2024 Events
Webinar:
"Securing the NSF GRFP for clinical psych: A conversation with Fellows"
Join the ABCT Student SIG on Saturday July 20, 2024 at 2PM ET for a FREE and VIRTUAL webinar on applying to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Our speakers are incoming/current clinical psychology PhD students who have been awarded this prestigious fellowship. This is your opportunity to learn how to craft a winning application. See below for information about our wonderful speakers and how to register. This webinar will include a moderated discussion among Fellows and a Q&A session for audience questions.
Speakers:
Lauryn Hoard
George Washington University
NSF Project: Examining the effects of online vicarious racism on loneliness and social contact among Black college students: The role of racial identity Lauryn Hoard is a second-year clinical psychology doctoral student at George Washington University. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Spelman College, where she developed a strong foundation in Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on examining the effects of offline and online racial discrimination, as well as protective factors in Black Americans. She has submitted and presented work at the Society for Research on Adolescence, American Psychological Association, The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and more. Outside of her academic work, Lauryn creates content for @asoulsticecollective, an Instagram platform aimed at decolonizing higher level psychology and making resources more accessible for minority students. In her free time, she also enjoys running and reading.
Arielle Smith
Northwestern University
NSF Project: Characterizing the Heterogeneous Impacts of Social Media Activities on Adolescent Affective Wellbeing and the Mediating Role of Self-Determination Needs Arielle Smith (she/her) is an incoming Clinical Psychology PhD student at Northwestern University in the Lab for Scalable Mental Health. She graduated with a BA in Psychological & Brain Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis and then worked as a research coordinator in the Lab for Scalable Mental Health for two years. Arielle's primary research goal is to increase the accessibility of care for body image and eating concerns among young people through brief interventions and implementation science.
Seungju Kim
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
NSF Project: Beyond the White Narrative: Understanding Parental Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Asian American Communities Seungju Kim is an incoming clinical psychology Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois. He is broadly engaged in research involving communities of faith, color, and sexual/gender minorities. His current research is particularly interested in modeling (1) religiousness's influence on mental health for SGM/LGBTQ+ communities, (2) intersectional stigma and mental health, and (3) religious prejudice and empathy toward SGM/LGBTQ+ communities using SEM, GLM, and psychometrics. Seungju is an avid proponent of R, open science, and making statistics more accessible.
2023 Events
Webinar:
"Securing the NSF GRFP for clinical psych: A conversation with Fellows"
Join the ABCT Student SIG on July 28, 2023 at 11am ET for a webinar on applying to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Our speakers are incoming/current clinical psychology PhD students who have been awarded this prestigious fellowship. This is your opportunity to learn how to craft a winning application! See below for information about our wonderful speakers! This webinar will include a moderated discussion among Fellows and a Q&A session for audience questions.
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Yuri-Grace Ohashi Harvard University NSF Project: Investigating the influence of stressor controllability on emotion regulation strategy use and effectiveness during adolescence Yuri-Grace is an incoming Clinical Science PhD student at Harvard University. She will be working jointly with Drs. Matthew Nock and Katie McLaughlin to explore how social and affective factors influence stress susceptibility to confer risk and resilience for psychopathology during adolescence. More specifically, she aims to investigate how contextual factors like stressor chronicity and controllability influence the way individuals engage in regulatory affective processing, and how subsequent within-person changes in cognition inform mental health outcomes including depression and suicidality. Outside of research, Yuri-Grace enjoys dancing, cooking, painting, and exploring outdoors!
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Mahogany Monette University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NSF Project: Ambulatory Assessment of Racial Discrimination and Schizotypy among Black College Students Mahogany Monette is a fourth-year Clinical Psychology doctoral student at IUPUI. Her current area of study included understanding the role of risk (e.g., racial trauma and trauma) and resilience factors (e.g., religiosity and racial identity) for Black Americans with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Her long-term goals are to develop more effective assessments and interventions for African Americans with psychosis to improve their quality of life. Mahogany's current research focuses on looking at risk and resilience factors for Black adults' experiences of schizotypy using survey data from college students across numerous universities in the United States as well as qualitative data from adults experiencing psychosis. She is interested in using ambulatory assessment and focus groups to understand experiences of racial trauma among Black Americans.
Eduardo Hernandez Mozo San Diego State University/UC San Diego NSF Project: The Role of Minority Stress on Telomere Length among a Diverse Sample of Sexual Minority Men Eduardo Hernandez Mozo (He/Him) is an incoming first year doctoral student at the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral program in Clinical Psychology. He graduated May 2023 from SDSU with a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology and Psychology. His research interests are broadly examining psychosocial and sociocultural determinants of physical (e.g., cardiovascular disease, diabetes) and mental health (e.g., depression, substance use) among Latino and LGBT+ populations. After graduating, he hopes to become a professor developing culturally-tailored interventions for chronic health conditions among these populations.
Rebecca Mendoza George Mason University NSF Project: Cortisol Reactivity to weight stigmatizing events in Latina women: The role of acculturative stress adolescence Rebecca is an incoming graduate student in clinical psychology at George Mason University. She is interested in studying sociocultural factors that influence disordered eating and body image disturbance, particularly in minority groups underrepresented in eating disorder research. She is passionate about supporting the career goals of student researchers and encouraging diversity in the field of psychology.