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Research Interests. How stressful life events and adversity affect emotion regulation and executive functioning in ways that lead to depression, anxiety and suicidality during childhood and adolescence.
Interested in how stressful life events and adversity affect emotion regulation and executive functioning in ways that lead to depression, anxiety and suicidality during childhood and adolescence.
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- University of Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Lab Director
- Affiliated Faculty
- Post-Doctoral Scholar
- Graduate Students
- Fend Lab Manager
- Teen screen Study Coordinator
- Research Assistant
- Data Manager
- Undergraduate Students
- Former Graduate Students
Email: jss4@pitt.edu
Jennifer Silk is a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the development of affective disorders in adolescence, such as anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Her research focuses on the interplay between youths’ social environments and underlying neurobiological vulnerabilities. As part of this work, she has developed novel methods for assessing emotional reactivity and regulation in adolescence, including ecological momentary assessme...
Caroline Oppenheimer, Ph.D.
After earning a PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Denver in 2014, Dr. Oppenheimer moved to Pittsburgh to complete a clinical psychology internship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC. She obtained postdoctoral training through the federally funded Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research training program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine prior to joining the Department of Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Oppenheimer’s current research focuses o...
Lauren Bylsma, Ph.D.
Lauren M. Bylsma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry with a secondary appointment in Psychology. She is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She completed her PhD at the University of South Florida in 2012 and completed her internship at the VA Puget Sound in Seattle. Her research focuses on understanding emotional functioning and the course of depression using a variety of neural, psychophysiological, experiential, behavioral, and daily life measures. For her recently...
Judith Morgan, Ph.D.
Dr. Judith Morgan completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Delaware in 2010. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Jennifer Silk previously served as a consultant for her NIMH K01 award and currently serves as a mentor for her NARSAD Young Investigator Grant studying neural response to novel, social stimuli in shy and inhibited preschool age children.
Kiera James, PhD
Kiera James, PhD is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. James earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish from Swarthmore College in 2015 and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2021. She completed her clinical internship through the University of Washington School of Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her research takes a multi-modal, integrative approach to identify mechanisms underlyin...
Quyen Do, M.S.
Quyen Do is a graduate student in the clinical-developmental psychology PhD program at Pitt. Quyen graduated from Yale University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Her research interests focus on how interpersonal relationships and emotion regulation processes interact during adolescent development. She is particularly interested in using ecological momentary assessment measures in order to capture the socio-contextual environments in which adolescents develop and implement bo...
Kirsten McKone, M.S.
Kirsten McKone is a doctoral student in the clinical-developmental psychology program at the University of Pittsburgh. Kirsten graduated from Saint Olaf College in 2008 with a B.A. in music. After graduation, she worked in education reform in California before deciding to pursue a graduate degree in psychology. Her research interests include risk and resilience to psychopathology, temperament, parent-child interaction, psychophysiology, and advanced statistical methods. She is particularly in...
Emily Hutchinson, B.S.
Emily is a doctoral student in the clinical-developmental psychology program at the University of Pittsburgh. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017 with a B.S. in Psychology. Her research interests focus on how peer-related processes (i.e. rejection, social media) contribute to the development of adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Her research utilizes multimodal assessments, such as neuroimaging and ecological momentary assessment, to better understand the dynamics...
Sasha Hofman, B.S.
Sasha Hofman graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022 with a bachelor's in Psychology and a minor in History. During her undergraduate career, she served as a research assistant in the FEND Lab under Dr. Jennifer Silk and in the Kid's Thinking (KiT) Lab under Dr. Melissa Libertus. In the KiT Lab, she completed an honors thesis, which examined the impact of parental use of hand gestures in the development of early childhood spatial skills. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psy...
Alexandra Petryczenko, B.A., B.S.
Alexandra graduated from the University of Delaware in 2021, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, and a minor in Public Health. She gained two years of clinical research experience with dyadic relationships and emotion regulation strategies during her time at UD. Alex’s broad research interests focus on sex differences in anxious youth and adolescents and the neural substrates involved in these processes. She is also interested in pre...
Ken Goodrich, B.S
Ken graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2021, where they received their bachelor’s in psychology, with focuses in anthropology & philosophy of medicine. They served as an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Jeffery Cohn’s Affect Analysis Group, and currently hold a position as a certified FACS (facial action coding system) coder and research assistant. They served as the coordinator for the Teen Brain Online Study, a study examining how the teen brain responds to peer feedback...
Marcus Min, M.S.
Marcus graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master of Science in Information Science. Marcus has experience implementing complex data projects with a focus on collecting, parsing, managing, analyzing and visualizing large sets of data to turn information into insights using multiple platforms. He loves the challenge of dealing with data on a daily basis and understands how to apply technologies to solve data related problems and to develop innovative data solutions.
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Dana Rosen, Ph.D.
Dana Rosen is a post-doctoral scholar at Alpert Brown Medical School. Here, she does a mixture of clinical and research work. Specifically, she is working in the Adult Partial Hospitalization Program where they treat adults with a range of presenting mental health concerns using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach.
Stefanie Sequeira, M.S.
Stefanie is a graduate student in the clinical-developmental psychology PhD program at Pitt. Stefanie graduated from the University of Maryland in 2014 with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience. Her research interests focus on how peer relationships interact with brain development in adolescence and contribute to the development and maintenance of social anxiety. She is particularly interested in the role that peer rejection and susceptibility to peer influence play in social deve...
Rosalind Butterfield, PhD.
Rosalind Butterfield is a graduate student in the clinical-developmental psychology PhD program at Pitt. Rosalind graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism & Mass Communications & Psychology. Generally, her research addresses child emotion regulation and brain development. She utilizes neuroimaging and laboratory observation methods to assess the influences of parenting on neural function in typical and atypical development in children and adol...
Melanie Grad-Freilich. 4417 Sennott Square, 210 S. Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 | +1 (617) 999-9942 | melanie.grad@pitt.edu. EDUCATION. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA PhD Student, Clinical-Developmental Psychology Joint Program. August 2022 – Present.
I graduated from Yale University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a concentration in Neuroscience. My work at Yale with Dr. BJ Casey and subsequently at Harvard University with Dr. Leah Somerville have helped me develop my recruitment, data collection and data analysis skills and have cemented my interest in using quantitativ...
