Patrick Davies

Dr. Patrick Davies is co-director of the Rochester Center for Research on Children and Families (RCRCF), affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the University of Rochester and based at the Mount Hope Family Center. His work focuses on understanding children’s adaptation and maladaptation within family contexts through a developmental psychopathology lens.

• Research Themes: Risk and resilience in children’s responses to family processes
• Integration of ethological and evolutionary frameworks
• Longitudinal studies on family conflict (interparental, sibling, parent-child) and peer relationships

• Methodology: Multi-method, multi-level approaches
• Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)