ICSES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Research Chair ( II ) and a Professor
Dr. Victoria Talwar is a Canada Research Chair (II) and a Professor at McGill University. She has been working in the area of developmental psychology for over fifteen years with an emphasis on social-cognitive development. Her research interests include children's verbal deception, children's moral development, theory-of-mind understanding and behaviour; children's expressive display rule knowledge and behaviour. In addition, she has investigated issues related to child witness testimony including child witness credibility and competence, lie detection and jury decision making. She is also interested in the influence of cross-cultural factors and attitudes to lying behaviour. Recently, her research interests include children's social interactions in cyberspace as well as the role of spirituality in children's social development.
Job Titles:
- Manager
- Psychologist
- Manager at the Access Center for Students
Dr. Bloom is a psychologist and manager at the Access Center for Students with Disabilities at Concordia University (Canada). This center is committed to promoting equal access to education and an inclusive campus community. Her key area of expertise is School-Based Mental Health.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Director of the Cornell Research Program
Prof. Whitlock is the Director of the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery. She is also a Research Scientist and the Associate Director for Teaching and Training in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research. She is the author of publications on non-suicidal self-injury in adolescence and young adulthood, social media and mental health, and in youth connectedness to schools and communities. She earned a doctorate in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University (2003), a Masters of Public Health from UNC Chapel Hill (1994), and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley (1988). Her current primary research focus includes development of early detection and intervention in mental health and wellbeing using social media and other technological affordances, particularly in the areas of self-injury and suicide. In addition to NSF funded research in these areas, she focuses on broadening understanding of non-suicidal self-injury, particularly in relation to recovery and parent experiences. She is also a Principal Investigator for an early intervention project aimed at reducing sexual violence and is pursuing a newer line of research related to sexual health and development in the digital age. She is dedicated to translating research into practice and policy through broad dissemination of user friendly materials and through development of web-based training and education programs for parents and professionals (see www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell.edu), largely as an outgrowth of her work as a practitioner in adolescent and women's health in a variety of clinical, administrative, and education-related capacities for over a decade.
Biography
Lexy recently began her new role as a postdoc, with research centred on alcohol and other drugs, mental health, and stigma. Her PhD dissertation concerned 'Stigma and NSSI' and was co-supervised by Prof. Hasking (Curtin University, Australia), Dr. Mark Boyes (Curtin University) and Prof. Lewis (University of Guelph, Canada).
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Associate Professor and Docent
Dr. Boyes is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at Curtin University and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (National Health and Medical Research Council). His research interests span health, developmental, and clinical psychology, with the overarching aim of understanding how both individual difference, as well as social and community-related variables, are related to psychological, social, educational, and health-related outcomes across the life-span. He is particularly interested in individual differences in cognitive and self-regulatory processes (such as appraisal, coping, and emotion regulation) and their potential links with emotional vulnerability. He has an ongoing collaboration with Prof. Lucie Cluver (Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford) on projects examining the psychosocial impacts of HIV/AIDS on South African children. Dr Boyes is an Academic Editor at PeerJ and an Editorial Board Member at Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. He is currently conducting research in three broad areas: 1) Mental health and well-being among children with reading and literacy difficulties; 2) Emotional experience, emotion regulation, and non-suicidal self-injury; 3) Psychosocial impacts of HIV/AIDS.
Job Titles:
- Expert
- Professor and Head of Research
Prof. Kaess is an expert in the field of risk-taking and self-harm behavior among adolescents as well as the development of borderline personality disorder. Other research interests are psychosis, internet addiction, and affective disorders. Prof. Kaess has a strong focus on early detection and intervention (including prevention) during adolescence, and is an expert on dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT-A). In his research, he aims to combine this expertise in neurobiological (i.e. neurobiology of emotion regulation and stress response) and intervention (randomized controlled trials; psychotherapy process research; prediction of treatment outcome) research to gain translational knowledge on mental disorders among youth. Aside his position as professor, he is also the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Bern.
Job Titles:
- James McGill Professor
- Professor and Associate Dean Research and Innovation
Prof. Heath is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. Her research program explores resilience and adaptive functioning in young people at-risk (children, adolescents, and young adults). She is a founding member, and past President, of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS), and the recipient of the Canadian Committee of Graduate Students in Education's 2011 Mentorship Award in recognition of her outstanding support for graduate students in education. She has published and presented extensively on topics related to mental health and resilience in educational settings, is an internationally recognized leader in the area of self-injury in educational settings and has worked in collaboration with schools for more than 20 years.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies
- Assistent Professor
Prof. Chloe Hamza is an Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She is the Director of the Coping, Affect and Resiliency in Education (CARE) Lab. Her research program is broadly focused on the development of mental health and well-being among students in a variety of educational contexts (e.g., schools, colleges, universities). She has expertise specifically in the area of self-injurious behavior (e.g., nonsuicidal self-injury, suicidal behavior), and is interested in identifying risk and protective factors for self-injury among students, as well developing best-practice recommendations to assist schools in supporting students who self-injure in educational contexts.
Job Titles:
- Senior Staff Member Mental Wellbeing
Job Titles:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow