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Paul Florsheim

Professor, Community & Behavioral Health Promotion, School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dr. Paul Florsheim’s research interests focus on: (1) public health issues relevant to high-risk adolescents, including the prevention of relationship problems and mental illness (intimate partner violence. substance abuse, psychosis, and behavioral disorders); (2) interpersonal developmental processes related to health and mental health across the lifespan. His current projects include: (1) the development of a […]

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Recent Postings

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

CCF Board Member Barbara Risman On How To Help Working Parents While Also Equalizing Children’s Educational Access

Long-term Risks to Children from Economic Toll of COVID-19

Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”?

Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

CCF’s Joshua Coleman on Helping Your Family Take COVID-19 Seriously

Transgender Youth Allowed to Use Their Chosen Name Have Fewer Mental Health Problems

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“The Tool We Have”: Why Child Protective Services Investigates So Many Families and How Even Good Intentions Backfire

Long-term Risks to Children from Economic Toll of COVID-19

Same-Sex Couples Devote More Attention to End-of-Life Plans than Heterosexual Couples

Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

For a Limited Time Only: Josh Coleman is ‘On the Air’ with ‘Knowledge@Wharton’

Household Instability and Complexity among Undocumented Immigrants

Parenting Patterns, Racial Discrimination, and African American Adolescents’ Psychological and Academic Outcomes

Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?