Family Adversity and Resilience Research Program

The UConn Health Family Adversity and Resilience Research (FARR) program is led by child psychologists, Margaret Briggs-Gowan, Damion Grasso, and Carolyn Greene. At FARR, we conduct studies to help us discover ways to promote healthy development in children who have been through stressful events and other types of adversity.

Many children have stressful or difficult experiences growing up, such as family conflict or violence, community violence, or other stressful experiences like car accidents or medical emergencies. These experiences can have a negative impact on children’s development. Some children have problems with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress or behavioral problems. Other children are successful even after these kinds of experiences. The FARR program strives to identify social and biological factors that influence children’s development and behavior. We hope that what we learn will be used to develop better interventions to reduce risk and build resilience.

The FARR program is designed to be comfortable for families with young children as well as for older children. We use child-friendly activities that are appropriate for each child’s age to learn more about their development and behavior.

We enroll in several paid studies:

In addition, mothers who participated in the 2020 Baby Study are now invited to register for PIPS!

Visit our study pages to learn more about eligibility.

To learn more about training and volunteer opportunities in our lab, visit Training opportunities.