BEES News and Updates

Teacher Stress Study Funded

The BEES lab has a new NIH-funded study.  The Teacher Stress Study examines Early Head Start teachers' stress and coping.  Look for more updates in 2018! 

Lab Fun 

The fall has been busy for the BEES lab. Our Simple Dinner study is nearing the end of its first phase.  Our work on parental mentalization continues in other projects with doctoral students Hailey and Neda leading fascinating work on maternal mentalization in free play and delay tasks contexts. Excited for 2018!
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The amazing 2017-2018 Simply Dinner Team
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Danielle, Casey, Neda, Hailey and Holly have a pre-Thanksgiving discussion on mentalization. Good stuff!

Casey Campbell Awarded Summer Research Fellowship

Casey Campbell received a Provost's Undergraduate Research fellowship, Summer 2017, to study parents' emotion socialization beliefs and practices as they relate to toddlers' fear responses. Congratulations Casey! Casey is busy coding parental supports of toddlers' emotion regulation in a fear task!
Congratulations to our BEES lab seniors who graduated Saturday, May 6!    

BEES Lab Graduates!

BEES Curriculum Wins National Award 

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Holly Brophy-Herb and MSU Extension Team Kendra Moyses, Carrie Shrier, Maria Millet, Kylie Rymanowicz and Alan Pilkenton won first place national award from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences for their Building Early Emotion Skills (BEES) Parenting Program.  The BEES curriculum includes 8 lessons to improve emotional regulation in parents and their young children and is being tested throughout Michigan through the USDA-CYFAR funded study (K. Moyses, PI; Shier and Brophy-Herb, Co-PIs). ​

Alix VanBuskirk and Rikki McClelland Win Place First in Undergraduate Research 

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First Place Honors
BEES lab faculty Holly Brophy-Herb and Claire Vallotton are partners in WKAR/PBS's new children's programming. See Dr. B-H's clip on family mealtimes here  and see Dr. V talk about infant signing during mealtimes and other times here. 
BEES researchers Alix VanBuskirk, a senior in Human Development and Family Studies, and Rikki McClelland, a May 2016 graduate of Human Development and Family Studies, placed first in their division at MSU's  annual University Undergradaute Research and Arts Forum. Their research focused on coparenting and toddler characteristics related to externalizing and internalizing behavior problems in toddlers.  Alix and Rikki both received undergraduate research fellowships from the Office of the Provost.  Alix is also a summer 2016 PURI scholar.  

Paper on Fathers' Mental Health Makes Psychology Today

Work led by BEES collaborator Dr. Claire Vallotton with co-authors Tamesha Harewood, Holly Brophy-Herb and Laura Froyen revealed that fathers' mental health effects young children's cognitive and language development.  ​www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201607/dads-psychological-well-being-impacts-his-kids-development