and adolescents living
in conditions of environmental stress. The results of this research
have informed the development of a prevention program, The Strong
African-American Families (SAAF) Program, for rural families
with early adolescent children. The effectiveness of this program
in preventing alcohol and substance use and early onset sexual
behavior is now being tested in a randomized prevention trial.
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