Educational Psychology, Suicidology
Prior to joining the school psychology faculty at UAlbany, Dr. Miller was a school psychologist in both public and alternative school settings. He is a Past-President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), the oldest and largest membership organization in the U.S. devoted to understanding and preventing suicide and supporting those affected by it. Dr. Miller is the author of three books, including Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Self-Injury at School (2010), Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior: School-Based Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention (2011), and Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior: School-Based Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention, Second Edition (2021). He has also published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, primarily in the areas of school-based suicide prevention, youth suicidal behavior, mental health promotion, and internalizing behavior problems in children and adolescents. An invited expert reviewer for several national documents addressing youth suicide, including After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools and the Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention, he has served on the editorial boards of several professional journals, including School Psychology Review, Journal of School Psychology, Psychology in the Schools, Journal of School Violence, and Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Courses currently taught by Dr. Miller include ESPY 690: Introduction to School Psychology, ESPY 785: Behavioral Consultation and Intervention, ESPY 788: Prevention and Health Promotion, and ESPY 789: Developmental Psychopathology.
Professor Emerita
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAdult Literacy, Aging, brain training, Cognition, Cognitive resilience, Educational Psychology, Literacy, older adult, Psychology, Reading, resource allocation, Working Memory, young adult
was on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire prior to coming to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She is currently a Professor Emerita and research professor of with appointments in psychology and the . She leads .
Education
Ph.D., general/experimental psychology, Georgia Tech University, 1983
Postdoctoral researcher, Duke University, 1983-1984
Research scientist, Brandeis University, 1984-1990
Research Interests:
Professor Stine-Morrow's research is focused on the conditions and strategies that augment cognitive health and make us effective learners into later adulthood. Research topics include:
Investigating how age-related change in cognition impacts language and text comprehension and how shifts in strategy with age can contribute to maintaining text memory.
Mechanisms underlying individual variation in literacy skill among adults.
Interventions that promote cognitive resilience into late life.
Professor Stine-Morrow’s research is broadly concerned with the multifaceted nature of adult development and aging; in particular, how cognition and intellectual capacities are optimized over the adult life span. She has examined how self-regulated adaptations (e.g., selective allocation of attentional resources, reliance on knowledge-based processes, activity engagement, etc.) engender positive development in adulthood. Much of this research has focused on the important role of literacy and the processes through which effective reading is maintained into late life.
Professor Stine-Morrow's research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute for Educational Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America. Awards include the College of Education Spitze-Mather Award for Faculty Excellence and the Department of Educational Psychology Jones Teaching Award. Professor Stine-Morrow has served as president of Division 20 of the American Psychological Association, as associate editor for The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Memory & Cognition, and as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Adolescent and Adult Literacy (2009-2011). She currently serves as associate editor for Psychology and Aging.