UNC School of Education

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor

Coordinator of School Psychology Program

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A school/clinical psychologist, Barbara Hanna Wasik holds a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professorship in the School of Education and is a fellow of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. She is also director of the UNC Center for Home Visiting.

Wasik teaches in the School Psychology Program and has held numerous administrative positions at UNC-Chapel Hill. She serves as a consultant to national organizations, is a member of several national boards and has held office in state and national organizations. For the American Psychological Association, she has served as chair of the Board of Educational Affairs, a member of the Council of Representatives and chair of the Task Force on Early Childhood Education. She is a former president of the North Carolina Psychology Association. In addition, Wasik was an invited participant to the White House Conference on Child Care and served as a member of the Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy of the National Academy of Sciences. Since 1999, she has served as a co-director for the National Forum on Home Visiting.

• Ph.D. 1967 - Florida State University, Clinical Psychology
• M.S. 1965 - Florida State University, Psychology
• B.A. 1963 - University of Georgia, Psychology, Mathematics

• Early Childhood Interventions
• Early Literacy and Language
• Social and Emotional Development
• Observational Studies of Children
• Home Visiting
• Research Overview

• Prevention and Interventions for Preschool and School Aged Children
• Applied Research Investigations

• APA Council of Representatives
  
• Fellow, American Psychological Association
  
• Division 7, Developmental Psychology
  
• Division 12, Clinical Psychology
  
• Division 16, School Psychology
  
• Division 25, Analysis of Behavior
  
• Charter Fellow, American Association of
• Applied and Preventive Psychology
  
• Who's Who in America
  
• Who's Who in American Women

• U.S. Department of Maternal and Child Health. Intergenerational pathways to competence in minority families. (Principal Investigator, Frances Campbell) Investigator ($1,523,028) September 2001-July 2005
• Westat Research Cooperation (U.S. Department of Education Contract). Partners for Literacy Principal Investigator ($3,509,900) May 2003-September 2006 (extended to February 2007)

• Chair, Board of Educational Affairs, American Psychological Association
• Invited Participant, White House Conference on Child Care, Washington, DC., 1997
• Invited Participant, Violence and Trauma in Childhood: A Family and Community Perspective, Jerusalem, Israel, 1998
• Member, National Academy of Science Committee on early Childhood Pedagogy
• Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 1990, 2001
• Co-Developer and co-facilitator, National Forum on Home Visiting, 1999-2007
• Member, North Carolina Family Literacy Consortium, 2001-present
• Delegate, Trilateral Forum on Psychology: Canada, United States, and Mexico 2001, 2002
• Member, Post-tenure Review Committee, School of Education, 1998-2000, 2007-present
• Chair, William C. Friday Distinguished Professorship Search Committee, School of Education,1999-2000
• Chair, UNC Distinguished Professors Selection Committee, 2008

Wasik, B. H. (1989). The systematic observation of children: Rediscovery and advances. Behavioral Assessment, 11, 201-217.

Wasik, B.H., Ramey, C.T., Bryant, D.M., & Sparling, J.J. (1990) A longitudinal study of two early intervention strategies: Project CARE. Child Development, 61(6), 1682-1696.

Wasik, B.H. (1997). Implications for child abuse and neglect interventions from early educational interventions. In J. Lutzker (ed.), Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment (pp. 519-541). New York: Plenum.

Wasik, B. H. & Bryant, D. (2001) Home visiting: Procedures for helping families (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks: CA. Sage.

Wasik, B. H., Dobbins, D. R., & Herrmann, S. (2001). Intergenerational Family Literacy: Concepts, Research, and Practice In S. Neuman & D. Dickerson. Handbook of early literacy development (pp. 444-458). New York: Guilford.

Wasik, B. H. (2004). Handbook on Family Literacy. (Ed.) Mahmah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Barbarin, O., & Wasik, B. H. (in progress) (Eds). Developmental science and early childhood education. New York: Guilford Press.

Campbell, F., Wasik, B. H., Pungello, E., Burchinal, M., Barbarin, O., Kaniz, K., Sparling, J.J., & Ramey, C. T. (2008, in press). Young adult outcomes of the Abecedarian and CARE early childhood educational interventions. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.