Family Research Consortium IV

History
 
The Family Research Consortium (FRC) was established with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health in 1985 to improve the quality of investigation and to stimulate broader collaboration in the field of family research. Four successive generations of the Consortium have been funded, with each focusing on a distinct theme and comprising a different interdisciplinary team of senior researchers.

Consortium I (1985 - 1990), directed by E. Mavis Heatherington and David Reiss, focused on issues of psychopathology and family processes. The mission of Consortium II (1993 - 1998), led by Martha Cox and Rand Conger, was to advance research on family risk and resilience. Consortium III (1999 - 2003) was directed by Linda Burton at Penn State University, Ana Mari Cauce at the University of Washington, and Mark Appelbaum of the University of California at San Diego. It was designed to promote intellectual exchange, collaborative research, and training on socioeconomic and racial/ethnic diversity, family processes, as well as child and adolescent mental health.

Since 1986, each generation of the Consortium has held annual Summer Institutes bringing together an interdisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers to focus on a specific and timely theme in family research. Each year's Institute provides a forum for dissemination, evaluation, and discussion of important new findings and developments in research design, methods, and analysis in the family research field.

For more information contact:

Marisa Lemorande
Project Manager
Family Research Consortium IV
FRC4@ucla.edu

Mailing Address
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Los Angeles, CA 90024

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