Mentor: Mathew Price

Mentor: Mathew Price

Mentor: Alexandra Potter

Areas: I am interested in the development of tailored cognitive-behavioral treatments. Specifically for adult mood disorders.

Mentor: Kelly Rohan

Areas: My research focuses on the treatment of substance use disorders (SUD), specifically in those with comorbid mental health conditions such as PTSD. I am particularly interested in exploring combined pharmacotherapy and therapeutic interventions to target these specific populations.

Mentor: Kelly Peck

Mentor: Betsy Hoza

Mentor: Betsy Hoza

Areas: I am interested in studying the development and outcomes of antisocial behaviors. Specifically, by utilizing behavioral, cognitive, and physiological data.

Mentor: Dianna Murray-Close

Areas: I am interested in studying early-life predictors of mental health, especially childhood adversity, and processes of resilience (or lack of resilience). I am also interested in how risk and protective factors influence each other over time to ultimately impact child developmental outcomes.

Mentor: Keith Burt

Areas: My interest lies in the application of behavioral economic and traditional psychological measures to predict and influence decision making as it pertains to health outcomes. Specifically I’m interested in working with substance abusing populations and gauging how they value their time and health compared to the substances themselves. I’m also interested in factors that influence the recovery process broadly, risk and time perception and how I can bring novel tools into the clinic to help people live happier, healthier lives.

Mentor: Elias Klemperer

Areas: I am interested in exploring the impact that dietary and nutrition related behaviors have on the health and well-being of adolescents living with a chronic illness. I am particularly interested in the social determinants and psychosocial factors that underlie these behaviors and contribute to nutrition related health disparities.

Mentor: Amy Hughes Lansing

Areas: My research areas focus on optimizing technology-assisted interventions to widen the reach of trauma-informed services. More specifically, examining mechanisms of change for PTSD and comorbid mood disorders to outline novel mHealth applications for marginalized communities. 

Mentor: Matthew Price

Areas:  My research interests are in pediatric psychology and dynamic systems. Specifically I am interested in understanding the psychosocial impact of pediatric chronic illness on multiple members of a family system.

Mentor: Amy Hughes Lansing

Areas:  I am interested in addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. Specifically, I am involved in research that investigates the therapeutic potential of exposure therapy among individuals with comorbid opioid use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Mentor: Timothy Stickle

Areas:  I am interested in investigating interventions for adult mood disorders through cognitive and physiological markers. I am particularly interested in investigating the role of physical activity in the treatment of mood disorders, as well as treatment applicability across gender identities.

Mentor: Kelly Rohan

Areas:  My research interests revolve around how social media is implicated in how teenagers and young adults engage in risky behaviors. I am also interested in potential social problems that arise from this, such as being victimized online while and how this can affect mental health. I am interested in applying different interventions to help these groups, specifically among minorities.

Mentor: Jamie Abaied

Areas:  I am interested in researching the effects of early detection and treatment of irritability, aggression, and noncompliant behavior in young children at risk for developing ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and other comorbid disorders.

Mentor: Betsy Hoza

Areas: I am interested in child-parent relationships, the socialization of coping and trauma.

Mentor: Robert Althoff

reas: : My current research concerns the psychological processes underlying restorative justice conferences and other criminal justice settings. I am also interested in the roles of existential connection and self affirmation in mental health.

Mentor: Elizabeth Pinel

Areas: I am interested in how interparental conflicts affect child developmental outcomes, especially in the context of the child’s temperament. And I intend to examine those linkages through neurophysiological markers, cognitive processes, as well as emotional reactions.

Mentor: Alice Schermerhorn

Areas: I am interested in studying nicotine use and eating behaviors. Specifically, I want to explore the differences between smoking and vaping consequences and expectancies, as well as the relationship between nicotine use and eating behaviors/body image. Currently I am working on a project designed to help determine the relationship between smoking behavior, smoking expectancies, and body dissatisfaction and negative affect.

Mentor: Antonio Cepeda-Benito

Areas: I research cognitive-behavioral interventions for depression and anxiety. My current independent work involves developing, evaluating, and implementing an ultra-brief, scalable cognitive-behavioral intervention for primary care providers to utilize in routine visits. This work aims to translate evidence-based mental health interventions into tools that can be implemented in the most accessible settings.

Mentor: Kelly Rohan

Areas: My research interests are youth and young adult substance use, primarily nicotine and tobacco use. I am particularly interested in informing addiction-related policies through population-level research.

Mentor: Andrea Villanti

Areas: I am interested in chemical and behavioral forms of addiction and comorbidity.

Mentor: Stacey Sigmon

Areas: I am interested in the psycho-physiological predictors of, and therapeutic outcomes for sexual dysfunction. I am also interested in how individual factors such as personality traits exacerbate or attenuate problems with arousal and orgasm, and how the interplay of these various factors impact sexual, romantic, and psychological well-being.

Mentor: Alessandra Rellini

Areas: I am interested in the research and application of minority stress approaches to conceptualizing mental health and distress for gender and sexual minorities as well as kink-identified populations. Within this framework, much of my work focuses on moderators of shame, pride, community, and concealment/disclosure in predicting mental and sexual health outcomes.

Mentor: Alessandra Rellini

Areas:  I am interested in the treatment of ADHD in childhood, particularly during the preschool years. I am also interested in studying risk and protective factors for ADHD in early childhood, cognitive functioning in children with ADHD, and the impacts of different learning and language impairments on child development and school readiness.

Mentor: Betsy Hoza

Mentor: Antonio Cepeda-Benito

Areas: I am interested adult mood disorders and sexual trauma.

Mentor: Kelly Rohan

Areas:  I am interested in studying (1) the role of resilience in development after traumatic experiences, (2) designing culturally appropriate assessments and treatments for depression and PTSD, especially to be used in underserved populations or resource limited settings.

Mentor:  Keith Burt

Areas: I am interested in the development and implementation of preventative interventions geared towards improving children's cognitive, social, and emotional functioning. Particularly, I am interested in the treatment of childhood ADHD, and research related to the social-emotional development of children with ADHD and comorbid disorders. Currently our lab is investigating the impact of an aerobic physical activity intervention on ADHD symptoms and school readiness outcomes in preschoolers.

Mentor:  Betsy Hoza

Areas:  I am interested in the mediating effects of the parent-child relationship and parenting style in the development of early childhood disruptive behavior disorders, aggression, and psychopathy, as well as the biological indices of aggression and victimization. 

Mentor:  Annie Murray-Close

Areas:  My primary research interests are investigating child and adolescent neural, environmental and behavioral predictors of psychopathology.  I am also interested in gender identity development during adolescence.

Mentor:  Alexandra Potter