Title
Professor of the Graduate School

Department
Dept of Psychology


Faculty URL
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/philip-cowan

Email
pcowan@berkeley.edu

Phone
510-526-2586

Fax
510-526-5745


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Research Expertise and Interest
couple relationships, family factors in children's development, parenting, fatherhood, preventive intervention with families

Research Description
With Carolyn Pape Cowan, Phil Cowan designed couples group interventions to strengthen family relationships, guided by a family systems model in which intergenerational attachment patterns and couple relationship quality? provide the contexts in which effective parenting leads to positive cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes for children.