Curriculum Vitae Abigail H. Gewirtz I. Identifying Information

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Gewirtz, A.H., CV, 2017
Curriculum Vitae
Abigail H. Gewirtz

University of Minnesota
Department of Family Social Science
& Institute of Child Development
290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108
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email: [email protected]

I. Identifying Information

Academic Rank
Professor – Department of Family Social Science and Institute of Child Development
Education
Degree Institution Date
B.Sc. (Hons.) Department of Psychology, University College London, England 1986
M.A. (Magna Cum Laude) Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 1991
Ph.D., Department of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University 1997

License
2001 Licensed psychologist, State of Minnesota, #LP4278
1998 Licensed psychologist, State of Connecticut, #002202

Positions/Employment

2015- John and Nancy Lindahl Leadership Professor, with tenure, Department of
Family Social Science & Institute of Child Development, University of
Minnesota
2013- Director, Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health,
University of Minnesota
2011-2015 Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Family Social Science &
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
2007-2011 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Family Social Science &
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
2000- Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
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2006-2007 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Psychiatry, University
of Minnesota
2002-2006 Research Associate, Institute of Child Development, University of
Minnesota
2000-2002 Senior Policy and Planning Associate, University of Minnesota Law
School
2000-2002 Instructor, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine.
2000-2005 Research Director, Harriet Tubman Center
1996-2000 Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University
School of Medicine.
1997-1999 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
1995-1996 Predoctoral Psychology Intern, VA Medical Center, West Haven, CT.

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

Society for Prevention Research
National Council on Family Relations
Society for Research in Child Development
American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
Minnesota Psychological Association
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Honors and awards
University of Minnesota

2015 Endowed Professorship: John and Nancy Lindahl Leadership Professor,
College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota
2012 Faculty Summer Research Award, College of Education and Human
Development, University of Minnesota
2009 Rising Star Award, Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle, University
of Minnesota
2008 New Career Excellence Award, College of Education and Human
Development, University of Minnesota

External Sources
2015 Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award Finalist,
Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University (MFRI)
2013 Finalist/alternate, Fulbright Faculty Scholar Award
2013 Safe Start Center: Women Making an Impact on Children’s Exposure to
Violence http://safestartcenter.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/profiles-of-
women-making-an-impact-on-cev-abigail-gewirtz-ph-d-l-p/
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2011 Professional of the Year Award, National Alliance on Mental Illness,
Minnesota Chapter
2000 Fellowship, American Psychoanalytic Association

Visiting Professorships
2013, Spring Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Israel
2010, Spring Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Israel

II. Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity

Grants and Contracts

External Sources

Received at the University of Minnesota:

Principal Investigator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Center for Resilient Families. Award # 1U79SM080009-01, 2016–2021
Funding: $2,999,978

Principal Investigator
Department of Defense
SMART Optimization of a Parenting Program for Active-Duty Families.
Award # W81XWH-16-1-0407, 2016-2020
Funding: $4,304,180

Principal Investigator
US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Experiment Station (AES)
Mindfulness and Emotion Coaching Changes Resulting from a Parenting
Training Intervention Trial for Military Families; 2015-2018
Direct Costs:

Principal Investigator
Department of Defense
Comparing web, group, and telehealth formats of a military parenting
program. Award # W81XWH1410143, 2014-2019.
Funding: $3,051,000.

Completed:
Principal Investigator
Sesame Workshop #303131
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Evaluation of the Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions Program.
Funding: $170,000

Principal Investigator
Minority supplement to R01 DA030114-05S1
National Institute of Drug Abuse, 7/1/14-6/30/16
Direct costs: $72,960

Co-Principal Investigator
Brion Marquez, David DeGarmo, Co-PIs
National Institute of Child Health and Development
After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT), 1R44HD066896-01.
Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research Grant; 2013-2015
Direct costs: $750,000

Co-Investigator
Lynne M. Borden, PI
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
The Center for Research and Outreach: Military REACH, 2013-48710-21515;
2013-2015

Co-Investigator
James Snyder, PI
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Preventing Military Post-Deployment Adjustment Problems: Key Family
Processes, R21; 2013-2015
Direct costs: $398,000

Principal Investigator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Midwest Continuum of Care for Child Trauma. 2012-2016
Direct costs: $1,600,000

