Alanna will be starting her fifth year of the MA/Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology in the Fall of 2019. She is interested in studying how young children learn to work collaboratively with others. Her master's research examined the various influences of children's sharing behaviours, while her doctoral research will be focused on how children learn to take turns with others.
Shirley is in her 6th year of the MA/PhD program in Clinical Psychology. For her Master's research, she investigated different characteristics that influence how adults interpret different statements, namely literal and ironic messages. For her doctoral work, she is interested in examining the factors that are related to the interpretation and usage of prosocial lies.
Celina is in her 5th year of the MA/PhD program in Clinical Psychology. For her doctoral work, she is investigating adolescents’ communication on social media, including what they hope to receive from other users when posting on social media and the individual differences that influence these desires.
Charlotte is in the third year of her PhD Program in Clinical Psychology. Her dissertation research looks at how individual factors about youth (e.g. their ability to consider the perspectives of others, their personality, and their cognitive skills) interact to shape their social experiences as they transition from late childhood into early adolescence. For her Master's thesis, Charlotte examined how parent and youth mentalizing mentalizing related to youth social ability, and how parents’ ability to respond sensitively to their teenagers changes during times of stress, like COVID-19.
Kowsi is in her 1st year of the MA/PhD program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Waterloo. She graduated with an Honours B.Sc. in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour with Mental Health Specialization from McMaster University. Broadly, her research interests focus on the influence of temperament and ADHD on socio-communicative behavior, with particular attention to how these factors shape communication and social interaction in both personal and social settings.
Kristen is in her 2nd year of the MA/PhD program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Waterloo. She completed her Honours B.Sc. in Psychology at UPEI. For her Master’s research, she is investigating the impact of contextual and individual factors on adolescent communication in online games. She is broadly interested in how online spaces affect development in childhood and adolescence, with a focus on how contextual factors can be manipulated to alter outcomes.
Nadine is in her 1st year of the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Waterloo. She graduated with a BSc in Health Studies and MASc in Developmental and Communication Science at the University of Waterloo. Nadine’s research explores parent-child interactions and in particular, how certain parenting behaviours help or hinder children’s learning in problem-solving contexts.