Dr. Sarah Dow-Fleisner
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Resilience, child and maternal health and wellbeing, substance use and mental Illness, child welfare, foster care and adoption, social work, child development, marginalized and vulnerable communities and how they thrive, supporting youth in not vaping, women survivors of intimate partner violence who received traumatic head injuries and how they thrive
Media
What a ‘return to normalcy’ in a post-COVID world means for children
Adoption assessment tool lags behind societal changes
Science DailyOnline
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190311101209.htm
Biography
Dr. Sarah Dow-Fleisner's research integrates social work, clinical developmental psychology, and public health traditions to generate a more holistic understanding of the pathways to successful adaptation for high risk populations. In particular, she focuses on development trajectories and resilient functioning for children and families in high-risk contexts (e.g. substance use, mental illness, child welfare involvement); parent-child and sibling relationships in families experiencing parental mental illness and substance use; intervention and prevention programs for families and children; and the utilization of advanced statistical methodology to examine complex social phenomenon.