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Dr. Bell's CV

Family PSYC Syllabi:
Graduate
Undergraduate

Dr. Bell’s primary research focus is a 30-year longitudinal study of the relationship between the family system and individual development. She collaborates in this work with David Bell. In the mid-1970s, she interviewed 100 families of adolescents; this was a structured home interview including self report and projective measures, along with the recording and coding of marital and family interaction process. In the last 1990s, follow-up telephone interviews were completed with the former adolescents and with their elder parents looking at psychological well-being and the adult child - elder parent relationship, also home interviews with the elder parents (looking at marriage from mid-life through later life) and home interviews with former adolescents who then had adolescents of their own (same interview as in the 1970, looking for intergenerational family patterns). This work can be reviewed at www.familylegacies.net.

Dr. Bell has also spent several years training and doing research in Japan. Her research includes cross-cultural study of family system processes and adolescent development, based on a comparative sample of Japanese families who completed the same structured home interview as for the U.S. sample described above.

Dr. Bell is a Fellow and Approved Supervisor of the American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT), and a charter member of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA). She is also a member of the American Psychological Association and the National Council on Family Relations, a licensed psychologist and a licensed marriage and family therapist and supervisor.