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Comfort, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the founding partner of Comfort Consults, LLC, which focuses on parenting assessment, staff training and program evaluation for family service programs in health, education and social services. With support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, she and her colleagues have developed the Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (KIPS), a practical assessment tool for parenting behavior with web-based training for service providers to learn to observe parents and young children in their daily work settings.
Dr. Comfort has worked as a home visitor, family/school liaison, evaluator and researcher. For nearly 30 years, she has trained researchers and service providers on parent-child interaction assessments. For the past 10 years, she has conducted evaluations with diverse programs, such as Early Head Start, regional children’s museums, infant/toddler/parent programs for families of normally developing children and those with special needs, community-based school readiness initiatives, and home visiting programs serving HIV-affected families. She has also evaluated educational partnerships to develop problem-based learning focused on health issues among low income minority youth. Prior to that, she gained 20 years of university-based federally-funded research experience in intervention programs for families of children with special needs, and for pregnant and parenting women and their children in substance abuse treatment. Dr. Comfort’s publications address parent-child interaction assessment, adolescent parenting, the characteristics and treatment outcomes of substance abusing women, and health-related problem-based learning. Dr. Comfort completed her Ph.D. in Early Childhood Special Education, as well as an M.P.H. in Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a postdoctoral fellowship in Maternal and Child Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. |
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Ray Gordon, Ph.D. has worked with industry, universities, schools, and nonprofit organizations to create customized learning systems. Dr. Gordon started his professional career as a full time research scientist. He became convinced that the most important problems confronting us involve education and development. Therefore in 1992, he turned from basic science research to education. Experiences in teaching caused him to become committed to human learning, which showed him the importance of early intervention. He joined Comfort Consults in 2005 to lead the training development for the Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (KIPS). With support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Dr. Gordon and his colleagues have developed KIPS eLearning, a convenient, interactive online training program for family service providers to learn to competently administer KIPS.
Dr. Gordon was formerly Vice President for Research and Systems Design with Kelliher & Associates, Ltd, an education consulting firm. Prior to this, he served as Director of Student-Centered Learning and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at MCP-Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. He was an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Nutrition at Tufts University. Dr. Gordon did his postdoctoral work in Biophysics at Harvard Medical School. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Nutrition from the University of Missouri and a B.S. degree in Nutrition from the University of California-Davis.
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Comfort,
M., Gordon, P.R. & Unger, D.G. (2006). The Keys to Interactive
Parenting Scale: A window into many
facets of parenting.
Journal of Zero to Three, 26(5), 37-44.
Comfort, M. & Gordon, P.R. (2006). The Keys to Interactive Parenting
Scale (KIPS): A practical observational assessment
of parenting
behavior. NHSA Dialog: A Research-To-Practice Journal for the Early Intervention Field, 9(1), 22-48.
Streichert, L.C., O’Carroll, P.W., Gordon, P.R., Stevermer,
A.C., Turner, A.M. & Nicola, R.M. (2005). Using Problem-Based
Learning as
a strategy for cross-discipline emergency preparedness
training. Journal of Public Health
Management and Practice, November
Supplement, S95-S99.
Comfort, M., Sockloff, A., Loverro, J., & Kaltenbach, K. (2003).
Multiple predictors of substance abusing women’s
treatment and life
outcomes: A longitudinal study. Addictive
Behaviors, 28(2), 199-224.
Celia LM, and Gordon PR. (2001). The use of Problem-Based Learning
to promote critical thinking in an orientation
program for novice
nurses. Journal for Nurses in Staff Development,
17 (1), 12-19.
Gordon PR, Rogers A, Comfort M, McGee B, & Gavula N (2001).
Effects of Problem-Based Learning onlow-income, urban minority
middle
school students, Educational Horizons, 79, 171-175.
Comfort, M & Kaltenbach, K. (2000). Predictors of treatment
outcomes for substance abusing women: A retrospective study. Substance
Abuse, 21(1), 33-45.
Comfort, M, Loverro, J & Kaltenbach, K. (2000). A search for
strategies to engage women in substance abuse treatment. Social Work
in
Health Care, 31, 59-70.
Comfort M & Kaltenbach K (1999). Biopsychosocial characteristics
and treatment outcomes of pregnant cocaine
dependent women in
residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs,
31 (3), 279-289.
Comfort M, Zanis D, Whitely MJ, Kelly-Tyler A, & Kaltenbach,
K. (1999). Assessing the needs of substance abusing
women: Psychometric
data on the Psychosocial History. Journal
Substance Abuse Treatment, 17,
79-83.
Balestrei JJ, Gerrity P, Geller A, Gordon PR, Kundrat M, Smithyman
K, & Zimmero S. (1998). Teams in a community
setting: The AUHS
experience. Quality Management in Health Care,
6, 31-37.
Gordon PR, Carlson L, Chessman AC, Kundrat ML Morahan PS, &
Headrick LA. (1996). A National Collaboration
for the Development of
Interdisciplinary Education of Students in
Nursing: Health administration and
medicine in continuous improvement. Academic
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973-978.
Comfort M & Kaltenbach K. (1996). The Psychosocial History:
An interview for pregnant and parenting women in
substance abuse
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Smith DL, Hoersch AL, & Gordon, PR. (1995). Problem Based Learning
in the undergraduate classroom. Journal
of Geological
Education, 43, 385-390.
Comfort M & Farran DC (1994). Parent-child interaction assessment
in family-centered intervention. Infants and
Young Children, 6, 33-45.
Harvey C, Comfort M, & Johns N (1992). Integrating parent support
into residential drug and alcohol treatment programs. Zero to Three
Bulletin, 13,11-13.
Helm JM, Comfort M, & Bailey DB (1990). Adolescent and adult
mothers of handicapped children: Maternal involvement
in play. Family
Relations, 39, 432-437.
Comfort M, Shipley TE, White K, Griffith EM, & Shandler I. (1990).
Family treatment for homeless alcohol/drug-addicted
women and their
preschool children. Alcohol Treatment Quarterly,
7, 129-147.
Comfort M (1988). Assessing parent-infant interaction. In DB Bailey
& RJ Simeonsson (Eds.), Family assessment
in early intervention
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Bailey DB, Simeonsson RJ, Winton P, Huntington GS, Comfort M, Isbell
P, O'Donnell K, & Helm JM (1986). Family-Focused
Intervention:
A functional model for planning, implementing, and
evaluating individual family services
in early intervention. Journal of the Division
for Early Childhood,
10, 156-171.
Simeonsson R, Bailey D, Huntington G & Comfort M. (1986). Testing
the goodness of fit in early intervention. Infant
Mental Health,
7, 81-94.
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