Rate My Professor Megan Baril

Dr. Megan Baril serves as a professor in the Psychology department at Southern New Hampshire University, delivering instruction in key areas such as disorders of childhood and adolescence and adolescent development. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. from Penn State University, and a B.A. from Wake Forest University. This robust educational foundation supports her commitment to educating students in psychological principles and human development.

In parallel with her role at Southern New Hampshire University, Dr. Baril holds the position of Associate Teaching Professor of Human Development and Family Studies in the Department of Health and Human Development at Pennsylvania State University. She has also been a contributing faculty member in the Developmental Psychology graduate program within Walden University's Richard W. Riley College of Education and Human Sciences, School of Psychology, since 2012. During her over 15 years of teaching and research in Human Development and Family Studies, Dr. Baril has served as Subject Matter Expert for the development of the Social and Emotional Development course (DPSY 8228) and as Lead Faculty for Lifespan Psychology (PSYC 6215) at Walden University. Her research specializations and academic interests center on the associations between parental knowledge, monitoring, parent-adolescent relationship quality, and both positive and negative well-being indicators during adolescence. Additional foci include the development of parental knowledge across middle childhood and adolescence, the connections between religiosity and family processes such as parenting and parent-child relationship quality, and broader family dynamics and processes within the family system. These contributions underscore her influence in advancing understanding of family relationships and adolescent psychological development.