Her work focuses primarily on teaching and research on family and interpersonal processes. Her expertise lies with risk and resilience factors relating to adjustments in stepfamilies. Her research has been published in American and European scholarly publications and she has presented the results of her work in Canada and the United States. She favours an interactionist approach to the development of a conceptual model for the identification of individual, interpersonal and systemic adaptation profiles in families experiencing multiple family transitions.