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Michelle L. Kelley

Welcome to my webpage. I am a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. My research is in the area of at-risk families, especially in the areas of the effects of parent alcohol and drug abuse, and related family violence and parenting problems, on short- and long-term child and adolescent outcomes. In addition, I have conducted research on Navy families and the impact of deployment on military personnel and their children with a particular interest in single military parents and women. In addition, I have conducted several studies on fathering, with an emphasis on predictors of paternal involvement.

I received my doctorate from the University of Houston in 1988. My research has been supported by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Department of Defense. I currently serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Family Psychology and Fathering.

My hobbies include road biking, jet-skiing, kick-boxing, and reading.

Please feel free to e-mail, MKelley@odu.edu

Select awards

College of Sciences, Faculty Member of the Year - 2007

Selected grant support

Kelley, M. & Fals-Stewart, W. (Multiple PIs), Lam, K. K., (Co-I), Henson, J. M. (Co-I). Secondary Effects of Parent Treatment for Drug Abuse on Children, National Institute of Drug Abuse (current).
Fals-Stewart, W., Lam, K.K. (multiple PIs), & Kelley, M. L. (Co-I). (2008-2012). Parent Skills Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcohol Abusing Parents, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (current).
Fals-Stewart, W. (PI) & Kelley, M. L. (Co-I). Parent Skills Training for Drug-Using Fathers. National Institute of Drug Abuse (current).
Fals-Stewart, W. (PI). O'Farrell, T. (Co-Invest.), & Kelley, M. L. (Co-Invest). (2001-2006). Brief Couples Therapy in Drug Abuse Research. National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Kelley, M.L. (Principal Investigator) (1996-1999). The Impact of Deployment on Navy Women and their Families. U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.

