Ernesto Barnabas

Ernesto Barnabas, a second-year graduate student in the School Psychology program at Lehigh University won the 2007 National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Graduate Student Research Award. The award was created to support graduate student research, and more specifically to facilitate high quality student-initiated research that supports the mission and goals of NASP and has the potential to impact the field positively. Only four awards are given annually, making this award a highly competitive and rigorous selection process.

Ernesto’s study titled “Examining Preferences in Parent Management Training in Partnership with Low-Income and Ethnic Minority Families” will be presented at the annual NASP within two years of receiving the award. He will also submit a summary of his research to the NASP Communiqué journal.

NASP Future of School Psychology goals that Ernesto spoke in his proposal were: Improving social-emotional functioning for all children, enhancing family-school partnerships and parent involvement in schools and increasing child and family services in schools that promote health and mental health and are integrated with community services.

Ernesto has worked under the guidance of Dr. Patricia Manz of the School Psychology program. Dr. Manz overseas a larger program called Project CARES (Children Able and Ready for Early Success). For more information on this project please visit: http://www.lehigh.edu/collegeofeducation/cprp/Patti_project.html

The School Psychology program at Lehigh University is a national leader in the development of university faculty for School Psychology programs, in the innovation for bringing research to practice, and in advancing the delivery of psychological services to educational, health, and community settings.