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

• NC Department of Public Instruction. North Carolina Even Start Evaluation. Principal Investigator ($21,000) December 1999 - 2000 ($21,000) July 2000-December 2001
• 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

• 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-present
• Member, North Carolina Family Literacy Consortium, 2001-present
• Delegate, Trilateral Forum on Psychology: Canada, United States, and Mexico 2001, 2002
• Mentor for Postdoctoral Fellows, National Center for Early Development and Learning, 1997-1999
• Supervisor for Clinical Assistant Professorship for licensure, 1997-1998
• Member, Post-tenure Review Committee, School of Education, 1998-2000
• Chair, William C. Friday Distinguished Professorship Search Committee, School of Education,1999-2000
• Member, Steering Committee, Head Start Quality Research Center on Socio-emotional Interventions to Enhance School Readiness, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, 2001-2005

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., 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. & Bryant, D. (in progress). The role of home visiting within family literacy programs. In B. H. Wasik (Ed.) Handbook of Family Literacy Programs. New Jersey: Erlbaum.

Wasik, B. H. & Hendrickson, J. S. (in progress). Family literacy practices. In Handbook of Language and Literacy Development and Disorder. In Stone, A. (Eds.) New York: Guilford

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.