Principal Investigator
Minnesota Department of Human Services
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy Learning Collaborative. 2013-
2015
Direct costs: $95,000

Co-Principal Investigator
Gerald August, PI
National Institute of Mental Health
Developing Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research,
P20MH085987. 2010-2015
Direct costs: $3,000,000
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Principal Investigator
National Institute of Drug Abuse
Effectiveness of a web-enhanced parenting program for military families,
1R01DA030114. 2010-2015
Direct costs: $2,500,000

Principal Investigator
US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Experiment Station (AES)
Assessing family emotion communication in the context of a parent training
intervention trial for military families; 2012-2015
Direct Costs: $133,808

Principal Investigator
National Institute of Drug Abuse
Supplement, NIDA Summer Fellowship for Underrepresented Students; 2013
Direct costs: $15,811

Principal Investigator
National Institute of Drug Abuse
Supplement, NIDA Summer Fellowship for Underrepresented Students; 2012
Direct costs: $30,000

Principal Investigator
National Institute on Child Health and Development
After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT), 1R43HD066896-01.
Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research Grant, 2010-2012
Direct costs: $250,000

Principal Investigator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Minnesota Continuum of Care in Child Trauma; 2009-2012
Direct costs: $1,200,000

Principal Investigator
US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Experiment Station (AES)
Implementation of a parent training intervention for families in supportive
housing; 2009-2012

Principal investigator
Minnesota Department of Human Services, Children’s Mental Health Division
Statewide dissemination of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; 2009-
2012
Direct costs: $95,000

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Co-investigator
Ann Masten – Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation.
Executive Function in Learning and School Success (BCS-0745643); 2008-
2011
Direct costs: $467,609

Principal investigator
JBS International; Safe Start Center
Development of an inventory of evidence-based practices for children
exposed to violence; 2009-2010
Direct costs: $90,000

Co-Investigator
Gerald August (PI)
National Institutes of Mental Health
Integrating Prevention Services within a Community System-of-Care (R01);
MH074610-01; 2005-2010
Direct Costs: $2,490,000

Co-investigator
Nicki Crick, Principal Investigator
University of MN, International Research Circle Partnership Award
Acholi Partnership Initiative; 2008-2009
Direct costs: $25,000

Principal investigator
Department of Human Services, State of MN, Children’s Mental Health Division
contract Statewide dissemination of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy; 2008-2009
Direct costs: $95,000

Principal Investigator
Minneapolis Public Schools contract
Training of Minneapolis School Social Workers in increasing access to care for
traumatized children; 2008-2009
Direct costs: $12,000

Principal Investigator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Integrating evidence-based treatment into community systems of care -
Minnesota Child Response Center; 2005-2009
Direct costs: $1,600,000

Principal Investigator
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National Center for Childhood Traumatic Stress
Development of a web-based curriculum “Listening to the voices of traumatized
African American families;” 2007-2008
Direct costs: $5,000

Principal Investigator
City of Minneapolis contract
Child Development Policing Program; 2006-2008
Direct costs: $40,000

Principal Investigator
Department of Human Services, State of Minnesota, Children’s Mental Health
Division. Assessing Trauma in Children conference presentation and
coordination; 2007.
Direct costs: $5,000

Principal Investigator
University of Minnesota graduate school
Recovery and functioning of mothers and children following domestic
violence- pilot longitudinal study; 2004-2005
Direct costs: $10,000

University Sources

Principal Investigator
Office of the Provost, Research Infrastructure Investment Award & Compact
Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health; 2013-2015
Direct costs: $1,000,000

Principal Investigator
College of Education and Human Development
Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health; 2013-2015
Direct costs: $500,000

Principal Investigator
Grant-in-Aid
Parenting and family functioning among Israeli families exposed to political
violence. 2012-2013
Direct costs: $29,554.

Principal Investigator
College of Education and Human Development
Extension Block Grant
After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools; 2011-2013
Direct costs: $40,000
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Received at another institution

Principal Investigator
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University
Risk behavior and functioning in HIV-affected adolescents; 1999-2000
Direct costs: $50,000

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles
Asterisks (*) indicate graduate student or post-doctoral fellow co-authors.

Chesmore, A.*, He, Y., Zhang, N.*, Gewirtz, A.H. (in press). Parent discrepancies in
ratings of child behaviors following wartime deployment. Journal of Traumatic
Stress. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22257
Gewirtz, A.H., Lee, S.S., August, G.J., & He, Y. (in press). Does giving parents their
choice of interventions for child behavior problems improve child outcomes?
Prevention Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11121-018-0865-x
He, Y., Gewirtz, A.H., Lee, S., & August, G. (in press). Do Parent Preferences of Child
Conduct Problem Interventions Impact Parenting Outcomes? A Pilot Study in
Community Children’s Mental Health Settings. Journal of Marital and Family
Therapy. DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12310
Chesmore, A.*, Piehler, T., & Gewirtz, A.H. (2017). PTSD as a moderator of a parenting
intervention for military families. Advance Online Publication. Journal of Family
Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000366
Gewirtz, A.H. (2017). Letter from the new Editor- in- Chief. International Journal of
Psychology, 52, 261-263. DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12440
Gewirtz, A.H., DeGarmo, D., & Zamir, O. (2017a). One year outcomes of a parenting
program for military families: After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting
Tools/ADAPT. Advance online publication. Prevention Science. DOI:
10.1007/s11121-017-0839-4
Gewirtz, A.H., DeGarmo, D., & Zamir, O.* (2017b). Testing a military family stress
model. Family Process. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1111/famp.12282
Gewirtz, A.H., & Youssef, A.* (2017). Introduction to the Special Section: Advances in
psychological prevention and treatment interventions to promote children’s
mental health. International Journal of Psychology, 52, 82-86. DOI:
10.1002/ijop.12417
Pinna, K.*, Hanson, S., Zhang, N.*, & Gewirtz, A.H. (2017). Fostering resilience in
National Guard & Reserve families: A contextual adaptation of an evidence-based
parenting program. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 87, 185-193. DOI:
10.1037/ort0000221.
Tangir, G. Dekel, R. Lavi, T., Gewirtz, A.H., & Zamir, O. (2017). Children's adjustment
in a climate of political violence: Comparing mother and child reports. Journal of
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Child and Family Studies. Online advance publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-
017-0857-7
Zamir, O.*, Gewirtz, A.H., Labella, M., DeGarmo, D.S., & Snyder, J. (2017).
Experiential Avoidance, Dyadic Interaction and Relationship Quality in the Lives
of Veterans and their Partners. Journal of Family Issues. Advance online
publication. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X17698182
Zamir, O., Gewirtz, A.H., & Zhang, N. (2017). Actor-partner associations of mindfulness
and marital quality after military deployment. Family Relations. DOI:
10.1111/fare.12266
Zhang, N.*, Rudi, J.H., Zamir, O., & Gewirtz, A.H. (2017). Parent engagement in online
mindfulness exercises of a parent training program for postdeployed military
families. Mindfulness. DOI: 10.1007/s12671-017-0810-2
Donisch, K.*, Bray, C., & Gewirtz, A.H. (2016). Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Mental
Health, and Education Providers’ Conceptualizations of Trauma-Informed
Practice. Child Maltreatment, 21, 125-34. DOI: 10.1177/1077559516633304
Doty, J.L.*, Rudi, J. H.*, Pinna, K.L.*, Hanson, S.K., & Gewirtz, A.H. (2016). If You
Build It, Will They Come? Patterns of Internet-Based and Face-To-Face
Participation in a Parenting Program for Military Families. Journal of Medical
Internet Research, 18, e169. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4445
Gewirtz, A.H., DeGarmo, D.S., & Zamir, O.* (2016). Effects of a military parenting
program on parental distress and suicidal ideation: After Deployment Adaptive
Parenting Tools. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 46 (Suppl. 1), S23-31.
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12255
Piehler, T.F., Ausherbauer, K.*, Gewirtz, A., & Gliske, K.* (2016). Improving Child
Peer Adjustment in Military Families Through Parent Training: The Mediational
Role of Parental Locus of Control. The Journal of Early Adolescence. DOI:
10.1177/0272431616678990
Sherman, M.D., Gress-Smith, J.L., Straits, K. Larson, J.L., & Gewirtz, A.H. (2016).
