Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students:
Emily Gerstein
Graduate Student
e-mail: emily.gerstein@asu.edu
I'm currently on my pre-doctoral internship at Rush University Medical Center. I graduated from Smith College in 2003 with a B.A. in psychology, and then worked at McLean Hospital in Boston with children and adolescents with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. As a doctoral student, my research has focused on family process, emotion regulation, and the nature of risk and resilience in the development of psychopathology. My master's thesis examined systemic influences on engaged fathering in families of children at risk. During my time at ASU, I have worked on the Collaborative Family Study, assisted in the grant development of Las Madres Nuevas, and have been a predoctoral fellow in the Prevention Research Center at ASU. My dissertation research was supported by a National Research Service Award (NRSA), and addressed the influence of family systems and other family risk factors on the development of psychopathology for children at risk.
Matthew Stevenson
Graduate Student
E-mail: matthew.m.stevenson@asu.edu
I am in my sixth year in the ASU clinical psychology Ph.D. program. Prior to my doctoral studies, I graduated from the University of Rochester in 2004 with a B.A. in psychology and then spent two years as a post baccalaureate fellow in the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research and Training Award (IRTA) program. While at ASU I have worked on the Collaborative Family Study and assisted in the grant writing of Las Madres Nuevas with my advisor, Dr. Crnic. In addition, I am currently an RA on the Parents and Youth Study with Drs. Braver and Fabricius, a project that investigates father and stepfather-adolescent relationships European-American and Mexican-American families. My master’s thesis examined marital conflict and its effect on father-child relationships in families of children with and without developmental delays. I am currently investigating recent theory on the father-child “activation” relationship and its influences on children’s self-regulatory abilities and social competence for my dissertation. Broadly construed, I am interested in the unique role of fathers in the family system and their influence on children’s development, particularly in families and children at risk.
Lucia Ciciolla
Graduate Student
E-mail: lucia.ciciolla@asu.edu
I am a fifth-year student in the clinical psychology program. I graduated from Wellesley College in 2005 as a psychology and Italian major. Before I came to ASU, I worked at the Boston University Medical School in the Lab of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on a project exploring social and emotional processing in Williams syndrome. At ASU, I have been a part of the Collaborative Family Study, and have an ongoing role in the Las Madres Nuevas/Postpartum Depression project. Currently, I am a predoctoral fellow on a National Research Service Award (NRSA) investigating the dynamic nature of maternal stress and depression as they influence parenting behavior and ultimately infant cognitive and emotional development. My interests have focused on maternal sensitivity, parent-child interactions, maternal depression, and cognitive and emotional development, as well as longitudinal methodology and longitudinal quantitative analyses.
Rebecca Newland
Graduate Student
E-mail: rebecca.newland@asu.edu
I am in my fifth year in the doctoral program, with an emphasis on child clinical psychology. I graduated from Northwestern University in 2007 with a B.A. in psychology. Broadly, my research interests include transactional parent and family processes, predictors of emerging psychopathology, and early childhood risk. My master’s thesis focused on emotion socialization processes in both developmentally delayed and typically developing children, and my dissertation will explore goodness of fit and transactional parent-child relationships. Currently, I am working on the Family Life Project and the Las Madres Nuevas/Post Partum Depression Projects.
Shayna Skelley Coburn
Graduate Student
E-mail: shayna.skelley@asu.edu
I’m a fourth year in the clinical psychology program in the child track. I graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Psychology in 2006, and then worked at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD in a lab which studies the neuropsychological correlates of schizophrenia. Here at ASU, I am interested in the parent-child relationship and its connection to emotional development in children. One of my goals is to be a part of new neuroscientific approaches to studying parenting as a unique relationship both emotionally and physiologically. My master’s thesis explored maternal psychological distress and detached parenting and its relation with childhood attentional control and the emergence of internalizing symptoms. I am currently involved with the Las Madres Nuevas/Post Partum Depression Project.
Lindsay Holly
Graduate Student
E-mail: lindsay.holly@asu.edu
I am currently a third year student in the clinical psychology doctoral program with an emphasis on children and families. I graduated from the University of Maryland (B.A. in Psychology) and the University of Rochester (M.S. in Human Development-Early Childhood). I am broadly interested in the role of family processes in the development and treatment of childhood internalizing behavior problems. I am completing work on a master's thesis which explores the relation between children's anxiety-related learning experiences and anxiety symptoms. In addition to working with Dr. Crnic, I also work with Dr. Pina in his Child and Family Intervention Program Lab.
Betty Lin
Graduate Student
E-mail: betty.lin@asu.edu
I'm a second year clinical psychology student, and I graduated from UCLA in 2008 with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in applied developmental psychology. Before I came to ASU, I worked at Children's Institute Inc. in Los Angeles with families of infants and young children at heightened risk for abuse and neglect. Speaking broadly, my research interests are to explore the early risk and protective factors associated with maladaptive child outcomes and later psychopathology, especially in high-risk populations. Presently, I'm working on Las Madres Nuevas/Post Partum Depression project, assisting with data collection as well as leading the infant behavior coding teams.
Alumni (ASU):
Shannon Bekman, Ph.D. (2009)
Anita Pedersen y Arbona (2011)
