Spring Dawson-McClure is an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and an Associate Research Scientist in the Institute for Prevention Science at the NYU Child Study Center. Her research focuses on the development, evaluation and dissemination of preventive interventions for children living in poverty. Dr. Dawson-McClure is particularly interested in the prevention of conduct problems, school failure and obesity in preschool-aged children from low-income, urban neighborhoods. Her clinical work is primarily with families of young children and she is a supervising clinician for the Family Studies Program at the NYU Child Study Center.

Dr. Dawson-McClure received her BS in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Arizona State University.

Prior to joining the NYU Child Study Center, Dr. Dawson-McClure completed a pre-doctoral research fellowship at the NIMH-funded Prevention Research Center at Arizona State University, and the Clinical Psychology Internship Program at NYU/Bellevue Hospital Center.

Dr. Dawson-McClure has published in numerous journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Maternal and Child Health Journal. She is a member of the Society for Prevention Research and the Society for Research in Child Development.