She is a faculty at Wayne State University's Infant Mental Health Dual Title Program and an affiliate faculty at the Merrill-Palmer Skillman Institute. In addition, Dr. Bocknek is an adjunct research investigator at University of Michigan Health System's Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Bocknek is interested in studying socioemotional development, specifically the development of emotion regulation competencies, of infants and toddlers as it relates to parenting and family processes in at-risk groups and the ways in which these competencies may be resilience promoting strategies for young children who have risk factors for developing psychopathology.