Projects
SAIL is currently running several research studies. Some topics we're focused on include mental health apps, parent and child interactions, anxiety during major life changes, and stress in family relationships.
Childbirth Anxiety
Research study focusing on the development of anxious thoughts during first-time mother's pregnancies.
Mindful Parenting
Parenting advice can often seen complicated, confusing, and contradictory. Our study aims to provide provide parents with an opportunity to practice simple evidence-based steps to improve their parenting practices and strengthen relationships with their children.
Training Helpful Interpretations in Kids
Gaining access to quality mental health interventions can be challenging for many youth and their families. The goal of the THINK program is provide individuals with a mental health app that can be used anytime and anyplace to promote positive thinking styles.
Completed Projects
Differences in Depressive Trajectories
Research project focused on identifying patterns of informant discrepancies with respect to youth depressive symptoms reported during life transitions.
Bullying & Depression Risk Study
Secondary analysis which identified teenagers relative depression risk, as well as protective and vulnerability factors, across varying levels of bullying behavior.
Brief Cognitive Bias Modification for Social Anxiety
Examining the effects of a single session interpretation bias modification program on alleviating state anxiety amongst socially anxious individuals.
Intervention Subgroup Interactions of the Incredible Years Classroom Management Program
Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Model Trees show the ability to detect meaningful partitions to characterize the intervention effect of the IT TCM program.
ABCT 2025 Student Research
Tess Horan presenting her thesis research, "Examining the Association Between
Covid-19, Intimate Partner Violence, and Mental Health Outcomes During Pregnancy"
Alex Koshy presenting his thesis research, "Digital Media Use in Adolescents: Latent Profiles of Use and Predictors"
Maria Ahmed presenting lab research on clinician awareness of culturally-bound informant discrepancies in family therapy contexts.
Yara Charif and Adaeze Alozie presenting lab research on a Thematic Analysis of Nulliparous Women's Childbirth Anxiety