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Valerie Simon

Professor
Clinical Area Chair

313-664-2540 (lab)

Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute
71 E. Ferry

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One primary focus of our current research is youth exposure to interpersonal violence. Our research questions concern how and for whom violence exposure undermines psychosocial development during adolescence and emerging adulthood We use a multi-method approach that includes virtual reality procedures as well as questionnaires, interviews, and physiological measures.
Our research also examines adolescents' romantic and sexual development from a holistic perspective that integrates the risky and rewarding aspects of teens' experiences We are interested in further elucidating the timing, sequencing, and quality of adolescents' experiences as well as factors the promote or undermine positive development in these key domains of development. Our measurement models include questionnaires as well as novel life history calendar approaches to better understand nuances in age typical and age atpyical experiences

Interpersonal Violence Exposure and Adolescents’ Romantic Competence (Betty Nietzel Faculty Grant)Interpersonal Violence Exposure and Adolescents’ Romantic Competence (Betty Nietzel Faculty Grant)
Assessing the Interpersonal Dynamics of Violence Exposure (NIH HD092956)
The Interpersonal Dynamics of Violence Exposure and Adolescents' Autonomic Regulation (NIH HD099700)
“Adolescents’ dissociative responses to age-normative social stress: links with violence exposure and mental health.” Awarded by the WSU Provost's Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health (SBDH) to Nicole Kouri, M.A.

Mentoring of predoctoral research fellows at the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute
Supervision of undergraduate honors theses in Psychology
Supervision of undergraduate research experiences (directed study)