![]() ![]() Familial and contextual influences on child pro-social behavior: South African caregivers as adult protective shields in increasing child mental health. M., Small, L, Osuji, H., Bhana, A., & McKay, M. He is a licensed clinical social worker in New York and plans to continue collaborating with Boston’s community-based organizations. Parchment has extensive experience working on family-based research projects in the United States and South Africa including a youth development and mental health support program for high school students. His scholarly interests lie in four areas: (1) investigating the ways in which gender, familial, cultural and other psychosocial, contextual factors influence male caregiving in families (2) exploring of the unique indirect and direct contributions that paternal male involvement has on child behavioral and mental health (3) documenting the various roles male caregivers/fathers play in the lives of children and families and (4) developing applied theoretically grounded paternal/male interventions for improving children’s behavioral and mental health outcomes. ![]() ![]() Parchment’s research program is informed by almost a decade of direct practice and research experience that focuses on family behavioral health with an emphasis on male caregiving/fathers among racially and ethnically marginalized communities both in the United States and internationally. His academic training and research experience provided him with an excellent background in rigorous methodological, conceptual, and statistical research training in social science and social work practice that can be applied at the domestic and international levels. Parchment, PhD, LCSW, joined Boston College School of Social Work faculty in 2018. ![]()
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