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Prelow
Hazel M. Prelow, Ph.D.
University at Albany
Department of Psychology
Albany, NY 12222
Office Phone: (518) 442-5805
E-mail Address:
FACULTY APPOINTMENT
09/06 to present Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, New York
09/99 to 09/06 Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, New York
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
07/96 - 06/99 NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow
Child Mental Health: Primary Prevention
Prevention Research Center
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
08/95 to 07/96 Psychology Intern
Texas Woman's University Counseling Center (APA accredited)
Texas Woman’s University
Denton, Texas
EDUCATION
08/92 -08/96 Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
University of North Texas, Denton Texas (APA accredited)
Dissertation: Life stress, coping, and social support in adolescents: Cultural and ethnic differences
Major Professor: Charles A. Guarnaccia, Ph.D.
08/90 - 05/93 M.S. in School Psychology
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Thesis: Effects of parental substance abuse on behavior of school
children
Major Professor: Sander Martin, Ph.D.
09/69 - 12/72 B. A. in Government
Bishop College
Dallas, Texas
CREDENTIALS Licensed Psychologist
in New York and Texas
GRANTS
2009 - 2012
Role: Primary Investigator
1R03HD058028-01A1 O5/01/09-04/30/12
Funding Agency: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development
Project Title: Developmental Patterns of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Young Adolescents (awarded $100,000 direct cost)
2004
Role: Primary Investigator
Grant Preparation for Secondary Analyses of the Welfare, Children and Families: A Three City Study (Primary Investigator). Junior Scholar Award, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany (awarded $3,570)
2001
Role: Primary Investigator
An Ecological Model of Stress, Coping, and Problem Behaviors (Primary Investigator). University at Albany Faculty Research Award (awarded $9,997)
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
2010
Prelow, H. M., Weaver, S. R., & Bowman, M. A., Swenson, R. R. (2010). Predictors of
parenting among economically disadvantaged Latina mothers: Mediating and moderating
factors. Journal of Community Psychology, 38(7), 858-873
2008
Loukas, A., Prelow, H. M., Suizzo, M. A., Allua. S. ( 2008). Mothering and peer associations
mediate cumulative risk effects for Latino youth. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76-85.
2007
Prelow, H. M., & Loukas, A., & Jordan-Green, L. (2007). Socioenvironmental risk and adjustment in Latino youth: The mediating effects of family processes and social competence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 465-476.
Prelow, H. M., Bowman, M. A., & Weaver, S. R. (2007). Predictors of psychosocial well-being in urban African American and European American youth: The role of ecological factors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 543-553.
Loukas, A., Suizzo, M.A., & Prelow, H. M. ( 2007). Examining the protective functions of the family environment for economically disadvantaged Latino adolescents: What roles do gender and acculturation Play? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 489-501.
Bowman, M. A.1, Prelow, H. M,. & Weaver, S. R. ( 2007). Parenting behaviors, association with deviant peers, and delinquency in African American Adolescents: A mediated-moderation model. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 517-527.
Mosher, C. E.[1] & Prelow, H. M. (2007). Active and avoidant coping and coping efficacy as mediators of the relation of maternal involvement to depressive symptoms among urban adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 16(6), 876-887.
2006
Prelow, H. M., Weaver, S. R., & Swenson, R. (2006). Competence, self-esteem, and coping efficacy as mediators of ecological risk and adjustment in urban African American and European American youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 506-516.
Prelow, H. M., Mosher, C. E., & Bowman, M. A. (2006). Perceived Racial Discrimination, Social Support, and Psychological Adjustment Among Black Emerging Adults. Journal of Black Psychology, 32, 442-454.
Mosher, C. E.,[2] Prelow, H. M., Chen, W. W., & Yackel, M. E. (2006). The role of optimism in coping, social support, and depressive symptoms among Black college students. Journal of Black Psychology, 32(1), 72-86.
2005
Prelow, H. M., Weaver, S. R., Swenson, R. R., & Bowman, M. A. (2005). A preliminary investigation of the validity and reliability of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 in economically disadvantaged Latina American mothers. Journal of Community Psychology, 33(2), 139-155.
Swenson1, R. R. & Prelow, H. M. (2005). Relations of supportive parenting, ethnic identity, perceived efficacy, and psychosocial outcomes among African American and European American adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 28, 465-477.
Weaver1, S. R., & Prelow, H. M. (2005). Perceived maternal parenting style and problem behaviors: Mediation by association with deviant peers in urban African American and European American adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 14(3), 343-356.
