Susan K. Riesch, PhD, RN, FAAN

Title: Professor
Phone: (608) 263-5169
E-mail: skriesch@wisc.edu
Support Staff: Kathie Ludwig
Office Address:

H6/238
600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792-2455

Education:

Description of Research Focus:

My research program aims to prevent children’s participation in health risk behavior by providing developmentally appropriate, family focused, theory-based interventions to families in the community, particularly during times of transition. I study interventions to promote open communication and family satisfaction, the topics that stimulate conflict, and strategies for conflict management among families with young or pre-adolescents. Developmental theory, attachment theory, and the Circumplex Model underpin the research. I use quantitative approaches with emphasis on descriptive and intervention methods. My research group is examining parent-child communication processes and interventions to reduce children’s involvement in health risk behaviors. I am also involved in the National Children's Study.  Waukesha County is a Vanguard County in the 21 year long study of environmental effects on child development and a collaborative endeavor between the UW Waisman Center and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Teaching/Course Responsibilities:
(excluding independent study courses)

Honors and Awards/Professional Service:

Representative Publications:

Riesch, S. K., Anderson, L. S., & Krueger, H. A. (2006). Parent-child communication processes: preventing children’s health risk behavior. Journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, 11(1), 41-56.

Riesch, S. K., Angresano, N., Anderson, L. S., Canty-Mitchell, J., Johnson, D. L., & Krainuwat, K. (2006). Development of the children’s health risk behavior scale.  Public Health Nursing.23:4: 366-372.

Bobula, J., Anderson, L. S., Riesch, S. K., Canty-Mitchell, J., Duncan, A., Krueger, H., Brown, R. L., & Angresano, N. (2004). Enhancing survey data collection among children and parents: Use of handheld and laptop computers. CIN: Computers, Informatics and Nursing. 22, 255-265.

Riesch, S.K., Jackson, N.M., & Chanchong, W. (2003). Communication Approaches to Parent-Child Conflict: Young Adolescence to Young Adult. Journal of Pediatric Nursing 18:4, 244-256.

Riesch, S. K., Chanchong, W., & Henriques, J. (2003). Effects of communication skill training on parents and young adolescents from extreme family types. Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 16:4, 162-17 5.

Current and Pending Extramurally Funded Projects:

Parent Child Communication and Children’s Health Risk Behavior. In review at the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) 7/10/04 through 6/30/09.