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Your topic is Natasha Cabrera who works in the field of developmental psychology with a focus on father involvement, child’s social development, and ethnic and cultural variations in parenting behavior. Here is a link to her faculty profile: https://www.popcenter.umd.edu/mprc-associates/ncabrera Your partners are Katherine Reina and Santiella Jeune Dumeny. Please work in this sandbox. All of your group members’ contributions will be visible.

Natasha Cabrera (January 1,1981) is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology. Her area of interest is educational psychology. Education Psychology is described as a branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting. Education psychology consist of teaching and learning methods, cognitive development, and aptitude assessment and much more effective methods.

Biography
Cabrera has a Ph.D in educational psychology. For example, she received a bachelor degree in Psychology at the university of Toronto, Canada In 1985. She received her masters for Psychology and Education at the same university.She went to graduate school at University of Toronto,Canada in 1989 where she obtained her masters and she attended the University Denver, Colorado where she received her Ph.D in Educational Psychology in 1994. Her graduate research consisted of social development with children and parenting. Teach parents how to be involved in their children school work and activities. Basically life outside of their house. Also, cultural and ethnic differences in parenting behaviors and children's outcomes.

Currently Natasha is currently a Professor at the University of Maryland in the human Director, Family Involvement Laboratory Human Development and Quantitative Methodology. With her studies she mainly focuses on father's involvement with their children and with children social and environment and how it impact their development. She also focus on the factors such as cultural background,father and mother interactions, earn as far as how does factors may impact how they behave in school.

Natasha Cabrera is the director of Family Involvement Laboratory. The program takes place in the University of Maryland. The concept of the program is to explore ways low-income, minority parents are involved in their children's lives. The program has many influence on the parents which have impact on their children's development. The group work to gather information and data on the families.Some effective studies are taking information from baby books to educate mothers and fathers. Educational books written in English and Spanish are given to the parents.

In 2009 Dr. Natasha Cabrera received the National Council and Family Relations award for her very informative and exceptional article for Best Research Article regarding men in families.

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