She teaches and provides clinical supervision in Western Michigan University’s clinical psychology doctoral program. She received her PhD from the University of Missouri and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Her research interests include prevention of unintentional child injuries and child maltreatment. Her recent research has focused on the role of caregiver supervision in children’s unintentional injuries. She is also interested in research on dissemination of evidence-based child maltreatment interventions.