Affiliated Graduate Students

Mario Aceves, M.A.
Stephanie Cardoos
Her current research interests are child and adolescent psychopathology, peer influence, risk and resilience, and the development of effective intervention strategies for children and their families. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2008.
Jenna Gelfand
Her research interests include measures of executive functioning in young children, the link between disruptions in executive functions and social deficits, and treatments for neuropsychological deficits. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2007.
B. Tate Guelzow, M.A.
His research and clinical interests include mental health issues in underserved populations, child and adolescent externalizing disorders, stigmatization of mental illness, and adolescent mental health. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2005.
Fred Loya, M.A.
His current clinical interest include child and adolescent mental health, and his research focuses on the stigmatization of mental illness, with an emphasis on implicit measures of stigma. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2005.
Andres Martinez, M.A.
As a graduate student in the social-personality area, he is conducting research on aspects of mental illness stigma with professors Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Stephen P. Hinshaw. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2006.
Meghan Miller, M.A.
Meghan's interests center on distinguishing neuropsychologically impaired subtypes of neurodevelopmental disorders (autism, ADHD) and how these deficits relate to functional impairments, particularly in girls. She is also interested in understanding the role of motivation in ameliorating neuropsychological deficits in these populations. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2007.
Andrea Stier, M.A.
Andrea earned her Masters from Dartmouth College. Her clinical interests include psychodynamic approaches to treatment, child and adolescent psychopathology, family systems, and emotion-focused therapies. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2004.
Erika Swanson, M.A.
Erika's research interests focus broadly on self-concept in ADHD. Since children with ADHD often experience failure in multiple domains, it is important to better understand the impact of repeated failure on their belief systems and long-term outcomes. In addition, she is interested in exploring the nature, function, and mechanisms underlying the positive illusory bias, which is the tendency for children with ADHD to unexpectedly provide extremely positive reports of their own competence in comparison to a criterion (e.g., teacher evaluations, actual achievement scores) reflecting actual competence. Her clinical work focuses on children, teens and families and she has received training in child-centered play therapy, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and dialectical behavioral therapy. Graduate student at U.C. Berkeley since 2006.
Maya VanPutten, M.A.
Her areas of interest in school psychology include ADHD, learning disabilities, and depression in children. Graduate student at UC Berkeley since 2005.
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