Family & Development Lab

The Family & Development Lab—affectionately known as FamDev—is a developmental psychology lab at Providence College where we explore the dynamic interactions between interparental conflict, parent-child attachment, and parenting on child development, particularly with regard to psychopathology, like depression, anxiety, aggression, and delinquency. At the Family & Development Lab, we use interviews, questionnaires, videotaped observations, and games to help us better understand how family members interact with each other and how this influences growing children and adolescents. Our research wouldn't be possible without families like yours! At the Family & Development Lab, our goal is to better understand how families work and how everyday interactions between family members impact child development. To help us do so, we rely on families in our community to participate in our research. With help from families like yours, we can learn so much about child development and everyday family interactions through activities like games, engaging in conversations about everyday topics, and simply telling us about what things are like in your family.