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Angela Huebner, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor |
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BS: University of Nebraska
MS: University of Arizona
PhD: University of Arizona |
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e-mail: ahuebner@vt.edu |
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Dr. Huebner (Angela) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development at Virginia Tech. Dr. Angela Huebner completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Family Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Prior to becoming a faculty member at Virginia Tech, Dr. Huebner was the Teen Specialist Coordinator for the USDA/Army School-Age & Teen Project. As part of this project, Dr. Huebner developed staff training and curriculum for staff working with teens on Army installations around the world.
Dr. Huebner's research interests include positive youth development and issues of risk, protection and resiliency in the lives of adolescents. Her applied work focuses on helping communities to understand and assess the risk and protective factors found in their locals and in designing programs to meet specific identified needs.
Recent projects include examining adolescent adjustment following parental
military deployment and female adolescent smoking. She has published numerous articles in professional journals including Evaluation, Journal of Youth & Adolescence, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Journal of Social Behavior Personality, Journal of Child & Family Studies, Journal of Extension, and Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal.
In addition to working with communities and conducting her research, Dr. Huebner chairs thesis committees of students in the MFT program. Several students have become interested in Dr. Huebner's research and thesis topics have evolved from their collaboration.
Dr. Huebner lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Darrin, and their
two daughters, Regina and Samantha.
RECENT RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS-
Adjustment Among Adolescents in Military
Families When a Parent is Deployed
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Parental Deployment and Youth in Military Families:
Exploring Uncertainty and Ambiguous Loss
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