UW Psych Professor Dr. Dillon Browne and researchers from U of T and York University, collected and analyzed data from more than 500 caregivers and 1,000 siblings. Caregivers with two children between five and 18 years old completed questionnaires on COVID stress, family functioning and mental health at repeated times throughout a two-month period during the COVID-19 pandemic.Researchers found that one sibling tends to present greater mental-health problems. That, in turn, elicits more negative parenting.
The article details the many accomplishments and accolades of Dr. Geoffrey Fong, not the least of which, was his recent appointment to the Order of Canada.
Dr. Dillon Browne joined CBC Kitchener-Waterloo's The Morning Edition to talk about what parents should and should not say to their teens who may be feeling angry as a result of the pandemic.
Geoffrey Fong, a professor in the Department of Psychology cross-appointed to the School of Public Health Sciences at Waterloo, was appointed to be an officer of the Order of Canada. Fong is the founder and chief principal investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC project), leading a team of more than 150 researchers across 31 countries covering more than half of the world’s population.
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