2004
Prelow, H. M., Danoff-Burg, S., Swenson, R. R., & Pugliano, D. (2004). The impact of ecological risk and perceived discrimination on the psychological adjustment of African American and European American youth. Journal of Community Psychology, 32(4), 375-389.
Danoff-Burg, S., Prelow, H. M., & Swenson, R. R. (2004). Hope and life satisfaction in Black college students coping with race-related stress. Journal of Black Psychology, 30(2), 208-228.
Loukas, A., & Prelow, H. M. (2004) Externalizing and internalizing problems in Latino early adolescents: Risk, resource, and protective factors. Journal of Early Adolescence, 24(3), 250-273.
2003
Prelow, H. M., & Loukas, A. (2003). The role of resource, protective, and risk factors on academic achievement-related outcomes of economically disadvantaged Latino Youth. Journal of Community Psychology, 31(5), 513-529.
2002
Barrera, M. Jr., Prelow, H. M. Dumka, L. E., Gonzales, N. A., Knight, G. P., Michaels, M. L., Roosa, M. W. & Tein, J. Y. (2002). Pathways from family economic conditions to adolescents' distress: Supportive parenting, stressors outside the family, and deviant peers. Journal of Community Psychology, 30(2), 135-152.
Prelow, H. M., Michaels, M. L., Reyes, L., Knight, G. P., & Barrera, M. (2002). Measuring coping in low-income European American, African American, and Mexican American adolescents: An examination of measurement equivalence. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 15(2), 135-147.
2000
Prelow, H. M., Tein, J., Roosa, M. W., & Woods, J. (2000). Do coping styles differ across sociocultural groups? The role of measurement equivalence in making this judgment. American Journal of Community Psychology, 28(2), 225-244.
1997
Prelow, H. M., & Guarnaccia, C. A. (1997). Ethnic and racial differences in life stress among high school adolescents. Journal of Counseling and Development, 75(6), 442-450.
Book Chapter
2000
Barrera, M., Jr., & Prelow, H. M. (2000). Interventions to promote social support in children and adolescents. In D. Cicchetti, J. Rappaport, I. Sandler, & R. Weissberg (Eds.). The promotion of wellness in children and adolescents. (pp. 309-339) Washington, DC: CWLA Press.
Manuscripts Under Review
Ernestus, S. M. & Prelow, H. M. (under review). Patterns of risk and resilience in African American and Latino Youth. Journal of Community Psychology
Ernestus, S. M., Prelow, H.M., Ramrattan, M. (in preparation). Self-systems processes as
mediators of school connectedness and depressive symptomatology: A preliminary
report. Ernestus, S.M., Prelow, H. M., & Ramrattan, M. E., & Wilson, S. Journal of
Black Psychology
Manuscripts in Preparation
Prelow, H. M. (in preparation). Developmental trajectories of internalizing and externalizing
problems in children in the child protective system: Factors associated with risk and resilience.
Bowman, M. A. & Prelow, H. M. (in preparation). Predictors of reactive aggression among
African American and European American children: The role of perceive discrimination, racial socialization, and negative affect.
PRESENTATIONS
2013
Ernestus, S.M., Prelow H.M., & Wilson, S.A. (2013, April). Patterns of parenting: The
relationship between mother’s parenting behavior and child outcomes. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.
Ernestus, S.M., Olivares, Wilson, S.A., & Prelow, H.M. (2013, April). The effects of parental
drug use on child behavior: The mediating effect of emotional support. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.
2012
Prelow, H. M. & Olivares, I .(2012, March). Developmental trajectories of internalizing
symptoms among African American adolescents on the rolls of Child Protective Services. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Ernestus, S. M., Prelow, H. (2012, March) Profiles of Risk and Protective Factors in Ethnic
Minority Low-Income Adolescents: A Cluster Analysis. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Ernestus, S. M., Glanton, C.F., & Prelow, H. M. (2012, November). A pathway model of
substance use outcomes in minority adolescents. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Baltimore, MD.
