Barbara Burns, PhD

As of September 2012, after 24 years as a professor of psychology at U of Louisville, Dr. Barbara M. Burns has taken a position as Professor and Director of Liberal Studies at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.

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Barbara Burns's email at Santa Clara University is bmburns@scu.edu

Barbara Burns's email at University of Louisville is bmburn01@louisville.edu

 

 

 

Dr. Barbara Burns is continuing to collaborate with Dr. Lora Haynes on our community-based research initiative called The Resilient Families Project (RFP). The RFP focuses on strengthening attachment and self regulation in children and families experiencing homelessness.

Barbara M. Burns is a developmental psychologist whose research has focused on cognitive and social-emotional factors that support school readiness. Her research has focused on parent-child attachment and its significance for the development of self-regulation processes in young children. Dr. Burns directed the Early Intervention for Families Lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville from 1988-2012. Together with her team of developmental and clinical graduate students in psychology, she worked to design and evaluate the impact of parent-centered interventions for high risk families.

Mentorship for Graduate Students (University of Louisville)

At the University of Louisville I had the honor and privilege to serve as the Major Advisor for MA and Ph.D. degrees for the students listed below. I have listed their completion date and have also included their current academic, consulting and government positions. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work with these impressive people.

  • August, 1991 Laura Ford, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville.
    Current Position: Senior Research Consultant, Human Resources Research Organization HumRRO, Fort Knox, KY.
  • December, 1995 Cathy Emery, Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville.
    Current Position: Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Washington, DC. (co-directed by Dr. Melody Carswell).
  • May, 1997 Lora Schlewitt Haynes, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
  • December, 1997 Holly Irwin, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Professor, Department of Psychology, Dean of Social Sciences/Professional Studies, Point Loma Nazarene University, Point Loma, CA.
  • May, 2001 Dena Dossett, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Senior Advisor, Research Evaluation and Accountability Division, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY.
  • May, 2001 Stuart Miles, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville.Current Position: Executive Director, Bowne DecisionQuest, Louisville, KY.
  • May, 2001 Robert F. Bettler, Jr., M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Senior Research Associate and Consultant, Bowne DecisionQuest, Atlanta, GA.
  • August, 2002 Florence Chang, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Advisor, Research, Evaluation and Accountability Division, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY.
  • December, 2004 Julia Robinson, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Academic Administrative Specialist, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
  • December, 2004 Elizabeth Snyder Fickler, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Research Scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC.
  • December, 2007 Danielle Brown, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, DC.
  • May, 2008 Ruby C. Harris Germeroth, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), Denver, CO.
  • May, 2011 Crystal Day, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Research Scientist, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), Denver, CO.
  • August, 2011 Paulette Flores, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Clinical Psychologist II, Hazard Kentucky Mental Heath Center, Hazard, KY.
  • December, 2011 Tara Weatherholt, M.A., Ph.D., Early Intervention for Families Lab, U of Louisville. Current Position: Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Research Mentorship of Undergraduate Students (University of Louisville)

At the University of Louisville, I supervised undergraduate research projects for more than 100 students and was the chair of more than 25 senior undergraduate honors theses. More than half of the undergraduates who have worked with me and my graduate students in the Early Intervention for Families Lab continued in professional school, medical school, or graduate training programs in developmental psychology, counseling psychology, genetic counseling, educational psychology, school psychology, social work or clinical psychology. Drs. Irwin, Dossett, Chang, Snyder Fickler, Miles, Weatherholt worked with me during their undergraduate years before their Ph.D. graduate training at University of Louisville.