Relationships: Supporting Healthy Interactions

Humans function best when they are surrounded by supportive and healthy relationships. Our research helps us learn how to support secure relationships and make our interactions more constructive.. 

Getting Started: An Insider’s View of an International Longitudinal Study

Author E. Mark Cummings describes how this study was launched and details the vital role played by colleagues in Northern Ireland. He explains the many contributions of both graduate and undergraduate students, noting that many of them went on to use on their project experiences in building later careers in academia or related contexts. The study was published in the November 2020 issue of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development titled, Youth in Northern Ireland: Linking Violence Exposure, Emotional Insecurity, and the Political Macrosystem.

To learn more about the many projects of the Shaw Center, please use the links below.

• Adolescent Parenting Project
• Adventures in Parenting
• BRAVE Young Families
• Children and Marital Conflict
• Communication and Family Relations Project
• Couples and Kids
• Family Communication Project
• Family Interaction Study
• Family Life Project
• Family Lifestyles Project
• Latino Families and Mental Health Study: The “Sequimos Adelante” Project
• Me and My Family
• My Baby and Me
• Notre Dame Babies and Families
• Notre Dame Family and Babies Study
• Parenting for the First Time
• Promoting Positive Parenting
• Seguimos Avanzando
• The Father’s Project
• The Happy Family Project
• The Heart to Heart Project
• The Northern Ireland Project
• The SPARC Project (Supporting Parent-Adolescent Relationships and Communication