Dr. Darling is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School in the Lifeline for Families Group. Her research focuses on strengthening intimate relationships across the transition to parenthood to promote thriving families and optimal child development. 

She developed the Before Baby Relationship Checkup, an evidence-based intervention that strengthens antenatal relational health to interrupt the generational transmission of trauma and protect parental well-being, creating the possibility of a fresh future for all women, children and families. 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

1.Darling, E., Byatt, N., Maher, E., Gray, T., Moore-Simas, T., & Cordova, J. (2022) The Before Baby Relationship Checkup: A couples-based intervention to reduce relationship risk factors for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. (29)295-309.

2. Stewart, K.L., Darling, E.V., Stanley, B., Brown, G.K., Yen, S., & Weinstock, L.M (2018). Dissemination of the Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) to University Counseling Center Clinicians to Reduce Suicide Risk among College Students. Archives of Suicide Research, 1-11.

3. Cordova, J., Fleming, C.E., Morrill, M, Sollenberger, J, Darling, E., Gray, T. (2014) The Marriage Checkup: A randomized controlled trial of annual relationship health checkups. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology. 82(4):592-604.

4. Darling, E. (2014) Worried Sick: Postpartum Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In N. Benders-Hadi & M. Barber (Eds.), Motherhood, Mental Illness & Recovery. Springer International Publishing AG Cham

5. Standridge, A. & Darling, E. (2014) Pregnancy, Prison, and the State Mental Health System. In N. Benders-Hadi & M. Barber (Eds.), Motherhood, Mental Illness & Recovery. Springer International Publishing AG Cham

6. Sollenberger, J., Fleming, C.E., Darling, E., Gray, T., Morrill, M.I., Hawrilenko, M. & Cordova, J. (2013) The Marriage Checkup: A Public Health Approach to Marital Wellbeing. The Behavior Therapist. 36(5), 197-202.