J. Mark Eddy is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education within the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. As a prevention scientist, he develops and rigorously tests prevention and intervention programs intended to benefit children and families, and particularly those who are living in stressful circumstances. His recent work centers on the conduct of randomized controlled trials of multimodal interventions in partnership with school systems, the juvenile justice system, the adult corrections system, the child welfare system, and the military, as well as with nonprofits that work with these and related systems. His research has focused on communities in the U.S. and in Central America. Eddy is a licensed psychologist.
Dr. Eddy will be considering applications for new doctoral students for Fall 2025.
Ph.D. in Clinical and Community Psychology, University of Oregon, 1992
M.S. in Clinical Psychology, University of Oregon, 1988
B.S. in Psychology, University of Oregon, 1985
J. Mark Eddy's primary area of expertise is the development, refinement and rigorous testing of culturally informed multimodal preventive and clinical psychosocial interventions to improve physical and mental health outcomes for children and families. This work is done in collaboration with families and professionals from schools and other community-based service systems. Areas of interest include parent-child relationships; intimate partner relationships; family violence; parent management training; couples intervention; youth mentoring; early childhood education and family-based intervention; mothers and fathers involved with the juvenile justice or criminal justice systems and their families; children and families involved with the child welfare system; immigrant families; observational research; social interactional theory; coercion theory; cognitive behavioral therapy; longitudinal growth modeling; survival analysis; the development and refinement of effective communication processes between and among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in order to provide children and families with the most effective preventive and clinical interventions; training and mentoring the next generation of implementation and prevention scientists.
Dr. Eddy will be reviewing applications in anticipation of taking a student for Fall 2024.
Eddy, J. M., Shortt, J. W., Martinez, C. R., Holmes, A., Wheeler, A., Gau, J., Seeley, J. & Grossman, J. (2020). Outcomes from a randomized controlled trial of the Relief Nursery program. Prevention Science, 21(1), 36–45.
Low, S., Tiberio, S. S., Shortt, J. W., Mulford, C., Eddy, J. M. & Capaldi, D. M. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of violence: The mediating role of adolescent psychopathology symptoms. Development & Psychopathology, 31, 233–245.
Kjellstrand, J. M., Yu, G., Eddy, J. M. & Martinez, C. R., Jr. (2018). Children of incarcerated parents: Developmental trajectories of externalizing behavior across adolescence. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 45(11), 1742–1761.
Eddy, J. M., Martinez, C. R., Jr., Grossman, J. B., Cearley, J. J., Herrera, D., Wheeler, A. C., Rempel, J. S., Foney, D. M., Gau, D. M., Burraston, J. M., Harachi, B. O., Harachi, T. W., Haggerty, K. P. & Seeley, J. R. (2017). A randomized controlled trial of a long-term professional mentoring program for children at risk: Outcomes across the first 5 years. Prevention Science, 18(8), 899–910.
National Institutes of Health (2020-2025)
Miles de Manos: Testing the Efficacy of a School- Based Youth Violence Preventive Intervention in a High Risk International Context
National Institutes of Health (2020-2025)
A Randomized-Controlled Trial of Friends of the Children, a Long-Term Professional Mentoring Program for Adolescents at Risk: Impacts of Post-Test and 2-Year Follow-Up
National Institutes of Health (2019-2022)
Netting Prevention Intervention Butterfly Effects: An integrative Data Analysis Investigating the Long-Term and Cross-Over Effects of Randomized, School- Based Prevention Programs on Adult Mental Health
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Justice (2018-2023)
Permanent Supportive Housing: A Natural Experiment
Service to SPR Award, Society for Prevention Research (2016)
International Collaborative Research Award, Society for Prevention Research (2015)
Friend of ECPN (Mentoring) Award, Society for Prevention Research (2009)
Early Career Scientist Award, Society for Prevention Research (1998)
