Liliana Lengua, Ph.D. is UW’s Maritz Family Foundation Professor of Psychology and has directed the Center for Child and Family Well-Being since its founding in 2011. A child clinical psychologist, she studies the effects of adversity on children and examines risk and protective factors that contribute to children’s resilience or vulnerability. Her research has focused on the contributions of children’s temperament, coping, and parenting in contributing to children’s responses to adversity.  

The seminar is co-hosted with the Department of Psychology.