Susan S. Woodhouse, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Human Services in the College of Education at Lehigh University. Dr. Woodhouse’s research focuses on attachment and emotion regulation, preventive parenting interventions for families with infants and young children, and the process and outcome of parenting interventions. Dr. Woodhouse is particularly interested in culturally appropriate, preventive interventions to support positive parenting. She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology in 2003 from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her advisor in the Counseling Psychology program was Dr. Charles Gelso; she also worked closely with Dr. Jude Cassidy in the Developmental Psychology program. Dr. Woodhouse went on to integrate her interests in developmental and counseling psychology through a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Attachment and Process in Intervention Outcome), which was funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Development (NICHD)/National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Woodhouse spent two years as a postdoc with Dr. Jude Cassidy, then went on to take her job as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Psychology program at Penn State University. Dr. Woodhouse began her current position at Lehigh University in 2012, and publishes scholarly articles in both counseling psychology and developmental psychology journals.