2011
Prelow, H. M. (2011, March). Moderating Influences of gender and parent’s mental health on
adolescents’ externalizing problems. Presented at the 2010 Biennial Meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Ernestus, S. M., Prelow, H.M., Ramrattan, M. (2011, March) The Relationship between
School Connectedness in African American Adolescents: Self-Systems as a
Mediator. Presented at the 2010 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Olivares, I., Prelow, H. M., Ramrattan, M. (2011, March). Gender differences and factors
explaining the link between caregiver attachment and delinquency in Black and Latino
adolescents. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
2010
Prelow, H, M. ( 2010, March). Developmental Trajectories of Externalizing Problems in
Adolescents in the Child Protective Service System. Presented at the 2010 Biennial
Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Olivares, I., Prelow, H.M., & Ramrattan, M.E. (2010, March). Mechanisms Linking Perceived
Discrimination to Psychological Distress in African Americans: A Moderated Mediation
Study. Presented at the 2010 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on
Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.
Ramrattan, M.E., Prelow, H.M., & Olivares, I. (2010, March). The Impact of Ecological Risk on
Drug Use among African American Adolescents: Association with Deviant Peers as a
Mediator. Poster presented at the 2010 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
2009
Maruyama, S., Israel, A. C., Prelow, H. M., Nakazawa, J. (April, 2009). An investigation of the
Stability of Activities in the Family Environment Measure for Japanese Elementary Children. Presented at the 2009 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Denver, CO.
2008
Bowman M.A., Hamlett, N.M., Ramrattan, M.E., & Prelow, H.M. (Nov., 2008). Predictors of
psychological adjustment among low-income African American adolescents. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
Hamlett, N.M., Ramrattan, M.E., Bowman, M.A., & Prelow, H.M. (2008). Adverse
contexts and psychosocial adjustment in urban African American adolescents. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
Hamlett, N.M., Prelow, H.M., Bowman, M.A., & Ramrattan, M.E. (Nov., 2008). The
development of socioemotional competence in economically disadvantaged African American preschoolers. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
Ramrattan, M.E., Hamlett, N.M., Bowman, M.A., & Prelow, H.M. (Nov., 2008). Gender,
family influences, peer relations, and neighborhood context as predictors of risky sexual behaviors among urban Latino and African American youth. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
Ramrattan, M., Bowman, M. A., Hamlett, N. M. & Prelow, H. M. (March, 2008). Gender, family influences, and peer relations as predictors of risky sexual behavior among urban Latino and African American youth. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society on Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
Swenson, R. R., & Prelow, H. M. (2008, March). Integrated theoretical model of condom use
intentions among emerging adult female college students. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society on Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
2007
Bowman, M. A., Hamlett, N. M., Ramrattan, M. E., & Prelow, H. M. (2007, March). The Role of mothers and fathers in the development of adolescent delinquency. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Pre-conference Meeting of the Black Caucus at the Society for Research in Child Development.
Bowman, M. A. & Prelow, H.M. (2007, March). A preliminary investigation of the validity of The Experiences of Racism Scale in African American college students. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Moses, E. B., Bowman, M.A., Prelow, H.M., & Weaver, S.W. (2007, March). Preliminary examination of the invariance of the Brief Symptom Inventory 18 in African American and Latino Adolescents across time. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Hamlett, N.M., Prelow, H.M., & Bowman, M.A. (2007, March). Permissive and disengaged parenting as risk factors for the persistence of internalizing problems in African-American Adolescents. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Hamlett, N. M., Prelow, H. M., & Bowman, M. A. (2007, March). A mediated moderation model of pre-academic readiness for African American preschoolers. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
2006
Prelow, H. M. Mosher, c. E., & Loukas, A. (March 2006). The role of risk and compensatory factors on the academic achievement-related outcomes of economically disadvantaged Latino youth. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society on Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.
Mosher, C. E., Yackel, M. E., & Chen, W. W. (March 2006). The role of optimism in social support, life satisfaction, and depressive symptoms among African American adolescents. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society on Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.
Loukas, A., Prelow, H. M., & Suizzo, M. (March 2006). Examining protective factors for Latino adolescents: What roles do gender and maternal acculturation play? Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society on Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.
Bowman, M., Prelow, H. M., & Weaver, S. R. (March 2006). Parenting behaviors, association with deviant peers, and delinquency in African American and European American adolescents. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society on Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.
2005
Prelow, H. M. Weaver, S. R., Swenson, R. R., & Bowman, M. A (2005, April). Competence and self-concepts beliefs a mediators of ecological risk and adjustment in African American and European American youth. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Prelow, H. M., Weaver, S. R., & Bowman, M. A.( April, 2005). Ecological risk and protective factors of parenting behavior in urban Latina American mothers: The mediating effect of maternal psychological functioning. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Loukas, A. & Prelow, H. M. (April, 2005). Examining risk, resource, and protective factors in the adjustment of Latino and African American adolescents. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.