Clarissa S. Holmes

Professor

Contact information

Phone: (804) 828-7486
E-mail: cholmes@richmond.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1979), University of Arkansas

Program affiliation

Clinical Psychology

Research and clinical interests

My clinical focus on the adaptation of children to abnormal conditions, particularly medical disorders, relates to my teaching and research interests in pediatric psychology.  Throughout my career I have specialized in study of endocrinology disorders, particularly insulin-dependent, type 1 diabetes.  My recent research studies involve evaluation of neuropsychological, biopsychosocial and social class influences on health status, family interactions/environment and behavioral outcomes. Memory and learning status associated with diabetes and its novel use as a predictor of daily self-care behaviors were the focus of my last grant. Currently, my Diabetes Adolescent/Child Research Team (DART) Lab has two ongoing 5-year NIH grants.  These grants represent a new direction for the lab into the area of prevention studies and intervention programs to help parents and their youth with type 1 diabetes avoid problems with daily disease care.  The TeamWork Coping Skills project seeks to assist parents and their young teens in the development of an adaptive, cooperative approach to disease management issues.  The Young Child project provides supportive services to parents with preschool children who have diabetes.  These multi-site studies are funded by the National Institutes of Health and have sites at Georgetown University for statistical consultation with data collection at VCU and the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.  Presently, we are initiating pilot data collection for a neurocognitive study of youth with early disease onset for our next grant submission. 

Selected publications

Kent, S. J., Chen, R. S., & Holmes, C. S. (in press). Individual growth curve modeling of specific risk factors and memory in youth with type 1 diabetes: An accelerated longitudinal design. Child Neuropsychology.

Greene, M. M., Maher, K, & Holmes, C. S. (in press). Cognitive aspects of endocrinology disorders. In C. Armstrong &  L. Morrow (Eds.),  Handbook of medical neuropsychology. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.

Holmes, C. S., Morgan, K., & Powell, P. W. (in press). Neuropsychological sequelae of diabetes.  In C. Armstrong &  L. Morrow (Eds.), Handbook of medical neuropsychology. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.

Gaudieri, P., Chen, R., & Holmes, C. S. (2008). Cognitive function in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D): A meta-analysis. Diabetes Care, 31, 1892-1897.

Swift, E., Chen, R. S., Hershberger, A., & Holmes, C. S. (2006). Demographic risk factors, mediators and moderators in youths’ diabetes metabolic control. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 32, 355-365.

Recent/current courses taught at VCU

• Developmental Psychopathology, graduate level
• Practicum Supervision, graduate level