Dr. Sheehan has served on numerous Center for Scientific Review study groups, including the Biobehavioral and Social Science Review Group in the area of Risk, Prevention, and Health Behavior. He has worked in the past as a therapist for a local counseling center and specialized in helping individuals with Developmental Disabilities and also with helping parents with difficult children.
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She has taught parenting classes for over 15 years and served as a family consultant in the middle-school environment, coordinating and implementing multi-systemic interventions with students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
Laura is co-author of The First Three Years Series, a developmentally-based, intensive 30-session group parenting program designed for parents of children aged birth to three. Dr. Backen Jones is also a team member on an evaluation study of the The First Three Years curriculum, a collaborative effort between the University of Oregon and Oregon Research Institute.
Laura received training in family and marital counseling and has many years experience creating and conducting cognitive and social-emotional assessments with teachers, parents and young children. She received her doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Oregon.
She also teaches a parenting class at the local community college.
Parenting Class at Lane Community College