Office: Carney 257
Phone: 617-552-0910
Email: jennifer.drake.2@bc.edu
Primary Advisor: Karen Rosen
Academic Interests: Jennifer's research interests focus on the socialization of children's emotions. With Dr. Karen Rosen, she is examining the role that parents and siblings play in a young child's capacity to regulate their emotions. In a separate line of research with Professor Ellen Winner, she is exploring visual and spatial abilities in children gifted in drawing realism.
Undergraduate Institution/Degree: B.A. in Psychology and B.F.A. in Dance, University at Buffalo, 2003.
Graduate Institution/Degree: M.A. in Psychology, Boston University, 2004.
Presentations
Drake, J.E., (2006). The Psychology and Physiology of Burn Stress in Very Early Childhood. In F. Stoddard (Chair). Neuropsychiatric Responses to Burns: Modeling the Developmental Neurobiology of Trauma. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Stoddard, F.J., Drake, J.E., Murphy, J.M., Saxe, G., Levine, J., & Sheridan, R. (2006). The Prevalence of PTSD Diagnoses and Symptomatology in Young Burned Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Burn Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Stoddard, F.J., Drake, J.E., Murphy, J.M., Kagan, J., Saxe, G., Ronfeldt, R., Snidman, N., Levine, J., Brown, L., & Sheridan, R. (2005). Dimensions of Psychological Care of Young Burned Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Burn Congress, Shanghai, China.
Stoddard, F.J., Drake, J.E., Murphy, J.M., Snidman N, Kagan, J., Saxe, G., & Sheridan, R. (2005). Trauma Severity Influences Acute Stress Symptoms in Young Burned Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Burn Association, Chicago, IL and the 2005 Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Research Day, Boston, MA.
Meuret, A.E., Drake, J.E., Pincus, D.B. In-Albon, T., & Ehrenreich, J.T. (2004). Prevalence and Correlates of Asthma in Clinically Anxious Children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA & the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology, Princeton, NJ.
Rapoza, K., Drake, J.E., & Vargas, R. (2004). Alcohol consumption, expectancies and emotional commitment’s relationship to sexual aggression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.
Drake, J.E., Williams, A., Schlegel, A., & Levine, M. (2003). Mental health assessment of youth in the juvenile justice system. Accepted to the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Publications
Cohen, A.B., Restuccia, J.R., Shwartz, M., Drake, J.E., Kang, R., Kralovec, P., Holmes, S.K., Margolin, F., & Bohr, D. (2008). Quality Improvement Activities in a Large Sample of U.S. Hospitals. Medical Care Research and Review, 65(5): 571-595.
Drake, J.E., & Winner, E. (in press). Precocious realists: Perceptual and cognitive characteristics. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions Series B.
Rapoza, K.A., & Drake, J.E. (in press). Alcohol Consumption, Expectancies and Emotional Commitment’s Relationship to Male Sexual Coercion and Aggression in Dating Couples. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Drake, J.E., Stoddard, F.J., Murphy, J.M., Ronfeldt, H., Snidman, N., Kagan, J., Saxe, G., & Sheridan, R. (2006). Trauma Severity Influences Acute Stress Symptoms in Young Burned Children. Journal of Burn Care and Research, 27(2), 174-82.
Stoddard, F.J., Ronfeldt, H., Kagan, J., Drake, J.E., Snidman, N., Murphy, J.M., Saxe, G., Burns, J., & Sheridan, R. (2006). Young Burned Children: The Course of Acute Stress, Physiological Responses and Behavioral Symptoms. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(6), 1084-90.
Stoddard, F.J., Saxe, G., Ronfeldt, H., Drake, J.E., Burns, J., Edgren, C., & Sheridan, R. (2006). Acute Stress Symptoms in Young Children with Burns. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45(1), 87-93.