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Meet Our Lab Members!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"PortraitKathleen Duncan MSc., MA <\/strong>is a fourth-year graduate student in the child emphasis track of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Maine. She enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Maine in 2023 and is a research investigator within Dr. Cynthia Erdley’s Peer Relations and Adjustment Lab. She is currently the Principle Investigator on the ongoing studies for her projects investigating the Social Network Measurement Development, Utility, and Validity<\/em>. Her research focuses on more precisely measuring and understanding the health impacts of the quantity and diversity of social connections in young adults. Her ongoing research project seeks to develop a molar measure counting the number of social contacts college students have over the course of one week. Clinically, she is currently working at the Psychological Service Center at University of Maine, delivering evidence-based treatments to the community members in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Depression clinic. She is also serving as a clinician within the PIER program at Maine Health delivering individual psychotherapy for young people experiencing early and first episodes of psychosis. She also assists in providing group cognitive enhancement therapy, leading computer tasks aimed at improving executive functioning, facilitating group social skill building sessions, and holding weekly coaching sessions. She assists in the administration of a multifamily group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to joining the University of Maine, she assisted in carrying out a collaborative NIH R01 5-year longitudinal study on stress in families with Huntington’s Disease with Vanderbilt’s Neurology Department at Vanderbilt’s Stress and Coping Lab, under Dr. Bruce Compas. She earned her MSc. in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice in 2022 at University of College London in conjunction with the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. There, she worked within the NHS’s Whittington Health Trust at Simmons House, a Tier-4 Adolescent Psychiatric In-Patient Unit and within the Anna Freud Centre at a telehealth mental health service, The School Support Service, to deliver evidence based treatments to young people and their families. Her Master’s dissertation was on Experiences of PTSD in British Muslim Youth. She also worked at the Lau lab, now at Queen Mary University, to investigate current treatment methodologies for child laborers. She earned her B.A. at Harvard University where she also worked at the Langer Lab on Mindfulness. Her research interests center on examining leveraging social connections and community engagement to improve intervention effectiveness, accuracy, and inclusivity for young people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kathleen Duncan CV<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact Kathleen at: Kathleen.Duncan@Maine.Edu<\/p>\n

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Daniella Gelman, M.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n

is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Dr. Cynthia Erdley\u2019s lab.\u00a0She enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Maine in 2022 and is a research investigator within Dr. Cynthia Erdley\u2019s Peer Relations and Adjustment Lab. Her research interests\u00a0focus on examining the interplay between intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation in close friendships and its relationship to mental health functioning. Her dissertation aims to examine under which conditions the use of interpersonal emotion regulation, in general and within close friendships, is adaptive or maladaptive to psychological functioning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniella<\/span>\u00a0holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology and Human Development from the University at Albany \u2013 State University of New York, and a master\u2019s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maine.\u00a0During her time at UAlbany,\u00a0Daniella<\/span>\u00a0was involved in several labs, including the Child Clinical and Developmental Lab and the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD).\u00a0Prior to joining the University of Maine,\u00a0Daniella<\/span>\u00a0held a research assistant position at the Adolescent Partial Hospital Program (APHP) at Bradley Hospital\/Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clinically,\u00a0Daniella<\/span>\u00a0completed a variety of clinical training experiences across school, outpatient, and medical settings. Currently,\u00a0Daniella<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>a clinical extern at the Boston Child Study Center, where she provides supervised direct patient care to youth and their families. She specializes in early childhood services, including Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and treating youth with selective mutism (SM).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Daniella’s CV<\/a><\/p>\n

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Contact Daniella at: Daniella.Gelman@Maine.Edu<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dagny<\/span>\u00a0(DJ) Seaver<\/strong> is a senior in the undergraduate program at the University of Maine, majoring in Psychology with a concentration in abnormal\/social, and a minor in both sociology and music.<\/div>\n
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Grace Berry\u00a0<\/strong>is a senior in the undergraduate program at the University of Maine, majoring in both Psychology with a concentration in abnormal\/social and Child Development and Family Relationships.<\/div>\n
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