John Borkowski

Contact Information

John G. Borkowski
Department of Psychology
114B Haggar Hall
574-631-6549
Borkowski.1@nd.edu

Degrees

A.B., Psychology St. Benedict’s College
M.A., Psychology Ohio University
Ph.D. Psychology University of Iowa

Honors/Awards

Cross of St. Benedict, 1993
Career Research Scientist Award—Academy on Mental Retardation, 1996
Notre Dame Faculty Award, 2000
Edgar Doll Award—APA (Division 33), 2003
Notre Dame’s Research Achievement Award, 2006
Rodney F. Ganey Community-Based Research Award, Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, 2006

Educational Research Interests

Professor Borkowski is currently engaged in two large-scale, multi-site intervention projects designed to understand and reduce the incidence of abuse and neglect in at-risk mothers, with an aim towards enhancing children’s preschool readiness. Another major project—a 15-year study on teenage parenting and the way it affects the developmental delays in young mothers and their children—has followed children born to adolescent mothers in the late 1980s, as they enter their turbulent teenage years; academic success and failure during childhood and adolescence are linked to specific maternal childrearing practices.

Titles of Current Educational Studies

Preventing Child Neglect in High-Risk Mothers and Enhancing Preschool Development

Preventing Child Maltreatment through a Cellular-Phone Technology-Based Parenting Program

Precursors of Retardation in Children with Teenage Mothers

Select Publications

Weed, K., Keogh, D., & Borkowski, J. (2006). Stability of resilience in children of adolescent mothers. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27, 60-77.

Willard Noria, C., Borkowski, J. G., & Whitman, T. L. (2008). Self-regulation, school achievement, and classroom adjustment in children of adolescent mothers. European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Smith, L. E., Borkowski, J. G., & Whitman, T. L. (2008). From reading readiness to reading competence: The role of self-regulation in at-risk children. Scientific Studies of Reading, 12, 131-152.

Weaver, C. M., Borkowski, J. G., & Whitman, T. L. (2008). Violence breeds violence: Childhood exposure and adolescent conduct problems. Journal of Community Psychology, 36, 96-112.

Schatz, J.N., Smith, L., Keogh, D., Borkowski, J.G., & Whitman, T.L. (in press). Maltreatment, self-regulation, and developmental delays in at-risk children. Child Abuse and Neglect.

Nicholson, J. S., Deboeck, P., Farris, J. R., Boker, S. M., & Borkowski, J. G. (under second review). Maternal Depressive Symptomatology and Child Behavior: A Dynamical System with Simultaneous Bi-directional Coupling. Development and Psychopathology.

Brief Bio

Professor John Borkowski holds the Andrew J. McKenna Family Chair at the University of Notre Dame and is the recipient of the Career Research Scientist Award from the Academy on Mental Retardation, the winner of Notre Dame’s Faculty Award and Research Achievement Award, and a recipient of APA’s Edgar Doll Award. He is currently engaged in two multi-site intervention projects designed to understand and reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect in at-risk mothers. A third major longitudinal project has followed children born to adolescent mothers in the late 1980s, as they enter their turbulent teenage years; his research is supported by NICHD. Professor Borkowski has published more than 150 research papers and chapters and is the co-author of eight psychology texts, including Prevention: The Science and Art of Promoting Healthy Child and Adolescent Development (2006), and Risk and Resilience: Adolescent Mothers and Their Children Grow Up (2007).