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Nancy Gonzales

Nancy Gonzales, Ph.D.

The primary research areas for Dr. Gonzales are cultural and contextual influences on adolescent and family health, particularly within minority communities. Recent work includes developing culturally sensitive interventions for Mexican American and African American families such as the Bridges to High School Project, a multi-cohort, culturally targeted intervention designed to prevent school dropout and mental health disorders for low-income adolescents.

Positions

  • Women and Philanthropy Dean's Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  • Co-director, Principal Research Core, Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University

 

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Washington

 

Relevant Publications

  • Gonzales, N. A., Dumka, L. E., Mauricio, A. M., & Germain, M. (2007). Building bridges: Strategies to promote academic and psychological resilience for adolescents of Mexican origin. In J. E. Lansford, K. Deater-Deckard, M. H. Bornstein (Eds.), Immigrant families in contemporary society (pp. 268-286). New York: Guilford Press.
  • Carpentier, F.R., Mauricio, A.M. & Gonzales, N.A. (2007). Engaging Mexican origin families in a school-based preventive intervention. Journal of Primary Prevention, 28(6), 521-546.
  • Formoso, D., Gonzales, N. A., Barrera, M., Jr., & Dumka, L. E. (2007). Interparental relations, maternal employment, and fathering in Mexican American families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69(1), 26-39.
  • Gonzales, N. A., Deardorff, J., Formoso, D., Barr, A., & Barrera, M., Jr. (2006). Family mediators of the relation between acculturation and adolescent mental health. Family Relations, 55(3), 279-291.
  • Deardorff, J., Gonzales, N. A., Christopher, F. S., Roosa, M. W., & Millsap, R. E. (2006). Early puberty and adolescent pregnancy: The influence of alcohol use. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 45(6), 763-763.

 

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