Kimberly Kopko
Extension Associate
2009
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Current Activities
Current Professional Activities
Current activities include
advancing the goals of the Parenting in Context Initiative, conducting original
research, writing research briefs, organizing in-service trainings, and
developing and evaluating parenting curricula.
Other activities include participation in several College-wide Extension Projects in the College of Human Ecology.
Current Research Activities
Current research activities include examining the well-being of youth (aged 12-18) being raised by a grandparent. Specific interests include the nature and quality of the relationship between youth and their custodial grandparents, with a focus on aspects such as warmth, monitoring, closeness and support; identifying factors that are sources of resilience as youth being raised by grandparents traverse through adolescence; and identifying sources of adolescent risk.
Current Extension Activities
Most recent activities include involvement in several College-wide Extension Projects including designing a questionnaire for distribution to Extension professionals across New York State, development of a training program for Extension professionals, heading a subcommittee on Adolescent Development for the Parenting Education Program Work
Team, and writing Research Briefs and Parenting Pages for
distribution to Cornell Cooperative Extension parent educators statewide.
Biography
Biographical Statement
Kimberly Kopko received her Ph.D. in Child Development from the Department of Human Development at Cornell University in May 2005 and joined the Department of Policy Analysis & Management in 2007 after spending a year as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ithaca College. Her research and extension interests examine parenting and child development outcomes. Specific research and extension interests include: teens being raised by custodial grandparents, developmental outcomes of affluent youth; socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development; the impact of children's extracurricular activity involvement on families; and parenting and adolescent development.
Education
Ph.D., Child Development 2005-Cornell University Department
of Human Development
M.Ed., Human Development and Psychology 2000-Harvard University Graduate
School of Education
B.A., Psychology 1998-Brown University,
Magna Cum Laude, With Honors
Administrative Responsibilities
Administrative responsibilities include management of student research assistants, students serving summer internship roles and overall administrative responsibilities related to management of the Parenting In Context Project.
Keywords
Adolescents
Family
Developmental Psychology
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Related Websites
Parenting in Context Project: www.parenting.cit.cornell.edu
Selected Publications
Kopko, Kimberly (2009) Teens & Technology. [paper]
Kopko, Kimberly (2007). Parenting styles and adolescents. [paper]
Kopko, Kimberly (2007). Characteristics of positive parent-child interactions: Autonomy. [paper]
Kopko, Kimberly (2007). Characteristics of positive parent-child interactions: Connections. [paper]
Kopko, Kimberly (2007). Characteristics of positive parent-child interactions: Monitor. [paper]