Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center

Daphne Koinis Mitchell, PhD

Staff psychologist
Assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at theWarren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Research Interests

Daphne Koinis Mitchell, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with an interest in pediatric psychology. She has a particular interest in working with urban children with chronic illnesses and psychological concerns.

Her primary research interests are in the area of resilience and the identification of child-based, family/cultural, and neighborhood-related protective factors that may minimize children’s experience of asthma morbidity across the home and school settings

Selected Research Projects

Current collaborations:

Identifying Protective Factors in Urban Children with Asthma
The primary objectives of this project are to identify child-specific, cultural, and disease-specific protective processes that minimize asthma morbidity despite exposure to adversity in urban, low-income children from African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic backgrounds. (Principal investigator: Daphne Koinis Mitchell, PhD)

Cumulative Risks and Asthma Morbidity in Urban Children
This project seeks to test a cumulative risk index, that includes asthma-related, cultural, and contextual risks that may be associated with asthma morbidity in urban children. (Principal investigator: Daphne Koinis Mitchell, PhD)

Community Partnership to Reduce Asthma Disparities
This project compares the efficacy of two different interventions for asthma management in Latino and African American families with children who have asthma. (Principal investigator: Elizabeth McQuaid, PhD)

Pediatric Asthma Disparities: Perceptions and Management
This project assesses disparities in pediatric asthma between three groups: Island Puerto Rican children, Mainland Latino children, and Mainland Anglo children. (Principal investigator: Gregory Fritz, MD)

Selected Publications

Greene, C., Murdock, K. K., Koinis Mitchell, D. (in press). Coping with Illness-Related Stress Among Urban Children with Asthma. Children’s Health Care.

LaRoche, M., Koinis Mitchell, D., & Guardroom, L. (2006). A culturally competent asthma intervention for African American and Hispanic Families: The Multi-Family Group Treatment Approach. Annals of Allergy and Asthma, and Immunology, 96, 80-85.

Koinis Mitchell, D., Adams, S., & Murdock, K. K. (2006). Associations Among Risk Factors, Individual Resources, and Indices of School-Related Asthma Morbidity in Urban, School-Aged Children. Journal of School Health .

Bender Berz, J., Murdock, K. K., & Koinis Mitchell, D. (2005). Children's asthma, internalizing problems, and social functioning: An urban perspective. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing , 18, 181-197.

McQuaid, E., Koinis Mitchell, D., & Esteban, C.(in press).Allergies and Asthma.To appear in Children’s Needs III: Understanding and Addressing the Developmental Needs of Children.

Koinis Mitchell, D ., & Murdock, K. K. (2005). Identifying Resource Factors for Urban Children with Asthma: The Health-Context-Development Triad. Journal of Asthma, 42, 425- 436.

Koinis Mitchell, D ., Murdock, K. K., & Berz, J. (2004). Developmental, gender, and health variations in self-competence and depressed mood among urban children. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 11 (4). 333-355.

Koinis Mitchell, D ., Murdock, K., K., & McQuaid, E. L. (2004). Risk and Resilience in Urban Children with Asthma: A Conceptual Model and Exploratory Study. Children’s Health Care, 33 (4), 275-298.

Walders, N., McQuaid, E., Kopel, S. J., & Koinis Mitchell, D. (2005). Patterns of quick-relief and long-term controller medication use in pediatric asthma. Journal of Pediatrics. 10, 177-182.

Koinis Mitchell, D ., & Murdock, K. K. (2002). Self-Competence and Coping in Urban Children with Asthma. Children’s Health Care, 31, 273-293.

Rice, C., Koinis, D., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Winner, E. (1997). When three-year-olds pass the Appearance-Reality Task. Developmental Psychology, 31(1), 54-61.

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