HDFS Faculty Labs
Adult Development and Aging
Adult Development and Aging Project
ADAPT lab focuses on understanding and promoting healthy development in early, middle, and late adulthood. Specific emphasis is given to cognitive, emotional, and social factors of adult development and aging.
The BRAiN Laboratory
The BRAiN Laboratory studies the mechanisms of decline, maintenance, and plasticity of the adult and aging brain. The lab is interested in how brain health translates to cognitive performance in aging.
Health, Emotion, and Aging Research Team
HEART examines how individuals develop the abilities to regulate emotional experiences and cope with daily stressors and how these skills can be harnessed to promote healthy and successful aging.
Healthy Cognitive Aging Lab
The Healthy Cognitive Aging Lab identifies and evaluates factors that promote healthy age-related cognitive changes, serve as early indicators of cognitive decline, and reduce the risk of developing dementia.
Promoting Healthy Aging and Families Research Lab
We support individuals as they experience aging-related family issues through the development and testing of new interventions and support mechanisms designed for family caregivers and care recipients and for grand-families.
Emotion, Regulation, and Relational Processes
Couple and Family Enhancement Lab
The CAFE lab is interested in exploring healthy romantic relationships from two angles: prevention and intervention.
Emotional Attachment and Emotional Availability Lab
The Emotional Attachment and Emotional Availability Lab has been involved with the development of the Emotional Availability System to evaluate the quality of parent-child relationships.
Emotional Development Lab
The Emotional Developmental Laboratory studies how personal and interpersonal processes contribute to regulation and dysregulation of emotions, motivation, and positive interventions.
Family Relationships and Development Lab
The Family and Development lab studies how marital conflict and poor-quality relationships with parents puts adolescents at risk for problems regulating responses to stress, biases in attention, and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and problem behaviors.
Treatment, Intervention, and Prevention Science
Adolescent Wellness Lab
The AWL Lab studies how to lower stress and depression, increase healthy behaviors, decrease teens’ likelihood of developing physical and mental health problems, and prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Campus Connections Therapeutic Mentoring Lab
Campus Connections is grounded in evidence-based practices for youth mentoring while also conducting rigorous research to maximize intervention effects.
Mindfulness and Family Resilience Lab
The Mindfulness and Family Resilience Lab conducts studies focusing on how mindfulness affects interactions between parents and their children and how to use what is learned to inform and create future prevention and intervention efforts for families.
Risk, Resilience, and Developmental Psychopathology
Developmental Disabilities Research Laboratory
The Developmental Disabilities Research Laboratory at Colorado State University aims to improve our understanding of development in Down syndrome and other disabilities.