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Burlington, VT 05405-0134
United States
- B.S. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2007
- M.S. University of Utah, 2011
- Ph.D. University of Utah, 2015
Clinical Psychology
BIO
Dr. Hughes Lansing is a pediatric (child clinical health) psychologist. Her primary research interest is in designing and testing programs, systems, and behavioral interventions that help kids, teens, and their families facing health challenges get access to the holistic healthcare they want and need to live joyful and fulfilling lives. Dr. Hughes Lansing's research is interdisciplinary, collaborating with teams from pediatric specialty care, patients and families, and community systems to co-produce knowledge, programs, and behavioral interventions. In addition, her research incorporates mobile sensing, intensive longitudinal modeling, and digital interventions to explore ways to deliver not only accessible but also personalized interventions that support pediatric health.
The APRICOTS Lab -
Accessible and Personalized Interventions for Child Health Outcomes
Our mission is to develop accessible and personalized interventions to improve child health outcomes. First, we collaborate with pediatric patients, families, and medical teams to design accessible interventions to promote pediatric health across development. Our interventions address three primary domains of pediatric psychology lifespan health research: chronic health condition management, cardioprotective health behavior change, and social needs/policy intervention. For example, we develop interventions that help families navigate complex care systems, adjust to managing chronic conditions, increase cardioprotective dietary choices, physical activity, and high-quality sleep, and decrease tobacco use and other health-harming behaviors, as well as address social needs like food insecurity.
Second, we personalize and optimize the delivery of our interventions by using intensive longitudinal methods to create personalized “maps” to guide intervention content and delivery. These “maps” model the interactions of biological, behavioral, social, and structural systems that contribute to a child and family’s health in daily life.
Third, we believe that success in this mission requires conducting research that centers on the lived expertise of our patients and families and speaks to the complexity of interactions between biological, behavioral, social, and structural systems in explaining health outcomes across the lifespan.
Current Projects include developing a digital parent-teen intervention for health behavior change in young teens experimenting with substance use and examining heart health in children with chronic health conditions including interventions to promote lifespan health in teens with chronic health conditions that elevate risk for CVD and developing a parent-peer mentor program for pregnant persons receiving a fetal CHD diagnosis.
Publications
Google Scholar - Amy Hughes Lansing
Awards and Achievements
- 2024 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Graduate Student Senate, University of Vermont
- 2018 Senior Scholar Mentor Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Reno
- 2016 Training Award, Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions, OBSSR
- 2016 Citation Abstract Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine
- 2015 Student Poster Award, Society of Pediatric Psychology
- 2014 Katherine and Ezekiel Dumke Jr. Scholarship, University of Utah
- 2014 Travel Award, Society of Pediatric Psychology
- 2012 Research Commendation, Department of Psychology, University of Utah
- 2012 Outstanding Research, Child & Family Health SIG, Society of Behavioral Medicine
- 2007 Magna Cum Laude, B.S. in Psychobiology, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, University of California, Los Angeles
Bio
Dr. Hughes Lansing is a pediatric (child clinical health) psychologist. Her primary research interest is in designing and testing programs, systems, and behavioral interventions that help kids, teens, and their families facing health challenges get access to the holistic healthcare they want and need to live joyful and fulfilling lives. Dr. Hughes Lansing's research is interdisciplinary, collaborating with teams from pediatric specialty care, patients and families, and community systems to co-produce knowledge, programs, and behavioral interventions. In addition, her research incorporates mobile sensing, intensive longitudinal modeling, and digital interventions to explore ways to deliver not only accessible but also personalized interventions that support pediatric health.
The APRICOTS Lab -
Accessible and Personalized Interventions for Child Health Outcomes
Our mission is to develop accessible and personalized interventions to improve child health outcomes. First, we collaborate with pediatric patients, families, and medical teams to design accessible interventions to promote pediatric health across development. Our interventions address three primary domains of pediatric psychology lifespan health research: chronic health condition management, cardioprotective health behavior change, and social needs/policy intervention. For example, we develop interventions that help families navigate complex care systems, adjust to managing chronic conditions, increase cardioprotective dietary choices, physical activity, and high-quality sleep, and decrease tobacco use and other health-harming behaviors, as well as address social needs like food insecurity.
