The Clinical Training Program

Current Graduate Students

Class of 2012

Anne Brassell	Mentor	Betsy Hoza
	Areas	I am interested in applied aspects of ADHD research. Namely, investigating non-pharmacological interventions aimed at increasing executive and behavioral functioning.
Andrew Gill	Mentor	Timothy Stickle
	Areas	My interests regard disordered behavior in children and adolescents, especially emerging antisociality and psychopathy. These disorders are marked by significant emotional and interpersonal deficits, and by studying the way abnormal emotional processes develop and lead to antisocial behavior, I intend to improve our ability to prevent or treat these conditions.
Nicole Lafko	Mentor	Dianna Murray-Close
	Areas	I am interested in how social factors (e.g., aggression, victimization) contribute to the development of internalizing problems (e.g., eating disorders, depression) in adolescent and young adult females. Most recently, I have begun research exploring how one’s physical reactions (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure) to stressful situations may lead to differential outcomes, such as engagement in prosocial behavior and aggression.
J.Quyen Nichols	Mentor	Betsy Hoza
	Areas	ADHD from a developmental psychopathology perspective
Elyse Rosenberg	Mentor	Keith Burt
	Areas	I am primarily interested in studying risk and resilience from a developmental psychopathology perspective. My research interests focus on how stress and coping mechanisms relate to psychological outcomes and adjustment.

Class of 2011

Victoria Baptiste	Mentor	Sondra Solomon
	Areas	Ms. Baptiste is committed to under-served populations and groups with multiple risk factors. Her research and practice will seek to investigate and address mental health disparities, access to and retention of mental health services, and culturally-appropriate therapeutic methodologies. Of special interest are the socio-cultural determinants of help-seeking behavior among racial/ethnic minorities, with an eye toward increasing that rate.
Sheau-Yan Ho	Mentor	Kelly Rohan
	Areas	1) Adult mood disorders within the context of physical health, illness, and health behaviors; 2) Women's health
Timothy LaVigne	Mentor	Betsy Hoza
	Areas	I am primarily interested in studying ADHD from a developmental psychopathology perspective. I am also interested in how peer relationships are affected in children with ADHD and researching different evidence based treatments.
Melissa Paiva-Salisbury	Mentor	Timothy Stickle
	Areas	My research interests are in the field of Forensic Psychology, with a focus on translational research. My previous work has included the study of Eyewitness Procedures, Juvenile Risk Assessment and Juvenile Mental Health Screening. My future research will focus on the etiologies of callous-unemotional traits.
Justin Parent	Mentor	Rex Forehand
	Areas	My research interests are grounded in the field of developmental psychopathology and more specifically, include examining the role of parents in their children's mental health trajectory.
Wesley Sanders	Mentor	Jamie Abaied
	Areas	My interests focus on emotion regulation and developmental psychopathology. More specifically, my research looks at emotion dysregulation as mediated by parental socialization and what effect this has on behavioral outcomes in the child. In early childhood, children are just beginning to take on the burden of regulating their own emotions; a task largely relegated to the parents in the early formative years. As this change over begins, many social factors can influence the child while he or she learns when and how to modify emotional responses. Parents obviously play an enormous role in the development of the child, but what I find of particular interest are the differences between parent genders. Given that little research has looked at paternal influence in emotional development, my research focuses on the socializing factors from both parents and the unique contributions of the father.
Meghan Schreck	Mentor	Robert Althoff
	Areas	I am interested in the etiology, assessment, and treatment of child and adolescent internalizing disorders. My current research interests are: 1) examining the biological, cognitive, and environmental processes of child and adolescent mood dysregulation, 2) applying the knowledge gained to the development and implementation of effective assessment measures and therapeutic interventions, and 3) examining the effect of exercise participation on emotion, attention and aggression problems. Additionally, I am interested in the development of an intervention program to change exercise behavior and researching the impact of such a program on gene expression.
	Service	Graduate Student Representative

Class of 2010

Jessica Clifton	Mentor	Alessandra Rellini
	Areas	Ms. Clifton is broadly interested in human sexuality and specifically interested in exploring how emotions and communication interact with relational and sexual satisfaction.
Eileen Crehan	Mentor	Robert Altoff
	Areas	Ms. Crehan is primarily interested in childhood psychiatric disorders such as juvenile bipolar disorder/dysregulation disorder, ADHD and autism. Her focus is in building statistical models to best map these disorders.
	Service	Graduate Student Representative
Maggie Evans	Mentor	Kelly Rohan
	Areas	Adult Mood Disorders
Martin Seehuus	Mentor	Alessandra Rellini
	Areas	Mr. Seehuus' research explores how arousal works (or doesn't work) in sexual function, with a particular focus on arousal disorders. He is currently looking into the relationship between general arousal, sexual arousal and risky sexual behavior, and the possible connection between arousal disorders in women and later cardiovascular health.

Class of 2009

Carolyn Dundon	Mentor	Alessandra Rellini
	Areas	Female Sexuality
Julianna Hogan	Mentor	Micheal Zvolensky
	Areas	Anxiety and Substance Use
Amy Paysnick	Mentor	Keith Burt
	Areas	Risk and Resilience

Class of 2008

Matthew Albaugh	Mentor	James Hudziak
	Areas	Developmental psychopathology
Jennifer Mahon	Mentor	Kelly Rohan
	Areas	Adult Mood Disorders
Emily Mazzulla	Mentor	Alexandra Potter
	Areas	Adult and adolescent psychopathology; ADHD; fMRI
Tara McCuin	Mentor	Sondra Solomon
	Areas	Psychosocial Effects of Stigma; Coping and Resilience

Class of 2007

Kirsten Langdon	Mentor	Michael Zvolenksy
	Areas	Ms. Langdon's primary research interests are focused on more fully understanding the nature of the affective vulnerability-substance use relation. Specifically, she is interested in exploring the cognitive and affective mechanisms involved with the onset and maintenance of smoking processes among populations suffering from anxiety-related disorders.
Kate Linnea	Mentor	Betsy Hoza
	Areas	Child ADHD & Social Interactions
Victoria Marini	Mentor	Timothy Stickle
	Areas	Child Psychopathy
Lilya Sitnikov	Mentor	Kelly Rohan
	Areas	Child Eating Disorders
	Awards	George Albee Award, graduate research on community and prevention psychology

Class of 2006

Lauren Brush	Mentor	Timothy Stickle
	Areas	Psychopathy