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Rosalie Corona

Assistant professor

Contact information

Phone: (804) 828-8059
E-mail: racorona@vcu.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1999) University of California, Los Angeles

Program affiliation

Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology (affiliate)

Research interests

Dr. Corona’s general area of research focuses on the emotional and behavioral adjustment of minority adolescents, particularly Latino and African American youth. She is especially interested in examining the relationships between cultural values, parent-child connectedness (i.e., warmth, closeness, communication, monitoring), and adolescent substance use, sexual risk behavior, and depressive symptoms. She has incorporated what she has learned from her research into the design and evaluation of parent and youth prevention programs aimed at promoting adolescent health and resilience and improving parent-child connectedness. Her particular interests have been on (1) psychosocial adjustment; (2) adolescent sexual health; and (3) families affected by HIV/AIDS.

Selected publications

Corona , R., Beckett, M. K., Cowgill, B., Eliott, M. N., Murphy, D. A., Zhou, A., & Schuster, M. A. (2006). Do children know their parent’s HIV-status? Parental reports of child knowledge in a nationally representative sample. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 6, 138-144.

Corona , R., Lefkowitz, E. S., Romo, L. F., & Sigman, M. (2005). Latino American adolescents’ adjustment, maternal depressive symptoms, and the mother-adolescent relationship. Family Relations, 54, 386-399.

Nasim, A., Corona, R., Belgrave, F. Z., Utsey, S. O., & Fallah, N. (2007). Cultural orientation as a protective factor against smoking among African American young women. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 4, 503-516.

Eastman, K. L., Corona, R., & Schuster, M. A. (2006). Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: a worksite based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health. Preventing Chronic Disease, 3 (4). Available online.

Martino, S. C., Elliott, M. N., Corona, R. Kanouse, D. E., & Schuster, M. A. (in press). Beyond the "Big Talk": The roles of breadth and repetition in parent-adolescent communication about sexual topics. Pediatrics.

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Recent/current courses taught at VCU

Individual Tests of Intelligence, graduate level
Minority Issues in Mental Health, graduate level
Clinical Practicum, graduate level
Child Psychopathology, undergraduate level

Recent grants or awards

Corona , R. (Principal Investigator). Barriers and supports to teen pregnancy prevention among Latina adolescents. VCU Institute of Women’s Health, $9732 total costs.

Corona , R. (Principal Investigator). Understanding the context and nature of problems faced by Latino youth. Community Engagement Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, 05/2006 –08/2006, $4,132 total costs.

Corona, R. (Principal Investigator). Keeping Latino youth and families safe: Identifying substance use, safety, and other health needs in Richmond. Virginia Governor’s Office for Substance Abuse and Prevention, 03/2005 – 02/2006, $15,000 total costs.

Schuster, M. A. (Principal Investigator), Corona, R. (Co-Investigator), Eastman, K. L., Elliott, M. N., & Kanouse, D. E. Long-term Effects of a Worksite Parenting Program. National Institute of Mental Health, 9/30/04-6/30/08, ~$2,733,000 total costs.

Principal Investigator, 2005 – 2006: Governor’s Office of Substance Abuse and Prevention “Keeping Latino Youth and Families Safe: Identifying Substance Use, Safety, and Other Health Needs in Richmond” $15,000.

Co-Principal Investigator, 2004 – 2005 (Principal Investigator: T.N. Sullivan, Ph.D.) Virginia Commonwealth University Faculty Teaching Grant “Modification of the Assessment Series in Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology.”