Faculty / Staff
Barbara Fiese
Professor, Human Development and Family StudiesPampered Chef, Ltd. Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency
Director, Family Resiliency Center
1016B Doris Christopher Hall, M/C 180
904 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-9077
Fax: (217) 333-9061
Email: bhfiese@illinois.edu
Education
1974 B.S. Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
1981 M.S. General Experimental Psychology, Villanova University
1987 Ph.D. Clinical and Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago
Research Interests
Dr. Fiese's research focuses on family level factors that promote health and well-being in children at risk due to physical illness and/or poor child-raising conditions. She also examines how family rituals may promote medical adherence and reduce anxiety in children with chronic illnesses and tracks how changes in child and parent stories about family events are related to child and family adjustment. She is invested in bringing family science to the public to inform decision makers and opinion leaders to better the health and wellbeing of children. Her latest book, Family Routines and Rituals, was published in 2006 by Yale University Press.
Selected Journal Articles (2005-2007)
Fiese, B. H., Foley, K., P. & Spagnola, M. (2006). Routine and ritual elements in family mealtimes: Contexts for child well-being and family identity. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 111, 67-90.
Fiese, B. H., & Everhart, R. S. (2006). Medical adherence and childhood chronic illness: Family daily management skills and emotional climate as emerging contributors. Current Opinions in Pediatrics, 18, 551-557.
Fiese, B. H. (2006). Opportunities for the future in family systems medicine. Families, Systems, and Health, 24, 412-415.
Fiese, B. H., Winter, M. A., Sliwinski, M., & Anbar, R. (2007). Nighttime waking in children with asthma: An exploratory study of daily fluctuations in family climate. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 95-103.
Jacobs, M. P., & Fiese, B. H. (2007). Family mealtime interactions and overweight children with asthma: Potential for compounded risks? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 32, 64-68.
Fiese, B. H. (2007). Routines and Rituals: Opportunities for Participation in Family Health. OTJR: Occupation, Participation, and Health, 41S-49S.
Spagnola, M. & Fiese, B. H. (2007). Family Routines and Rituals: A Context for Development in the Lives of Young Children. Infants and Young Children, 20, 284-299
Fiese, B. H., Winter, M. A., Anbar, R. D., Howell, K. J., & Poltrock, S. (2008). Family climate of routine asthma care: Associating perceived burden and mother-child interaction patterns. Family Process, 47, 63-79.
Everhart, R. S., Fiese, B. H., Smyth, J. M. (2008). A cumulative risk model predicting caregiver quality of life in pediatric asthma. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 33, 809-818.
Fiese, B. H., & Schwartz, M. (2008). Reclaiming the family table: Mealtimes and child health and wellbing. Society for Research in Child Development Social Policy Report. Vol XXII, No. IV.Books
Fiese, B. H. (2006) Family routines and rituals. Yale University Press.
*Nominated for the 2007 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award
Pratt, M. W. & Fiese, B. H. (Eds.) (2004). Family stories and the life course: Across time and generations. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.