Missouri Prevention Science Institute

Dr. Mari­na McGreevy earned her Ph.D. in Ear­ly Child­hood Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri-Colum­bia. Although her pro­fes­sion­al back­ground is in speech-lan­guage pathol­o­gy, her cur­rent research pri­mar­i­ly focus­es on pro­mot­ing the social-emo­tion­al and behav­ioral well-being of young chil­dren with and with­out dis­abil­i­ties. In par­tic­u­lar, she stud­ies ways to train teach­ers in imple­ment­ing pos­i­tive behav­ior sup­port strate­gies across diverse ear­ly child­hood set­tings. Her work employs both qual­i­ta­tive and quan­ti­ta­tive research methods.

Dur­ing her doc­tor­al stud­ies, Dr. McGreevy con­tributed to exper­i­men­tal projects in Dr. Rachel Thibodeau-Nielsen’s Play Lab. She is an active mem­ber of the Boone Coun­ty Ear­ly Child­hood Coali­tion and is cur­rent­ly col­lab­o­rat­ing with Dr. Melis­sa Stor­mont on the fed­er­al­ly fund­ed Kinder­garten Check-Up (KCU) project

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