 | Judith Wiener phone: (416) 978-0935 email: jwiener@oise.utoronto.ca Department: Applied Psychology and Human Development | |
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Academic History PhD – University of Michigan, Combined Program in Education and Psychology, 1979 M.Ed. - University of Alberta, Department of Educational Psychology, 1971 BA Honours Psychology, McGill University, 1969 Registered Psychologist, Province of Ontario, 1979 Research Overview Dr. Wiener's current research involves an exploration of several aspects of the social and emotional adjustment of children and adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD. Her work addresses the following questions: •How do children and youth with ADHD understand their problem behaviours and disorder? •Do adolescents with ADHD have low self-esteem and negative perceptions of their academic, social, and behavioural competence? •Are children and youth with ADHD bullies or victims of bullying? How does being a bully or victim impact their self-perceptions and their mental health? •Do children and youth with ADHD and LD have close, stable, high quality friendships and in the case of adolescents, romantic relationships? •Do children and youth with ADHD have difficulties with social perspective taking (understanding the perspective of the people they interact with and using this understanding to solve social problems) and do these difficulties impact their friendships, romantic relationships, and whether they are perpetrators or victims of peer bullying? •What factors contribute to parenting stress in parents of children and youth with ADHD? How do parents cope with that stress? •Do adolescents with ADHD have more conflict with their parents than other adolescents? If so, what factors contribute to that conflict? •What involvement do parents of children and adolescents with ADHD have with regard to the education of their children and how does that involvement impact academic outcomes? •Will a mindfulness cognitive behaviour therapy treatment for youth with ADHD and their parents lead to a reduction in parent-teen conflict, parenting stress, and better behavioural and academic outcomes in youth? See www.adhdld.com for more details Teaching Overview Dr. Wiener's specialty courses include: HDP1220: Introduction to School and Clinical Child Psychology HDP1285: Psychology & Education of Children with Learning Disabilities. HDP5284: Assessment and Intervention in Multicultural/Bilingual Contexts Special Topics Course on Peer and Family Relationships of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities. Professional Activities Current: President - International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities www.iarld.com Editorial Board for Journal of Learning Disabilities, Exceptional Children, Canadian Journal of School Psychology, Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment Clinical supervision in the OISE/University of Toronto Counselling and Psychoeducational Clinic Private practice doing psychoeducational assessments Research Committee and consultant for Integra Foundation, a children’s mental health centre for children with learning disabilities and mental health needs Previous: School Psychologist in school districts in Quebec and Ontario for 6 years Representative Publications Wiener, J. & Timmermanis, V. (in press) Social relationships of children and youth with learning disabilities: The 4th R. In B. Y.L. Wong and D. L. Butler (Eds). Learning about Learning Disabilities. Elsevier. Wiener, J., Malone, M., Varma, A., Markel, C., Tannock, R., & Humphries, T. (2012). Children’s Perceptions of their ADHD Symptoms: Positive Illusions, Attributions, and Stigma. Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 27(3), 201-217 Wiener, J. & Costaris, L. (2012). Teaching Psychological Report Writing: Content and Process. Canadian Journal of School Psychology. Theule, J., Wiener, J., Jenkins, J. & Tannock, R. (in press). Parenting stress in families of children with ADHD: A meta-analysis. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. DOI: 10.1177/1063426610387433.
Rogers, M., Wiener, J. Marton, I. & Tannock, R. (2009) Academic parental involvement in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of School Psychology, 47, 167-185. Motivations for Cyber Bullying: A Longitudinal and Multi-Perspective Inquiry. (With F. Mishna – PI, W. Craig, T. Beran, & D. Pepler. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) $203,000 Peer and family relationships of adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (With Maria Rogers). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) $115,000. NOTE: This proposal was ranked 1/123 by SSHRC Committee 28 (Educational Psychology). Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Intervention for Youth with ADHD and their Parents SSHRC Sig Award. $3000 (with Joe Ducharme) A pilot study examining the effects of graphic organizers on the listening and reading comprehension of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. (With Rhonda Martinussen – PI, and John Kirby) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), $130,000. Honours and Awards Fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities Learning Disabilities Association of Canada Award for Excellence in Research in Learning Disabilities Psychology (including Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy, Health Psychology, Mental Health) |
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