Dr. Erin Rodríguez studies family, sociocultural, and contextual influences on children's development and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding and reducing health disparities affecting low-SES Latinx youth. Within this program of work, her current projects include 1) an RCT testing a culturally responsive coping skills and self-management intervention for low-SES Latinx families of children with asthma; 2) a study examining parental and family adjustment to pediatric cancer; 3) a longitudinal investigation of bilingual language development, coping, and mental health outcomes in low-SES Latinx youth; and 4) a mixed-methods, community-based research partnership (CBPR) to examine provider and family experiences of integrated behavioral health in primary care.
Dr. Rodríguez's work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NCI, NICHD, NIMHD) as well as the St. David's Foundation Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research (CHPR) and the Society of Pediatric Psychology.
Dr. Rodríguez will be considering applications for new doctoral students for Fall 2025.
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 2012
M.S. in Clinical Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 2008
B.A. in Psychology, Columbia University, 2005
Dr. Erin Rodríguez studies family, sociocultural, and contextual influences on childrens development and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding and reducing health disparities affecting low-SES Latinx youth.
Rodriguez, E. M.., Kumar, H.., Alba-Suarez, J.. & Sanchez-Johnsen, L.. (2017). Parental coping, depressive symptoms and childrens asthma control and school attendance in low-income, racially and ethnically diverse urban families. Journal of Asthma. doi:10.1080/02770903.2016.1274402.
Rodriguez, E., Murphy, L., Vannatta, K., Gerhardt, C., Young-Saleme, T., Saylor, M., Bemis, H., Desjardins, L., Dunn, M. & Compas, B. (2016). Maternal coping and depressive symptoms as predictors of mother-child communication about a child's cancer. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 41, 329–339. doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsv106.
Rodriguez, E., Kumar, H., Draeger, A. & Sanchez-Johnsen, L. (2016). Coping with asthma in racially and ethnically diverse urban children: The role of emotional problems in disease control. Children's Health Care. doi:10.1080/02739615.2015.1124771.
Murphy, L., Rodriguez, E., Gerhardt, C., Vannatta, K., Schwartz, L., Saylor, M., Bemis, H., Desjardins, L. & Compas, B. (2016). Longitudinal associations among maternal communication and adolescent posttraumatic stress symptoms after cancer diagnosis. Psycho-Oncology, 25(7), 779–786. doi:10.1002/pon.3918.
Rodriguez, E., Donenberg, G., Emerson, E., Wilson, H. & Javdani, S. (2015). Externalizing symptoms moderate associations among interpersonal skills, parenting, and depressive symptoms in adolescents seeking mental health treatment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 952–963. doi:10.1007/s10964-015-0263-7.
Sanchez-Johnsen, L., Escamilla, J., Rodriguez, E., Vega, S. & Bolaños, L. (2015). Latino community-based participatory research studies: A model for conducting bilingual translations. Hispanic Health Care International, 13, 8–18. doi:doi:10.1891/1540-4153.13.1.8.
Faculty Summer Research Assignment Award, University of Texas at Austin (2015)
Ana Sofia Ocegueda (Supervisor)Sofia's research interests are focused on Latinx families, how they cope with stress, and how to better their mental health outcomes. She is passionate about closing gaps in mental health care for marginalized communities and advocating for their rights through psychology. She is also interested in the family-school relationship and how to strengthen this partnership to better outcomes for students, specifically for low-income, marginalized families. Sofia currently works in the Pediatric Coping and Language Lab...