Select Publications

Kelley, M.L., Smith, T.S., Green, A.P., Berndt, A.E., & Rogers, M.C. (1998). Importance of fathers' parenting to African-American toddlers' social and cognitive development. Infant Behavior and Development, 21, 733-744.
Bonney, J. F., Kelley, M. L., & Levant, R. F. (1999). A model of paternal behavioral involvement in child care. Journal of Family Psychology, 9, 401-415.
Kelley, M. L., Hock, E., Bonney, J. F., Smith, K. A., Jarvis, M., & Gaffney, M. A. (2001). Enlisted Navy mothers experiencing and not experiencing deployment: Reasons for staying or leaving the military. Military Psychology, 13, 17-20
Kelley, M. L., Hock, E. Smith, K. M., Jarvis, M. S. M.S.; Bonney, J. F., Gaffney, M. A. (2001). Internalizing and externalizing behavior of children with enlisted Navy mothers experiencing military-induced separation. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 464-471.
Kelley, M. L. (2002). The effects of deployment on traditional and non-traditional military families: Navy mothers and their children. In M. G. Ender (Ed.). Military brats and other global nomads: Growing-up in organization families. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Winters, J., Fals-Stewart, W., O'Farrell, T. J., Birchler, G. R., & Kelley, M. L. (2002). Behavioral couples therapy for female substance-abusing patients: Effects on substance use and relationship adjustment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 345-355.
Kelley, M. L., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2002). Couples versus individual-based therapy for alcoholism and drug abuse: Effects on children's psychosocial functioning. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 417-427.
Kelley, M. L., Hock, E., Jarvis, M. S., Smith, K. M., Gaffney, M. A., & Bonney, J. F. (2002). Psychological Adjustment of Navy Mothers Experiencing Deployment. Military Psychology, 14, 199-216.
Nangle, S. M., Kelley, M. L., Fals-Stewart, W., & Levant, R. L. (2003). Work and family variables as related to paternal engagement, responsibility, and accessibility in dual-earner couples with young children. Fathering, 1, 71-90.
Fals-Stewart, W., Birchler, G. R., & Kelley, M. L. (2003). The timeline followback interview to assess physical aggression between intimate partners: Reliability and validity. Journal of Family Violence, 18, 131-142.
Fals-Stewart, W., Kelley, M. L., Cooke, C. G., & Golden, J. (2003). Predictors of the psychosocial adjustment of children living in households in which fathers abuse drugs: The effects of postnatal social exposure. Addictive Behaviors, 28, 1013-1031.
Finkel, L. B., Kelley, M. L., & Ashby, J. (2003). Geographic mobility, family, and maternal variables as related to the psychosocial adjustment of military children. Military Medicine, 168, 1-6.
Kelley, M. L., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2004). Psychiatric disorders of children living with drug-abusing, alcohol-abusing, and non-substance-abusing fathers. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 621-628.
Kelley, M. L., Cash, T. F., Grant, A. R., Miles, D. L., & Santos, M. T. (2004). Parental alcoholism: Relationships to adult attachment in college women and men. Addictive Behaviors, 18, 1-6.
Fals-Stewart, W., Kelley, M. L., Fincham, F. D., Golden, J., & Logsdon, T. (2004). Emotional and behavioral problems of children living with drug-abusing fathers: Comparison with children living with alcoholic fathers and nonsubstance-abusing fathers. Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 319-330.
Cooke, C. G., Kelley, M. L., & Fals-Stewart, W., & Golden, J. (2004). A comparison of the psychosocial functioning of children with drug- versus alcohol-dependent fathers. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 30, 695-710.
Fals-Stewart, W., Fincham, F., & Kelley, M. L (2004). Substance-abusing parents' attitudes toward allowing their custodial children to participate in treatment: A comparison of mothers versus fathers. Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 666-671.
Kelley, M. L., Schwerin, M. J., & Farrar, K. A. (2005). A evaluation of the Navy Sexual Assault Prevention and Advocacy Program for U.S. Navy Personnel, Military Medicine, 170, 320-326.
Fals-Stewart, W. & Kelley, M. L. (2005). When family members go to war--a systemic perspective on harm and healing: Comment on Dirkzwager, Bramsen, Ad�r, and van der Ploeg (2005). Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 233-236.
Fals-Stewart, W., O'Farrell, T. J., Birchler, G. R., Cordova, J., & Kelley, M. L. (2005). Behavioral couples therapy for alcoholism and drug abuse: Where we've been, where we are, and we're we going. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 19, 229-246.
Kelley, M. L., Nair, V., Rawlings, T. Cash, T. F., Steer, K., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2005). Retrospective reports of parenting received in their families of origin: Relationships to adult attachment in adult children of alcoholics. Addictive Behaviors, 30, 1479-1495.
Hart, M. S., & Kelley, M. L. (2006). Work and family issues in parents of children in daycare: A model of influences on children's behavior. Journal of Family Issues, 27, 1-19.
Kelley, M. L. (2006). Single military parents in the new millennium. In T. B. Britt, C. A. Castro, & A. B. Adler (Eds.). Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat. Volume 3: The Military Family. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Press.
Jacobs, J. N., & Kelley, M. L. (2006). Predictors of paternal involvement in childcare in dual-earner families with young children. Fathering, 4, 23-47.
Fals-Stewart, W. Birchler, G. R., & Kelley, M. L. (2006). Learning Sobriety Together: A Randomized clinical trial examining Behavioral Couples Therapy with alcoholic female patients. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 579-591.
Kelley, M. L., Schwerin, M. J., Farrar, K., & Lane, M.E. (2006). A participant evaluation of the U.S. Navy Parent Support Program. Journal of Family Violence, 21, 301-310.
Schroeder, V., Kelley, M. L., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2006). Effects of Parental Substance Abuse on Youth in Their Homes The Prevention Researcher, 13, 10-13.
Kelley, M. L., French, A., Bountress, K., et al., (2007). Parentification and family responsibility in the family of origin of adult children of alcoholics. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 675-685.
Kelley, M. L., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2007). Treating paternal alcoholism using Learning Sobriety Together: Effects on adolescents versus preadolescents. Journal of Family Psychology. 21, 435-444.
Kelley, M. L., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2007). Treating paternal alcoholism using Learning Sobriety Together: Effects on adolescents versus preadolescents. Journal of Family Psychology. 21, 435-444. Selected for abstract in R. Frances (in press). Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health, Elsevier.
Leary, C. E., Kelley, M. L., Morrow, J., & Mikulka, P. J. (2008). Parental use of physical punishment as related to family environment, psychological well-being, and personality in undergraduates. Journal of Family Violence, 23, 1-7.
Kelley, M. L., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2008). Treating paternal drug abuse using Learning Sobriety Together: Effects on adolescents versus children. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 92, 228-238
Schroeder, V., & Kelley, M. L. (2008). Influence of family factors on the executive functioning of Adult Children of Alcoholics in college. Family Relations, 57, 404-414.
Lam, W. K., Fals-Stewart, W., & Kelley, M. L. (2008). Effects of Parent Skills Training With Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism on Children: A Randomized Clinical Pilot Trial. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 1076-1080.
Kelley, M., French, A., Schroeder, V., Bountress, K., Fals-Stewart, W., Steer, K., & Cooke, C. G. (2008). Mother-Daughter and Father-Daughter Attachment of College Student ACOAs. Substance Use & Misuse.
Schroeder, V., & Kelley, M. L Associations Between Family Environment, Parenting Practices, and Executive Functioning of Children with and Without ADHD (in press). Journal of Child and Family Studies, available on line at: bhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-008-9223-0.
Lam, W., Fals-Stewart, W., & Kelley, M. L. (in press). The Timeline Followback Interview to Assess Children's Exposure Partner Violence: Reliability and Validity. Journal of Family Violence.
Kelley, M. L., Platter, A. J., & Fals-Stewart, W. (in press). Behavioral couples therapy for substance abuse: Treatment components, efficacy, and effectiveness. In G. Fisher & N. Roget (Eds.) Encyclopedia Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fals-Stewart, W., Lam, K. K., & Kelley, M. L. (in press). Parent-involved treatment for women substance abusers and their partners. In. S. F. Greenfield, K Brady, & S. Backs (Eds.), Women and Addiction. New York: Guilford Press.
Platter, A. J., & Kelley, M. L. (in press). Enabling behavior in family members of substance abusers. In G. Fisher & N. Roget (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fals-Stewart, W. S., Kelley, M. L., & Lam, W. K. (in press). Couple therapy for substance abuse. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Lam, W. K., Fals-Stewart, W., & Kelley, M. L. (in press). The Timeline Followback-Children's Exposure to Partner Violence (TLFB-CEPV): Reliability and Validity. Journal of Family Violence.
Fals-Stewart, W., Lam, W. K.K., & Kelley, M. L. (in press). Learning Sobriety Together: Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. Journal of Family Therapy.
Braitman, A. L., Kelley, M. L., Ladage, J., Schroeder, V., Gumienny, L. A., Morrow, J. A., & Klostermann, K. (in press). Alcohol and Drug Use among College Student Adult Children of Alcoholics. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education.