Patty Leijten (1986) works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education. Her research aims to improve the effectiveness of parenting interventions to reduce disruptive child behavior. She bridges traditional intervention research and basic developmental research by using small scale experiments (i.e., microtrials) to illuminate which discrete elements of parenting interventions actually contribute to program effectiveness and which families benefit most from which elements.

Patty received her PhD from the department of Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University, where she evaluated the effectiveness of the Incredible Years parenting intervention for socioeconomically disadvantaged families. She also works as a research officer at the University of Oxford. 

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