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Teaching Experience

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Publications

Lesnick, Lynne (1998).   Intensive aftercare programs for repetitive juvenile offenders.   The Institute of Law , Psychiatry, & Public Policy at the University of Virginia World Wide Web site, the Juvenile Forensic Evaluation Resource Center [http://ness.sys.virginia.edu/juv/IntenseAfter.html] .

Lesnick, L.A. (1998, June).   Youth offenders and the juvenile justice system.   Presented at the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Crisis Intervention Association of Pennsylvania , State College , PA.

Lesnick, L.A. , Mulvey, E.P., Johnson, L.E., Thompkins, W.D., Folks, E.A. (1998, May). The Pittsburgh Youth Collaborative Evaluation Project: Applied Technical Assistance and Evaluation of Minority Youth Aftercare Services.   Presented at the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency's Promising Approaches II: Building Blocks for Prevention and Intervention Services for Minority Youth Conference 1998, Pittsburgh , PA.

Clark, D.B., Neighbors, B.D., Lesnick, L.A. , Lynch, K.G., & Donovan, J.E. (1998).   Family functioning and adolescent alcohol use disorders.   Journal of Family Psychology , 12 , 81-92.

Clark , D.B., Lesnick, L., Hegedus, A.M. (1997).   Traumas and other adverse life events in adolescents with alcohol abuse and dependence.   Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , 36 , 1744-1751.

Lesnick, L.A. , & Clark , D.B. (1996, June).   Child abuse and neglect potential in mothers of adolescents with alcohol use disorders.   Presented at the 1996 Joint Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, Washington , D.C.

Lesnick, L.A. , & Clark, D.B. (1996).   Child abuse and neglect potential in mothers of adolescents with alcohol use disorders.   Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research , 20 , 134A.

Lesnick, L.A. (1995, May).   Child-to-parent violence.   Presented at the Journal Club co-sponsored by the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center and Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA.

Lesnick, L.A. (1994, December).   Adolescent aggressiveness toward parents: Developmental considerations.   Unpublished master's thesis, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA.


Hegedus, A.M., Kirisci, L., Kaczynski, N.A.G., Lesnick, L., & Tarter, R.E. (1992, October). Psychosocial stressors and violence in adolescents: The role of alcoholism.   Presented at the NIAAA Conference on Genetic Susceptibility, Biological Markers of Vulnerability, and Alcoholic Subtypes, Farmington , CT.  

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Methods of Research and Practice, Child Development and Child Care Undergraduate  Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (January - April 1999).

Description: Review of methods of qualitative research techniques (observing and

interviewing children) and practice methods for crisis intervention with high risk children and youth; 40 students enrolled.

Invited Guest Lecturer, Qualitative Research Methods, Child Development and Child Care Graduate Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 11, 1998   ).

Description: Discussion of applications of qualitative research and program evaluation techniques.

Committees & Community Volunteerism

Finance Coordinator, Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), International,

North Way MOPS Chapter, Wexford, Pennsylvania (June 2002 - May 2004).

Children's Support Group Coordinator and Small Group Facilitator, Confident Kids ~ Confident Parents, North Way Christian Community, Wexford, Pennsylvania (October 1998 - February 2001).

Description: Support group for high stress and dysfunctional families with children ages preschool to twelve years old.

Committee Member, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency's Promising Approaches II: Building Blocks for Prevention and Intervention Services for Minority Youth Conference 1998 Planning Committee (October 1997 - May 1998).