The Pitt Mother & Child Project is a longitudinal study of child development. Begun in 1991 by Drs. Daniel Shaw and Joan Vondra as the Pitt Mother & Baby Project, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute on Drug Abuse provided continuous funding through the year 2015.
The overarching goal of this project was to examine the short- and long-term health effects of a set of interventions focusing on three inter-related regulatory systems: sleep, physical activity, and emotion.
The SafeKeeping Youth (SKY) Study is testing the effectiveness of integrating and adapting two procedures for use in primary care pediatric clinics serving low-income youth: the Urgency Indicator (UI) - a screening tool for high risk of substance use (SU) prior to high school; and the Family Check-Up (FCU) - a brief, family-based program to prevent SU.
The Early Steps Monitoring Project used the Early Steps Multisite sample of 731 families to examine extra-familial contexts at ages 7.5 to 10.5 (e.g., school, after-school care, and neighborhood settings), focusing on the relation of parental involvement in these outside settings with child problem behavior.
The goal of this study was to test a family-based preventive intervention with two-year-old children at risk for developing significant conduct problems.
The overall goal of this project was to investigate the developmental trajectories of the offspring of mothers with childhood-onset depression (COD).