Michael Merten

Assistant Professor

Area: Human Development and Family Science

1111 MH
Tulsa, OK 74106
 
Phone: 918-594-8318
Fax: 918-594-8281
michael.merten@okstate.edu

Educational Background:

• Multi-level regression analysis

• Community and family factors impacting youth health and development

• Family risk and resilience in disadvantaged contexts

• Childhood and adolescent context and psychosocial outcomes in young adulthood

• Families transitioning from homelessness to independent living

• Impact of obesity on family relationships among parents and youth

• Editorial Board, Journal of Community Psychology

• Editorial Board, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

• Winner of the Student/New Professional Award from the NCFR, November 2006, Minneapolis, MN. For paper entitled, "Family structures and adolescent health risk outcomes: A multi-level approach.”

• National Council on Family Relations

• Society for Research on Adolescence

• American Sociological Association

• Society for Research in Child Development

• Oklahoma Department of Health and Human Services. (2006, October.). Determining individual, familial and community factors that influence young adolescent Native American dietary and physical activity behaviors. $47,102.

• United States Department of Agriculture, Oklahoma Agriculture Experiment Station Project. Conflict management and positive parenting intervention study. Amanda Morris (PI) and Co-PI’s Michael J. Merten, Carolyn Henry, and Matthew Brosi, Oklahoma State University. (September 2007- August 2009; $90,520).

• United States Department of Agriculture, Oklahoma Agriculture Experiment Station Project. Fostering aspirations, opportunities and success through a comprehensive mentoring program for families and adolescents in transitional housing. Michael J. Merten (PI) and Co-PI’s Ron Cox, Amanda Morris, and Amanda Williams, Oklahoma State University. (September 2008-August 2010; $80,376).

• Adolescent Development

  HDFS  3423

• Family Dynamics

  HDFS  3443

• Observation and Assessment

  HDFS  3533

• Family Risk and Resilience

  HDFS  4423

• Research Methods

  HDFS  5133

• Adolescence in a Family Context

  HDFS  5573