Dr. Grych's primary research interests are in the effects of interparental conflict and family violence on children’s development and the causes and consequences of aggression in adolescent romantic relationships. He also is interested in the prevention of physical and sexual victimization in adolescence.
Education
Ph.D., U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
Teaching Interests
At the undergraduate level, Dr. Grych teaches Psychology of Marriage and Family, Introduction to Psychology, and Child Psychopathology. At the graduate level, he teaches courses on child psychopathology, models of psychotherapy, and couples/family therapy, and supervises clinical practica.
Research Interests
Dr. Grych's research focuses on family processes that contribute to the development of child psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on conflict and violence, and on the causes, course, and consequences of aggression in adolescent romantic relationships. He also has published work on links between parent-child and couples’ relationships, children’s perceptions of conflict and violence, and clinical interventions for children from conflictual and violent families.
Selected Publications
DeBoard, R.M., & Grych, J.H. (in press). Children’s Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence: Causes, consequences, and coping. Journal of Family Violence.
DeBoard, R.M. & Grych, J.H. (2011). The effects of intimate partner violence on school-aged children. In S. Graham-Bermann & A. Levandosky (Eds.) A Developmental Approach to Understanding and Treating the Effects of Intimate Partner Violence across Childhood (pp. 155-177). APA: Washington, D.C.
Noll, J.N. & Grych, J.H. (2011). Read-React-Respond: An integrative model for understanding sexual revictimization. Psychology of Violence, 1, 202-215.
Fosco, G.M., & Grych, J.H. (2010). Adolescent Triangulation into Parental Conflicts: Longitudinal Implications for Appraisals and Adolescent-Parent Relations. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 72, 254-266 .
Grych, J.H., & *Kinsfogel, K.M. (2010). Exploring the role of attachment style in the relation between family aggression and abuse in adolescent dating relationships. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 19, 624-640
DeBoard, R.L.; Fosco, G.M., Raynor,S.R., & Grych, J.H. (2010). The role of parenting in understanding the association between children’s appraisals of interparental conflict and adjustment problems. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 163-175.
Fosco , G.M., & Grych, J.H. (2008). Integrating emotional, cognitive, and family systems mediators of children’s adjustment to interparental conflict. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 843-854
Fosco, G.M. & Grych, J.H. (2007). Emotional expression in the family as a context for children’s appraisals of interparental conflict. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 248-258.
Fosco, G.M., DeBoard, R.L. & Grych, J.H. (2007). Making sense of family violence: Implications of children’s appraisals of interparental aggression for their short- and long-term functioning. European Psychologist, 12, 6-16.
McDonald, R., & Grych, J.H. (2006). Young Children’s Appraisals of Interparental Conflict: Measurement and Links with Adjustment Problems. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 88-99.
Grych, J.H. (2005). Interparental conflict as a risk factor for child maladjustment: Implications for the development of prevention programs. Family Court Review, 43, 97-108.
Grych, J.H., Raynor, S.R., & Fosco, G.M. (2004). Family processes that shape the impact of conflict on adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 649-665.
Kinsfogel, K., & Grych, J.H. (2004). Interparental conflict and adolescent dating relationships: Integrating cognitive, emotional, and peer influences. Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 505-515.
