Dr. Kevin Ray Bush is an Associate Professor of Family Studies and Social Work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests focus on child and adolescent development in the contexts of family and culture. Dr Bush has studied the relat
...MoreDr. Kevin Ray Bush is an Associate Professor of Family Studies and Social Work at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests focus on child and adolescent development in the contexts of family and culture. Dr Bush has studied the relationships between parental influences and child and adolescent development, including academic achievement, self-concept, self-efficacy, as well as internalizing and externalizing issues. He has conducted studies with US (Appalachian, African American, Asian American and Latinos) and international (e.g., Chinese, Mexican, South Korean, and Russian) samples of children, adolescents and parents. Dr. Bush is also interested in research methods and program evaluation, and is currently in his fifth year of evaluating a child and family intervention program for low income families that is in place in over 40 schools in Butler County Ohio. He is also in his third year of evaluating a child and family intervention program for substance abusing parents with children in the Butler County child welfare system. Dr. Bush earned his BA in Psychology and MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from Arizona State University; and his PhD in Human Ecology (Human Development and Family Relations) from The Ohio State University with a minor in Developmental Psychology.
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Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