Second, we personalize and optimize the delivery of our interventions by using intensive longitudinal methods to create personalized “maps” to guide intervention content and delivery. These “maps” model the interactions of biological, behavioral, social, and structural systems that contribute to a child and family’s health in daily life.
Third, we believe that success in this mission requires conducting research that centers on the lived expertise of our patients and families and speaks to the complexity of interactions between biological, behavioral, social, and structural systems in explaining health outcomes across the lifespan.
Current Projects include developing a digital parent-teen intervention for health behavior change in young teens experimenting with substance use and examining heart health in children with chronic health conditions including interventions to promote lifespan health in teens with chronic health conditions that elevate risk for CVD and developing a parent-peer mentor program for pregnant persons receiving a fetal CHD diagnosis.
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- 2024 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Graduate Student Senate, University of Vermont
- 2018 Senior Scholar Mentor Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Reno
- 2016 Training Award, Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions, OBSSR
- 2016 Citation Abstract Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine
- 2015 Student Poster Award, Society of Pediatric Psychology
- 2014 Katherine and Ezekiel Dumke Jr. Scholarship, University of Utah
- 2014 Travel Award, Society of Pediatric Psychology
- 2012 Research Commendation, Department of Psychology, University of Utah
- 2012 Outstanding Research, Child & Family Health SIG, Society of Behavioral Medicine
- 2007 Magna Cum Laude, B.S. in Psychobiology, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, University of California, Los Angeles
Selected Publications
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- ^King, K. P., ^Humiston, T., Gowey, M. A., Murdaugh, D. L., Dutton, G. R., & Lansing, A. H. (in press). A biobehavioural and social-structural model of inflammation and executive function in pediatric chronic health conditions. Health Psychology Review.
- ^Hacker, N., Haxel, C., Flyer, J., & Lansing. A. H. (2022). Commentary: Centering oppression in research methodology toward developing interventions to address health inequities. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 47, 870-872.
- Cummings, C., ^Benjamin, N. E., ^Prabhu, H. Y.,^ Cohen, L. B., ^Goddard, B. J., Kaugars, A. S., ^Humistion, T. & Lansing, A. H. (2022). Habit and diabetes self-management in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Health Psychology, 41, 13-22.
- ^Cummings, C., Lansing, A. H., Hadley, W., & Houck, C. D. (2023). Intervention impact on the perceived emotion regulation repertoire of adolescents at-risk for risky sexual behaviors. Emotion, 23, 2105-2109.
- Lansing, A. H., ^^Stoianova, M., & Stanger, C. (2019). Adolescent emotional control moderates benefits of a multicomponent intervention to improve type 1 diabetes adherence: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 44, 126-136.
- Lansing, A. H., Guthrie, K. M., Hadley, W. H., Stewart, A., Peters, A. & Houck, C. (2019). Qualitative assessment of emotion regulation strategies for prevention of health risk behaviors in early adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 765-775.
- Lansing, A. H., Stanger, C., ^Crochiere, R., ^Carracher, A. & Budney, A. (2017). Delay discounting and parental monitoring in adolescents with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 40, 864-874.
- Lansing, A. H., Berg, C. A., Butner, J. B. & Wiebe, D. J. (2016). Self-control, daily negative affect, and blood glucose control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Health Psychology, 35, 643-651.
- Stanger, C., Lansing, A. H. & Budney, A. J. (2016). Advances in research on contingency management approaches for adolescent substance use. Child and Adolescents Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 25, 645-659.
- Lansing, A. H. & Berg, C. A. (2014). Adolescent self-regulation as a foundation for chronic illness self-management. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 39, 1091- 1096.