Assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of North Texas.
I want to improve how we understand and assess mental illness.
I earned my Ph.D in clinical psychology with a minor in quantitative psychology from the University of Notre Dame. I spent my internship and postdoctoral years doing research and clinical assessment as part of the Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services project at Brown University, and I recently joined the psychology faculty at the University of North Texas. I am also an active member of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) consortium.
The overarching aim of my research is to bring clinical psychological science into closer alignment with how individuals develop and experience mental health problems. I do this through work on psychological assessment and quantitative dimensional models of psychopathology, which results in the identification of empirically supported research and treatment targets and the development of psychometrically sound and clinically useful measures.
I enjoy opportunities to bring this approach to my collaborations with researchers in other areas, including mentorship of trainees.
Some Current and Upcoming Projects
Integrating
different analytic approaches to modeling the hierarchical structure of psychopathology
Investigating
more inclusive and equitable approaches to modeling and measuring mental health problems in individuals with minoritized/marginalized identities
Clarifying
optimal methods for establishing severity ranges and cutpoints for symptom scales and identifying meaningful change in response to treatment