• Elle Brennan, Ph.D. – Cleveland Clinic Foundation
• Katy Darling, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Research), Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• Nicole Dempster, Ph.D. – Nationwide Children’s Hospital

• Faculty and students have access to recently renovated lab space in the department.
• Competitive, intramural student awards are available through the department’s Applied Psychology Center (APC) as well as University’s Department of Graduate Studies.
• The research labs at KSU include state of the art equipment (e.g., observational, Podcasting), software (e.g., Direct RT, Mplus), and technology for delivering interventions.
• Faculty and graduate students actively collaborate with a range of interdisciplinary professionals (e.g., physicians, psychologists, socia

Dr. Jeffrey Ciesla (Adult psychopathology) - The processes and course of depressive disorders.

Dr. Morgan Thompson - research integrates developmental psychopathology and biopsychosocial perspectives to investigate children’s socioemotional development within the family context. 

Dr. Sarah Black - Developmental psychopathology, with particular interest in risk for mood disorders during childhood and adolescence. Currently, investigating how parenting behaviors and parental psychopathology may influence the development of emotional regulation abilities during middle childhood and adolescence.  Research also considers how the normative hormonal, social, and environmental events of childhood and adolescence can be disrupted and lead to increased risk for emotional dysregulation.

Students are encouraged to become involved in undergraduate teaching. During the beginning of the 3rd year, students are enrolled in a teaching seminar and, with the supervision of a faculty member, teach one or several undergraduate courses (e.g. child psychology, social and personality development, cognitive development, adolescent psychology)

Through Years 2 to 5 in the program, students gain experience in evidence-based treatment (e.g. Coping CAT/CAT Project, Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics, Exposure with Response Prevention) and participate in a number of clinical practica, both within the department and in the community. A brief overview of these experiences is provided below:

Research training is designed to develop students into highly skilled clinical child/adolescent scientists. Graduate students are actively involved in research throughout their training. Across faculty members there is a strong track-record of extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Coursework in the Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Specialty is designed to provide students with foundational knowledge in the field of clinical psychology as well as in the areas of child development and clinical child/pediatric psychology.