Projects & Presentations

Szkody, E.  & McKinney, C. (2019, February). The impact of interpersonal skills on parent-child relationship quality for individuals with...

Steele, E. H., Szkody, E.,  & McKinney, C. (2019, November). Coping is not enough: The indirect effort of financial stress on mental...

Parents continue to have an impact on their children's live well into adulthood. The ways that parents communicate support to their...

Social support is not always perceived as supportive. Specifically, I focused on understanding the developmental and contextual factors...

During graduate school, I led survey-based studies that examined how parental socialization, gender roles, and family dynamics were...

Pursuing a graduate degree in health services can be a stressful experience. Many clinical psychology doctoral students experience...

Prior literature holds no clear definition of “intrusive thoughts”. Magee and colleagues stated that they are, “Unwanted, distressing,...

Beginning in 2022, I have been hard at work with the Lab for Scalable Mental Health helping to develop, evaluate, and implement single...

Social support has been shown to positively influence mental health and social outcomes. However, contextual factors such as cultural...

LGBTQ+ youth report higher rates of mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, suicidality) in comparison to their peers, which...

NURTURE is a single session intervention designed to help improve youth attachment with their parents, friends, and significant others....