**As of November 2024, this website will no longer be updated. Dr. Howell is now a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is no longer accepting new students at the University of Memphis. If you would like to contact her at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, please email her at khhowell@wisc.edu. If you'd like to see our future updates, please visit our new website at https://reachlab.psych.wisc.edu/ **
**As of November 2024, this website will no longer be updated. Dr. Howell is now a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is no longer accepting new students at the University of Memphis. If you would like to contact her at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, please email her at khhowell@wisc.edu. If you'd like to see our future updates, please visit our new website at https://reachlab.psych.wisc.edu/ **
Directed by Dr. Kathryn Howell, the Resilience Emerging Amidst Childhood Hardships (REACH) Lab seeks to examine pathways to risk and resilience among families and children who have been exposed to potentially traumatic experiences, such as exposure to interpersonal violence and loss.Â
Directed by Dr. Kathryn Howell, the Resilience Emerging Amidst Childhood Hardships (REACH) Lab seeks to examine pathways to risk and resilience among families and children who have been exposed to potentially traumatic experiences, such as exposure to interpersonal violence and loss.Â
Specific interests of the lab include:
Specific interests of the lab include:
Environmental, psychological, and physiological mechanisms that promote resilience or reduce risk for psychiatric problems in the context of early traumatic stress.
Evidence-based interventions for children and families exposed to traumatic events, such as family violence.
Community-oriented studies to explore pathways to positive and negative functioning following exposure to traumatic events during childhood.
Please visit the available pages and links for more information on our research focus, current projects, lab members, publications, presentations, and more!
