FEATURING
Dr. Yuanyuan Jiang, Assistant Professor, School of Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Spirituality, Saint Paul University, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta.
TITLE
Promoting child mental well-being and effective parent-teacher support
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ABSTRACT
This talk will describe a program of research aimed at promoting child mental well-being and effective parent-teacher support. A series of studies will be presented examining how attention, behaviour, and cognitions relate to each other for families and youth with challenges with inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity. The important role of cognitions, in particular self-efficacy and attributions, will be highlighted. Such research has the ultimate goal of improving psychological assessments and interventions for families, classrooms, and youth.
BIO
Dr. Yuanyuan Jiang is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta and an Assistant Professor in Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Spirituality in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Saint Paul University. She is a Registered Clinical Psychologist, and Director of the Attention, Behaviour, and Compassion (ABC) Lab. Dr. Jiang completed her predoctoral and postdoctoral Clinical Psychology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Science in the Psychology Research Specialist program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Jiang’s research focusses on clinical assessment, clinical interventions, mental health, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
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