Developmental Recent Graduates

(Ph.D., 2019)

Sarah is a recent graduate from USC who worked primarily with Dr. David Schwartz but also interacted frequently with JoAnn Farver. Sarah was a very productive scholar while at USC, publishing multiple papers that examined aggression, victimization, and popularity in adolescent peer groups. Her dissertation (which has now lead to two publications) explored the role of gossip and rumor spreading among popular adolescents and also identified high status victims of bullying.  Sarah is currently a NIH funded post-doctoral researcher with a research group at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). She also holds and affiliation with the INVEST Research Flagship Center/Psychology at the University of Turku.

(Ph.D., 2019)

Jackie completed her PhD in Clinical Science in 2019. She worked closely with Stan Huey (Clinical) and JoAnn Farver (Developmental) to examine the relations among parenting behaviors and mental health outcomes among adolescents in Hong Kong. She has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies at NUS in Singapore. Shortly, she will be transitioning to an Assistant Professor position in Clinical Psychology at the National Institute of Education, NTU in Singapore. Her current research broadly focuses on understanding how sociocultural contexts, such as social class, immigration, and ethnicity, influence risk and resilience in youth and their families; and on designing and evaluating interventions to improve mental health and educational outcomes. She is particularly interested in identifying factors that contribute to social disparities and developing interventions that promote equity. She has presented her work at major conferences in the United States and Europe, and has published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology and the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.