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New Online Courses Help Mental Health Clinicians Support First Responder Communities

UCF RESTORES, a nonprofit clinical research center and treatment clinic at the University of Central Florida led by Dr. Deborah Beidel, is working with 3C Institute to update and expand its catalog of e-learning courses. Two trainings, Trauma Management Therapy (TMT) and Understanding Firefighter Culture, are now available. TMT is an evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic […]

Top 5 Benefits of Game-Based Assessment

Game-based social and emotional learning (SEL) assessments are quickly becoming more popular. According to SEL expert and 3C Institute CEO Melissa DeRosier, PhD, game-based assessments have five main benefits: Games provide unique opportunities for social interaction. It may seem counterintuitive to use games to teach social and emotional skills, but an online game provides a […]

3C Celebrates Over 20 Years of Improving Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Health

3C Institute is celebrating over 20 years of providing custom software solutions for social, emotional, and behavioral health. To reflect on the company’s impact over the past two decades, CEO and founder Dr. Melissa DeRosier sat down with one of our editors to discuss how 3C started, what it has accomplished, and where it is headed. […]

Zoo U: Combine Game-Based Direct Assessment With Surveys

Zoo U has received another strong review. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a review of innovative tools for assessing social emotional skills. In the article, OECD praises Zoo U for its cutting-edge features, including: Assessing multiple skills in a single game Using direct and indirect choices to assess skills Creating an immersive, […]

With Quest, the Annie E. Casey Foundation Gives Youth a Voice

A primary goal of Quest, our online data collection platform, is to give youth a voice in the assessment process. Too often, youth are left out of that process, with adults providing the data that guide decisions about young people’s lives. Before online survey platforms, administering paper-and-pencil surveys was too expensive and time-consuming to collect data with […]

Protect the Validity of Your Online Survey Data

Fraudulent responses to online surveys are increasing. Bots search the Internet for study recruitment postings, and scammers pretend to be appropriate respondents to get paid for study participation. The result is a corruption of research data, invalidating findings and undermining science.  Our Experience Our own study recruitment efforts have encountered this problem. Recently, we posted […]

RAND, PCANC, and NCSMH Use Quest to Improve Outcomes

Partner Spotlight Our partners across the globe use Quest to meet their data collection goals. They know that finding the right data collection platform is hard. So we made Quest easy. Create survey items Deploy surveys Monitor responses Code and visualize data Export results And more! Right now, our partners at RAND, Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina (PCANC), and […]

Our Partners Rely on Quest

Quest Makes Research Possible Everyday, our partners at RAND, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Rocketship Public Schools DC (RPS DC), use Quest to reach people all over the United States. START YOUR QUEST Single Stop U.S.A. and RAND As low-income college students face growing financial strains, Single Stop U.S.A. has worked tirelessly to assist […]

Discover Quest

Quest is a cutting-edge online data collection platform designed to meet the needs of researchers and providers working with any age group—adults, teens, and children as young as five years old. Quest lets you: Create survey items Deploy surveys Monitor responses Code and visualize data Export results and more! With a 12-month Quest license, you control […]

Trauma Aware Schools: A New Site for a New Era

Trauma Aware Schools As students and school staff go through their days, the effects of trauma are all too visible. From cognitive delays to teacher burnout, trauma has the potential to touch nearly every aspect of the school experience. In a 2007 study, researchers found that more than two-thirds of children have experienced at least […]

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DEB CHILDRESS, PHD

Chief of Research and Learning Content

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Childress obtained her PhD in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to 3C Institute, she served as a research associate and a postdoctoral fellow in the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working on a longitudinal imaging study aimed at identifying the early markers of autism through behavioral and imaging methodologies. She has 19 years of autism research experience, during which she has examined the behavioral, personality, and cognitive characteristics of individuals with autism and their family members. Dr. Childress also has experience developing behavioral and parent report measurement tools, coordinating multi-site research studies, and collecting data from children and families. She has taught courses and seminars in general child development, autism, and cognitive development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Expertise

  • autism
  • early development
  • behavioral measurement
  • integrating behavioral and biological measurement

Education

  • Postdoctoral fellowship, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (Institutional NRSA-NICHD), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • PhD, developmental psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • BS, psychology (minor in sociology), University of Iowa

Selected Publications

  • Elison, J. T., Wolff, J. J., Heimer, D. C., Paterson, S. J., Gu, H., Hazlett, H. C., Styner, M, Gerig, G., & Piven, J. (in press). Frontolimbic neural circuitry at 6 months predicts individual differences in joint attention at 9 months. Developmental Science.
  • Wassink, T. H., Vieland, V. J., Sheffield, V. C., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., Childress, D. & Piven, J. (2008). Posterior probability of linkage analysis of autism dataset identifies linkage to chromosome 16. Psychiatric Genetics,18(2),85-91.
  • Losh, M., Childress, D., Lam K. & Piven, J. (2008). Defining key features of the broad autism phenotype: A comparison across parents of multiple- and single-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 147B(4):424-33.
  • Wassink, T. H., Piven, J., Vieland, V. J., Jenkins, L., Frantz R., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., … Sheffield, V.C. (2005). Evaluation of the chromosome 2q37.3 gene CENTG2 as an autism susceptibility gene. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 136, 36-44.
  • Barrett, S., Beck, J., Bernier, R., Bisson, E., Braun, T., Casavant, T., Childress, D., … Vieland, V. (1999). An autosomal genomic screen for autism. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 88, 609-615. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19991215)88:63.0.CO;2-L
  • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Landa, R., Santangelo, S., Jacobi, D. & Childress, D. (1997). Personality and language characteristics in parents from multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 74, 398-411.
  • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Jacobi, D., Childress, D. & Arndt, S. (1997). Broader autism phenotype: Evidence from a family history study of multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 185-190.