Rate My Professor Assaf Oshri

Oshri's research examines youth development of risk and resilience, focusing on multi-level mechanisms linking early-life adversity—such as child maltreatment, poverty, and racial discrimination—to adolescent behavioral risks including substance use and psychopathology. Employing methods like neuroimaging, psychophysiology, behavioral observations, and surveys, his work is informed by developmental systems theories and the Psychosocial Model of Hormesis, which posits that moderate stressors in supportive contexts foster resilience. He directs the Stress, Trauma, Adversity & Resilience (STAR) workgroup at the University of Georgia's Owens Institute for Behavioral Research. Oshri has received the University of Georgia's Creative Research Medal in 2023, Early Career Faculty Research Award in 2015, and an NIH K01 Career Award from NIDA (2018–2023). He is Principal Investigator on two NIDA R01 grants totaling over $6 million (2023–2028) investigating neuroecological models of early adversity and drug use vulnerability. Key publications include 'Racial discrimination and risk for internalizing and externalizing symptoms among Black youths' (JAMA Network Open, 2024), 'Strengthening through adversity: The hormesis model in developmental psychopathology' (Development and Psychopathology, 2024), 'The Hormesis Model for Building Resilience Through Adversity' (Review of General Psychology, 2022), and 'Growth patterns of future orientation among maltreated youth' (Developmental Psychology, 2018). His contributions advance prevention and intervention strategies for at-risk youth.