Katherine M. Kitzmann Associate Professor Psychology Building, Room 366 901.678.4683 (telephone) 901.678.2579 (fax) k.kitzmann@memphis.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia
M.A., College of William and Mary
B.A., College of William and Mary

Research Interests

• Family Process Research
• Marital Conflict and Divorce
• Parenting and Emotion Socialization
• Family Influences on Child Health

• Kitzmann, K.. M., Parra, G. R., & Jobe-Shields, L. (in press for January, 2012). A review of programs designed to prepare parents for custody and visitation mediation. Family Court Review.
• Kitzmann, K. M., & Howard, K. M. (2011). Emotion socialization by early childhood educators: Conceptual models from psychology. Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 5, 23-44.
• Parra, G. R., Jobe, L. E., Kitzmann, K. M., Luebbe, A. M., Olsen, J. P., & Davis, G. L. (in press). Investigation of change in adolescent perceptions of mothers' and fathers' contributions to interparental discord from grades 7 to 9. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
• Chan, C., & Kitzmann, K. M. (2010) Health perceptions of Chinese early childhood educators in Hong Kong: Exploratory factor analysis. Health Promotion International, 25 (4), 412-424. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daq031
• Kitzmann, K. M., Dalton, W. T., Stanley, C. M., Beech, B. M., Reeves, T. J., Buscemi, J., Egli, C. J., Gamble, H. L., & Midgett, E. (2010). Lifestyle interventions for youth who are overweight: A meta-analytic review. Health Psychology 29, 91-101.
• Kitzmann, K. M., Dalton, W. T., & Buscemi, J. (2008).  Beyond parenting practices: Family context and the treatment of pediatric obesity. Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies, 57, 13-23.
• Hsueh, Y., & Kitzmann, K. M. (2007). Barbara Rogoff's sociocultural theory. In Y. Hsueh & J. Zhu (Eds.), Early childhood education in ecological perspectives (pp. 125-154). Shanghai: East China Normal University Press.