Veterans’ perceptions of the impact of their PTSD on their parenting and children.
Psychological Services, 13, 401–410. DOI: 10.1037/ser0000101
Snyder, J., Gewirtz, A.H., Schrepferman, L.P.*, Gird, S.R., Quattlebaum, J., Pauldine,
M.R., Elish, K., Zamir, O.*, Hayes, C. (2016). Parent-child relationship quality
and family transmission of parent posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and
child externalizing and internalizing symptoms following fathers’ exposure to
combat-related trauma. Development and Psychopathology, 28, 947-969. DOI:
10.1017/S095457941600064X
Tangir, G., Dekel, R., Lavi, T., Gewirtz, A.H., & Zamir, O. (2016). The Contribution of
Maternal Care and Control, and Community Type to Children’s Adjustment to
Political Violence. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and
Policy. DOI: 10.1037/tra0000209
Utržan, D.S.*, Piehler, T.F., Gewirtz, A.H., & August, G.J. (2016). Stressful Life Events
and Perceived Parental Control in Formerly Homeless Families: Impact on Child-
Internalizing Symptoms. The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. DOI:
10.1037/ort0000236
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He, Y*., Gewirtz, A., Lee, S., Morrell, N., & August, G. (2015). A randomized
preference trial to inform personalization of a parent training program
implemented in community mental health clinics. Translational Behavioral
Medicine, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1007/s13142-015-0366-4
He, Y. L., & Dworkin, J. (2015). Parental Emotion Socialization in Military Families.
Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts, 5, 1-19.
Brockman, C*., Snyder, J., Gewirtz, A., Gird, S., Quattlebaum, J., Schmidt, N., Pauldine,
M., Elish, K., Schrepferman, L., Zettle, R., & DeGarmo, D. (2015). Relationship
of service members’ deployment trauma, PTSD symptoms and experiential
avoidance to postdeployment family reengagement. Journal of Family
Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000152
Davis, L.*, Hanson, S., Zamir, O.*, Gewirtz, A.H., & DeGarmo, D. (2015). Associations
of contextual risk and protective factors with fathers’ parenting practices in the
post-deployment environment. Psychological Services, 12, 250-260.
Gewirtz, A.H., DeGarmo, D., Lee, S., & August, G.J. (2015). Two-year outcomes from
the Early Risers prevention trial with formerly homeless families residing in
supportive housing. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 242-252. doi:
10.1037/fam0000066
Gewirtz, A.H., Davis, L.*, McMorris, B., & Hanson, S. (2014). Family adjustment of
deployed and non-deployed mothers in families with a parent deployed to Iraq or
Afghanistan. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, Advance online
publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036235
Gewirtz, A.H., Pinna, K*., Hanson, S.K., & Brockberg, D*. (2014). Promoting parenting
to support reintegrating military families: After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting
Tools. Psychological Services, 11, 31-40. doi: 10.1037/a0034134
Piehler, T. F., Bloomquist, M. L., August, G. J., Gewirtz, A. H., Lee, S. S., & Lee, W. S.
(2014). Executive Functioning as a Mediator of Conduct Problems Prevention in
Children of Homeless Families Residing in Temporary Supportive Housing: A
Parallel Process Latent Growth Modeling Approach. Journal of abnormal child
psychology, 42, 681-692.
Forgatch, M.S., Patterson, G.R., & Gewirtz, A.H. (2013). Looking forward: The promise
of widespread implementation of parent training programs. Perspectives on
Psychological Science, 8, 682-694.
Perlman, S., Cowen, B., Gewirtz, A., Haskett, M., & Stokes*, L. (2012). Promoting
positive parenting in the context of homelessness. American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry, 82, 402-412.
Narayan*, A. J., Herbers, J. E., Plowman*, E. J., Gewirtz, A. H., & Masten, A. S. (2012).
Expressed emotion in homeless families: A methodological study of the five-
minute speech sample. Journal of Family Psychology, 26(4), 648.
Gewirtz, A.H., DeGarmo, D., & Medhanie, A.* (2011). Effect of mother’s parenting on
children’s internalizing trajectories following partner violence. Journal of Family
Psychology, 25, 29-38.
Gewirtz, A.H., Erbes, C., Polusny, M.A., Forgatch, M.S., & DeGarmo, D. (2011).
Supporting military families during and after deployment: The need for parenting
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