Career
She is the Director of the Center for Youth Relationship and Development. Her research focuses on processes (such as shame, attribution and social support) related to adjustment in sexually abused youth and adolescent romantic relationships. Doctor Feiring has been honored with a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars award and has been the recipient of federally funded grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Justice, and Department of Education.
She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research on Adolescence and is the Editor of Child Maltreatment.
Doctor Feiring is the principal investigator on an National Institute of Mental Health supported longitudinal study of processes related to adjustment following the discovery of sexual abuse. This project spans development from childhood into young adulthood and has been instrumental in guiding theory and intervention for youth with a history of sexual abuse.
She has been selected as the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Child Maltreatment.
