Ryan Chesnut

Ryan Chesnut is an Assistant Research Professor at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, Pennsylvania State University. His work focuses on parent-child interactions, prevention programs for military families, and moral injury impacts on service members. He holds a B.S. (2008), M.A. (2010) from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and a Ph.D. (2014) from Penn State.

Research Interests:

• Evaluating parenting prevention programs for military families
• Mechanisms linking parenting to child outcomes
• Moral injury's effects on relational functioning among military personnel

Current Projects:

• Dissemination and implementation of DoD-adopted parenting programs
• Exploring resilience pathways for service member reintegration

Awards: None explicitly listed in provided materials.

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, part of Penn State's interdisciplinary prevention research network.