• PhD, Stony Brook University

I regularly teach undergraduate courses in Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Learning, and Clinical Psychology. I have also taught a variety of other courses including Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Parenting, Psychopathology: Integrative Approaches, and a graduate course: Seminar on College Teaching.

My research interests stem from my broad interest in promoting optimal development and functioning through the application of psychological knowledge. This broad interest led to my research interests in promoting undergraduate student success; the prevention of externalizing behavior problems through parenting interventions; and the promotion of optimal development in children, adolescents, and their families.

• Dowling, C. B. (2020). Changes in college students’ opinions on parenting: Undergraduate education as primary prevention. The Behavior Therapist, 43(5), 176 – 182.
• Smith, C. V., Dowling, C. B., Swope, J. M., & Hadden, B. W. (2017). Testing a brief interactive teaching demonstration to explain experimentation in psychology. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 3, 208 – 219. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000091
• Dowling, C. B. (2017). Effects of quizzing methodology on student outcomes: Reading compliance, retention, behaviors, and perceptions. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 11(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2017.110203
• Dowling, C. B., Smith Slep, A. M., & O’Leary, S. G. (2009). Understanding preemptive parenting: Relations with toddler’s misbehavior, overreactive and lax discipline, and praise. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 850-857. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374410903258983
• Evans, S. W., Dowling, C. B., & Brown, R. C. (2008). Psychosocial treatment for adolescents with ADHD. In K. McBurnett & L. Pfiffner (Eds.), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Concepts, controversies, new directions (pp. 243-258). New York: Informa Healthcare, Inc.