Faculty Profile

Charles Hoffman
Professor

Ph.D., Adelphi University, 1972
GChild Development; General Experimental
Family psychology, parenting and family relations.

Contact Information:

Office:SB-511
Phone:909.537.7305
Fax:909.537.7003
Email:choffman@csusb.edu

Research:

Professor Hoffman's research interests are in family psychology, parenting and family relations, socialization processes, and research methods in developmental psychology. More specifically, his recent research focuses on parent-child processes, particularly in families with children with autism and other developmental disabilities. This work has focused on evaluating treatment efficacy using a family context/ecological approach, and on sleep problems in children with autism. Projects currently in progress include examination of the relationship between children's autistic symptomatology (and other coexisting conditions, including children's sleep problems) and indices of parent and family functioning. How these relationships may be affected by parental coping, resources, demographic indicators and so forth are part of the longer-term research program. He has conducted other research, in the following areas, in recent years: divorce and its aftermath, the development of gender roles, fathering (particularly post-divorce), and the psychology of men.

Teaching Interests:

On the undergraduate level, Dr. Hoffman's teaching assignments include: the Psychology Honors Seminar, Parenting and Family Relations, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology: Developmental, and Introduction to Experimental Psychology. On the graduate level, Dr. Hoffman teaches Advanced Methods in Psychological Research, and Teaching of Psychology. He also serves as chair of many thesis committees and has worked closely in supervising both undergraduate and graduates on a range of research projects. Dr. Hoffman's publications and presentations (see below) include many students, the majority of whom have gone on to complete masters and doctoral degrees in psychology.

Representative Publications:

Publication (2000- Present)

Hoffman, C. D., Sweeney, D. P., Gilliam, J. E., Lopez-Wagner, M. C., Hodge, D., Nam, C. Y., & Botts, B. (in press). Children with Autism: Sleep problems and mothers' stress. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities.

Hoffman, C. D., Sweeney, D. P., Gilliam, J. E., & Lopez-Wagner, M. Sleep problems in children with Autism and in typically developing children. (2006). Focus on Autism & Other Developmental Disabilities, 21, 146-152.

Hoffman, C. D., Sweeney, D. P., Gilliam, J. E., Apodaca, D. D., Lopez-Wagner, M. & Castillo, M. Sleep problems and symptomology in children with Autism. (2005). Focus on Autism & Other Developmental Disabilities, 20, 194-200.

Sweeney, D. P., & Hoffman, C. D. (2004). Research issues in Autism Spectrum Disorders. In R. B. Rutherford, M. M.Quinn, & S. R. Mathur (Eds.), Handbook of research in emotional and behavioral disorders (pp. 302-317). New York: Guilford.

Sweeney, D. P., Hoffman, C. D., Ashwal, S., Downey, R., & Stolz, H. (2003, August). Sleep problems in children with autism. Exceptional Parent, 86-88.

Hoffman, C. D., & Moon, M. (2000). Mothers' and fathers' gender-role characteristics and perceptions of post-divorce child care and custody. Sex Roles, 42, (9/10), 917-924.

Moon, M., & Hoffman, C. D. (2000). PsycINFO as an archival research tool: The emergence of women in psychology (1887-1997). Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 1, 16-20.

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