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Dr. Skowron is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and runs the Family Biobehavioral Health Lab. She is a certified PCIT therapist and Level I Within-Agency Trainer.  Dr. Skowron earned her Ph.D. at the State University of New York, Albany, and completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. Following her post-doctoral fellowship in child clinical psychology at the University of California, San Francisco's Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, she worked in the Irving B. Harris-funded Child Trauma Project at San Francisco General Hospital with Dr. Alicia Lieberman, evaluating attachment-based child-parent psychotherapy for mothers and preschool children from violent families. Dr. Skowron served as a former Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2009-2010); as chair and member of various NIH scientific review panels; and as President of the University Senate in 2019-20. Dr. Skowron and her students study the effectiveness of child and family interventions, including Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and a newly developed trauma-informed adaptation to PCIT, for supporting caregivers and strengthening biological and behavioral markers of emotion regulation and self-control in caregivers and children.

Dr. Skowron will not be accepting new graduate students for Fall 2025.