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Thomas Power

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Chair

 

Education/Training

• Ph.D. Developmental Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1980
• M.A. Developmental Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1980
• B.S. Psychology Michigan State University 1976

 

Professional Experience

July 2001 - Present

Chair, Department of Human Development, Washington State University

August 2000 - Present

Professor, Department of Human Development, Washington State University

September 1994 - August 2000

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Houston

September 1986 - August 1994

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Houston

August 1980 - August 1986

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Houston

 

Areas of Emphasis

• Social Development
• Parent-Child Relations
• Stress, Coping, & Health Behaviors
• Children's Play
• Obesity Prevention

Current Research

My current interests are on the role of parents in the socialization of health promoting and health compromising behaviors in children and adolescents. Current projects include: parental influences on children's coping with chronic disease; parental influences on children's appraisal of and coping with minor and major life events; and the prevention of obesity in early adolescence.

Publications

Olvera, N., Sharma, S. Suminski, R., Rodriguez, A., & Power, T. G. (in press). BMI trends in Mexican American children in relation to maternal BMI. Ethnicity & Disease.

Hughes, S. O., Patrick, H., Power, T. G., Fisher, J. O., Anderson, C. B., & Nicklas, T. A. (2007). The impact of child care providers’ feeding on children’s food consumption. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 28, 100-107.

Hughes, S. O., Anderson, C. B., Power, T. G., Micheli, N., Jaramillo, S., & Nicklas, T. A. (2006). Measuring feeding in low-income, African-American and Hispanic parents. Appetite, 46, 215-223.

Power, T. G. (2000). Play and exploration in children and animals. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. French adaptation: Jacob, S., & Power, T. G. (2006). Petits joueurs. Les jeux des enfants et des jeunes mammiferes. Paris: Sprimont

Hughes, S. O., Power, T. G., Fisher, J. O., Mueller, S., Nicklas, T. A. (2005). Revisiting a neglected construct: Parenting styles in a child-feeding context. Appetite, 44, 83-92.

Power, T. G., Stewart, C., Hughes, S. O., & Arbona, C. (2005). Predicting patterns of adolescent alcohol use: A longitudinal study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 66, 74-81.

Power, T. G. (2004). Stress and coping in childhood: The parents' role. Parenting: Science and Practice, 4, 271-317.

Vannorsdall, T., Dahlquist, L., Pendley, J. S., & Power, T. G. (2004). The relation between nonessential touch and children's distress during lumbar punctures. Children's Health Care, 33, 299-315.

Kalpidou, M. D., Power, T. G., Cherry, K. E., & Gottfried, N. (2004). Regulation of emotion and behavior among 3- and 5-year-olds. The Journal of General Psychology, 131, 159-178.

Hasan, N., & Power, T. G. (2004). Children's appraisal of major life events. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74, 26-32.