Lawrence B. Schiamberg, Professor
Family & Child Ecology
College of Social Sciences
8 Human Ecology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517.432.8293
schiambe@msu.edu

Positions at MSU
Associate Dean for Research, Outreach and International Programs in the College of Human Ecology (1999-2003)

Director of the Institute for Children, Youth and Families (ICYF) at MSU from 1996-1998, where he was also the Senior Editor of the MSU Series on Children, Youth, and Families.

Teaching, Research, and Outreach
Field of lifespan human development, with a focus on adolescence/youth and adult development/aging. He is the author of numerous published articles and books, including:

Schiamberg, L.B.and McKinney, K.,(2003) Factors Influencing expectations to Move or Age in Place at Retirement Among 40-to 65-Year Olds, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Vol.22(1), 19-41.

Schiamberg, L.B. and Isele, E. (2003), Cyber Seniors/Cyber Teens: An A Community-Based Approach for Teaching Youth to Teach Computer Skills to Senior Citizens, in Miller, J.R., Lerner, R.M., Schiamberg, L. and Anderson, P. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Human Ecology, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.

Schiamberg, L.B. and Gans, D., (2003). Elder Abuse: An Ecological Perspective to An Intergenerational Problem, in Miller, J.R., Lerner, R.M., Schiamberg, L.B., and Anderson, P. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Human Ecology, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.

Schiamberg, L.B., (2001) Environmental Health Issues, in Lerner, R.M. and Lerner, J.V.(Eds.), Adolescence In America: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio;

Schiamberg, L.B., (2001) Grandparents: Intergenerational Relations, Adolescence In America: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.

Schiamberg, L.B. and Gans, D., (2000), Elder Abuse by Adult Children: An Applied Ecological Framework for Understanding Contextual Risk Factors and the Intergenerational Character of Quality of Life.  International Journal of Aging and Development, Vol. 50 (4) 329-359.

Schiamberg, L.B. and Gans, D., (1999), An Ecological Framework for Contextual Risk Factors in Elder Abuse by Adult Children, Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, Vol. II (1) 79-103.

Schiamberg, L., Adolescent Alienation (Merrill Publishing Co., 1973); Schiamberg, L. (with J.McKinney and L. Shelton) Teaching About Adolescence (1998, Garland Publishing Co.).

Larry Schiamberg has also authored some of the first human development and child development textbooks written from a systems/ecological perspective --Human Development (1982, with K.U. Smith, and 1985, Macmillan Publishing Co.) and Child and Adolescent Development (1988, Macmillan Publishing Co.).

Currently he is directing a funded research project ($30, 000 MSU FACT grant), “Cyber Seniors/CyberTeens: A Community-Based Intergenerational Project for Bridging Generational and Digital Divides,”a program for the enhancement of positive youth development and the health and well being of senior citizens by teaching youth to teach computer and internet access skills to senior citizens.

He is also a CO-PI on a national/state funded study of elder abuse in Michigan nursing homes, “Vulnerable Medicaid Populations” ($712, 000—MDCH). In addition he is the Associate Editor for Human Development and Family, Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal.

He serves in an advisory capacity on the EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and on the CDC  Advisory Committee for planning CDC research and programs in Elder Abuse.

Curriculum Vitae