Dr. Kimberly A. Tyler is George Holmes University Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Co-Director of the Longitudinal Networks Core, Rural Drug Addiction Research Center.

Her areas of research include child abuse and neglect, high-risk adolescents, sexual victimization, HIV risk behaviors, social networks, dating violence, and substance use.

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Dr. Tyler recently received a five-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This project uses a socio-ecological framework to examine linkages between Proximal risk factors, Affect regulation, and Coping behaviors (PAC). Specifically, we will identify factors that influence positive vs. negative coping behavior for youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) to develop a just-in-time personal support intervention that is data-driven, relevant to our population, provides individualized support, and can be sustainable outside the research setting.

This study is highly innovative as youth experiencing homelessness are a highly mobile group and oftentimes, traditional interventions where youth must come into agencies to receive the intervention do not work for many youths, especially those deemed at highest risk, who are oftentimes, the youth in most need of an intervention. Thus, a mobile app that sends messaging content and service information directly to their phone for a just-in-time intervention is highly innovative and culturally specific to this population.

Dr. Tyler also completed a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse that studied primary and secondary stressors and their association with substance use and how secondary stressors and protective social resources co-vary with substance use using ecological momentary measurement (EMA) with homeless youth and young adults. Published papers from this project appear under her list of Publications.

Dr. Tyler was previously awarded a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study social networks and HIV risk behavior among homeless youth.

She also completed a K01 Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, which supported five years of funding on her research project entitled, “Neglect and Abuse Histories Among Homeless Young Adults.”

In terms of teaching interests, Dr. Tyler has taught graduate seminars on Partner Violence, High-Risk Youth and Adolescents, Child Abuse and Neglect, Family, Aging, and Family Violence. She has also recently taught Perspectives on Families.

Teaching

Courses

Spring 2023
Perspectives on Families
449/849

Spring 2022
Perspectives on Families
449/849

Fall 2021

Contemporary Family Issues

325

Spring 2021

Family Violence Seminar

904

Spring 2020

Professional Development Seminar

995b

Fall 2019

Family Violence

4/800

Spring 2019

Professional Development Seminar

995b

Fall 2018

Contemporary Family Issues

325

Spring 2018

Senior Seminar
495

Fall 2017
Contemporary Family Issues
325

Spring 2017
Introductory Sociology
101

Senior Seminar
495

Fall 2016
Contemporary Family Issues
325

Spring 2016
Introductory Sociology
101

Fall 2014
Senior Seminar
495

Spring 2014

Senior Seminar

495

Fall 2013
Contemporary Family Issues
425/825
Family Seminar
904

Spring 2013
Partner Violence Seminar
998

Fall 2012
Contemporary Family Issues
425/825

Spring 2012
Professional Development Seminar
995b

Fall 2011
Family Seminar
904

Spring 2011
Professional Development Seminar
995b

Fall 2010
Contemporary Family Issues
425/825

Fall 2009
Family Seminar
904

Spring 2009
Family Theory and Research
449/849

Fall 2007
Contemporary Family Issues
425/825

Spring 2007
Professional Development
995b

Fall 2006
Family Seminar
904

Spring 2006
Professional Development
995b

Fall 2005
Special Topics: Child Abuse & Neglect
Seminar
998