福特汉姆（Fordham）博士因其卓越的研究成果和对该领域的开拓性贡献而享誉全国。应用发展心理学课程侧重于整个生命中的人类发展，并致力于社会正义。福特汉姆（Fordham）的心理学教授西莉亚·费舍尔（Celia Fisher）帮助建立了应用发展心理学作为研究领域，该领域进行了严格的研究并提出了改善生活的政策和计划。在我们的博士课程中，您将获得亲身实践的经验并与我们享有声望的奖项并获得数百万美元的拨款的著名教授紧密合作。<br> <br>寿命的发展受-和影响-健康，疾病和心理健康。我们的教职员工致力于研究生
Life-span development is influenced by-- and influences-- health, illness and psychological well-being. Our faculty's research addresses the dynamic interplay between biology, behavior, and context as it relates to health- and risk-compromising behaviors and relationships between caregivers and care recipients.Celia Fisher's federally-funded research includes prevention programs to reduce college drinking, and on understanding and enhancing the treatment- and research-consent capacities of pediatric cancer patients and their parents, and of adults with developmental disabilities. She is also involved in standards for research on children's environmental health, and interdisciplinary research on factors influencing the nutritional health and food choices of African-American, HIV-positive, marginally-housed and homeless female substance abusers. (Her research on race, ethnicity, and culture is described below).