Dr. Kohl’s research is informed by her clinical experience with maltreated children and their families in public and private settings. Her research focuses on the safety and mental health of children following entry into the child welfare system. Specifically, she studies how characteristics of parents within this system of care influence outcomes, and the translatability of evidence-based parent-mediated interventions into the child welfare system.
Dr. Kohl is currently working to adapt an evidence-base parent training program to increase father participation, as well as to improve father-child interactions. Her work also includes analyzing data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being, a landmark study of children and families who have been investigated for child maltreatment. Dr. Kohl’s work has received financial support from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is a faculty associate with the School’s Center for Mental Health Services Research and Center for Injury and Violence Prevention.
Dr. Kohl received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, after which she joined the faculty of the Brown School. She teaches Social Work Practice in Early Childhood and Social Work Practice with Children in Families.