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Welcome,
My name is Kyle Eichas. I am a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Tarleton State University in Waco, Texas, USA. I am an applied developmental scientist who combines community-engaged teaching with outreach research. I aim to create community-supported positive development programs that help young people expand their sense of what is possible in their lives. I plan to use this site as a portfolio of ongoing and past research, outreach, and teaching. It is a work in progress that I will update periodically. In the meantime, you can find a description of a nonprofit organization that colleagues, students, and I are using as a platform for our outreach research projects: Clinton David Dennard Center for Changing Lives. On that site, you can find descriptions of the work we are doing to promote positive youth development in the local community (Waco Youth Development Project) and the research lab we have organized to build and test theoretical models of positive human development (Psychosocial Development Laboratory at McLennan Community College). You can also find information about an international research team to which I belong that is creating knowledge about how to support the positive development of children and adolescents: Applied Developmental Science Research Group. | ||
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One outgrowth of my interest in promoting positive youth development is a research focus on identity formation among adolescents and young adults. Most recently, I have contributed to the second edition of Identity Formation, Youth, and Development: A Simplified Approach, a preview of which can be found here: Identity Formation, Youth, and Development.
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In addition, you can find my curriculum vitae to the left and my address on the contact page.
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