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Kaela Farrise Beauvoir is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at UC Santa Barbara working under Dr. Miya Barnett. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and Masters' degrees in Clinical Psychology and Counseling Psychology. Kaela is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California and a certified PCIT therapist. Her research interests include the implementation and dissemination of mental health services in under-resourced communities, understanding and mitigating the impacts of domestic violence and racial trauma on families of color, and culturally responsive adaptations of psychological interventions. Kaela is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Racial Justice Fellow at UCSB and a Health Policy Research Scholar through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Recent publications: https://www.mdpi.com/2988132

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2024.03.022

Stephanie is a second-year PhD student in Virginia Tech’s Clinical Science program. Her research focuses on uncovering treatment mechanisms for child and adolescent behavioral disorders by using advanced statistical methods to model how environmental and family-level factors shape emotion regulation, dysregulation, and related psychopathology. Aside from working with families as a clinician, Stephanie is deeply committed to refining research methodologies and analytical approaches to address complex questions about parent-child interactions and developmental trajectories. Learn more about Stephanie’s work here: https://www.calmerlab.com/

Mackenzie is first year student in the Clinical and Counseling Psychology Doctoral program at the University of South Alabama. She has interest in parenting interventions for autistic youth as well as social skills interventions. She recently co-authored two funded internal grants for the development and preliminary testing of a PEERS-campus social skills group for autistic college students. In her 1st year at USA, she presented at 2 national conferences, and has 2 manuscripts nearing completion for submission. Mackenzie truly is a rising star!

Annah is third-year graduate student in the Clinical Science program at Virginia Tech! Her research interests span the intersection between behavioral/emotional disorders and investigating the impacts of child/parent distress tolerance, emotion regulation and socialization on child/teen engagement in health risk behaviors.

Delshad Shroff is a graduate student in the Clinical Science program at Virginia Tech! Broadly, her research interests include examining the development of emotion regulation and executive functioning in early childhood and its implications on the development of psychopathology. Her goal in studying this is to develop and implement evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies for children with behavioral disorders from Eastern cultures.

Lindsay Druskin is our SIG's Student President! She is a third-year Clinical Child PhD student at West Virginia University. Her interests focus on the development, evaluation, and dissemination of parenting interventions. Learn more here: https://sites.google.com/view/wvupcitlab/