Melodie Fearnow-Kenney



Basic Biographical Data

BORN
Richmond, Virginia (5-4-67)

EDUCATION
B.A., Randolph-Macon College, Psychology, 1989
M.S., Villanova University, Psychology, 1991
Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, Developmental Psychology, 1996
Post-Doc in Prevention Research, Arizona State University, 1996-1998

FUNDED PROJECTS EXPERIENCE
Program Evaluation Specialist, Multi-Generational Substance Abuse Treatment Program for Women and Their Children, Virginia Commonwealth University, (J.C. May, P.I.), 1995-1996

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, NIMH Research Training Grant for Child Mental Health/Prevention Research, Program for Prevention Research & the Dept. of Psychology, Arizona State University, (I.N. Sandler, P.I.; L. Chassin, Training Core), 1996-1998

Dissemination of Prevention Research Via the Internet (Phases I & II), National Institute on Drug Abuse (W.B. Hansen, P.I.) 1998-2001

Improving Drug Education Through Concept Training for Teachers (Phase II), National Institute on Drug Abuse (W.B. Hansen, P.I.) 1998-2001

Internet-based College Alcohol Education (Phase I), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (M.D. Fearnow-Kenney, P.I.) 2000-2001

Curriculum Developer, Drug Prevention in High Schools, All Stars, Sr., National Institute on Drug Abuse (W.B. Hansen, P.I.), 2000-present.

HONORS

PUBLICATIONS

Fearnow-Kenney, M.D. & Wyrick, D.L., Hansen, W.B., Bibeau, D.L., & Dyreng, D. (In Press). Normative Beliefs, Alcohol Expectancies and Alcohol-Related Problems among College Students: Implications for Theory and Prevention Practice. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education.

Wyrick, C.H., Wyrick, D.L., Fearnow-Kenney, M., Giles, S.M., & Hansen, W.B. (In Press). Students Voices on Health Education. The North Carolina Journal.

Fearnow-Kenney, M., Wyrick, D.L., Jackson-Newsom, J., Wyrick, C.H., & Hansen, W.B. (2003). Initial indicators of effectiveness for a high school drug prevention program, American Journal of Health Education, 34 (2), 14-19.

Giles, S.M., Fearnow-Kenney, M.D., & Hansen, W.B. (2002). Drug prevention through continuing education: Evaluation of a teacher training course. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 46(3).

Fearnow-Kenney, M., Hansen, W.B., & McNeal, R.B. (2002). Comparison of psychosocial influences on substance use in adolescents: Implications for prevention programming, Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Use, 11 (4), 1-24.

Wyrick, D.L., Wyrick, C.H., Bibeau, D.L., & Fearnow-Kenney, M.D. (2001). Coverage of Adolescent Substance Use Prevention in State Frameworks for Health Education. Journal of School Health, 71, 437-442.

Giles, S.M., Harrington, N.G., & Fearnow-Kenney, M. (2001). Evaluation of the All Stars Program: Student and Teacher Factors That Influence Mediators of Substance Use, Journal of Drug Education, 31 (4) 385-397.

Fearnow-Kenney, M., & Kliewer, W. (2000). Threat appraisal and adjustment among children with cancer. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 18, (3) 1-17.

Fearnow, M., Chassin, L., Presson, C.C., & Sherman, S.J. (1998). Determinants of parental attempts to deter their children's cigarette smoking. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 19, 453-468.

Kliewer, W., Fearnow, M., & Walton, M. (1998). Dispositional, environmental, and context-specific predictors of children's threat appraisals in everyday stressful situations. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 27, 83-100.

Kliewer, W., Fearnow, M.D., & Miller, P.A. (1996). Coping socialization in middle childhood: Tests of maternal and parental influences. Child Development, 67, 2339-2357.

DISSERTATION TITLE
Threat Appraisal, Coping, and Adjustment Among Children with Cancer.

Correspondence
    Email: melfearnow-kenney@tanglewood.net
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