Core Faculty
Program Affiliation :
1. Child Study and Education (CSE)
2. Counselling Psychology (CP)
3. Developmental Psychology and Education (DPE)
4. School and Clinical Child Psychology (SCCP)
| Name | Areas of Research |
| Mary-Lousie Arnold (DPE) | Socio-moral development in childhood and adolescence; moral reasoning; values acquisition in family and school contexts; identity formation; ethical dimensions of schooling; teacher-student relations. |
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Mary Caravias |
Psycho-Educational Clinic Co-Director 416.978.0624 m.caravias@utoronto.ca |
| Becky Chen-Bumgardner (DPE) | Bilingual/ESL and Chinese children's literacy development; cross-cultural and cross-linguistic studies of literacy. |
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Charles Chen (CP) |
Vocational and career psychology; life/career development issues; meaning making and human agency in worklife; career theories and counselling approaches. |
| Carl Corter (CSE & DPE) | Early childhood programs, practice, and policy; integrated Services for children; Kindergarten education; parenting; parent involvement in schools; teacher education. |
| Joseph Ducharme (SCCP & DPE) | Non-intrusive and developmentally sensitive prevention and treatment approaches for child psychopathologies; proactive classroom management. |
| Michel Ferrari (DPE) | Development of academic excellence; teaching for wisdom; conceptual change; evolution and theory of mind and consciousness; personal identity and self-awareness. |
| Patricia Ganea (CSE & DPE) | Cognitive development; symbolic development; word learning; picture books; pragmatics and social cognition. |
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Esther Geva, AP&HD Chair (SCCP & DPE) |
Cognitive & linguistic processes in normally achieving and in learning disabled children; reading processes in first and second language; cross-cultural psychology; at-risk ESL children. |
| Joseph R. Gillis (CP) | Sexual orientation and gender identity diversity; HIV issues; issues of hate crime and victimization. |
| Abby L. Goldstein (CP) | Addictive behaviours; substance use and co-occuring risk behaviours; child maltreatment and substance use. |
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Eunice Jang (DPE)
Jennifer Jenkins, Atkinson Chair (DPE) |
Educational assessment and measurement issues; fairness and equity issues in testing, achievement gaps among students from diverse backgrounds, and using diagnostic feedback for teaching and learning. Dr. Jang is also keen on epistemological issues surrounding human inquiry approaches in social sciences and education. Social and emotional development; family interaction; child psychopathology. |
| Steven Katz (DPE) | Teacher education, evidence-informed decision-making, networked learning communities, classroom assessment, teacher belief. Coordinator of 'Psychological Foundations of Learning & Development' for the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program. |
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Kang Lee (DPE, CSE) |
Lying in children and adults; face processing. |
| Rhonda Martinussen (CSE) | Reading and writing difficulties; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; working memory and executive functions; adaptive instruction; teacher knowledge and practice relating to children with special education needs. |
| Hazel McBride (DPE) | Special Education, Learning Disabilities, Adolescent Suicide, the Adolescent Brain, Neuroscience and Education. |
| Roy Moodley (CP) | Critical multicultural counselling and psychotherapy; race, culture and psychotherapy; integrating traditional healers and healing into counselling and psychotherapy |
| Elizabeth Morley | Principal, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Lab School |
| Joan Moss (CSE) | Cognitive development and teacher and student's mathematics learning. |
| Charles Pascal | Policy and higher education; leadership, organizational development and higher education and public administration. |
| Janette Pelletier (CSE) | Early child development, education and policy, early literacy and cognitive development, parent involvement, family literacy, early writing, children’s drawings, French immersion. |
| Michal Perlman (DPE) | Environmental factors that influence the social development of preschool-aged children; cognitive and emotional school readiness; the impact of neighbourhoods on children; family law. |
| Joan Peskin (DPE) | Theory of mind; text processing; Cognitive development and learning; symbolic thinking in literary interpretation. |
| Michele Peterson- Badali (SCCP) |
Youth justice policy and practice; young offenders; children's rights; competence in legal and medical domains; informed consent |
| Niva Piran (CP) | Women's mental health; body image development; the relationship between body and culture; eating disorders. |
| Margaret Schneider, Associate Chair (CP) | Sexual orientation and gender; professional ethics; studies on the human-animal bond. |
| Katreena Scott (SCCP) | Child maltreatment; domestic violence; development and evaluation of intervention programs for men who are abusive in their intimate relationships or in their relationships with their children. |
| Judy Silver (CP) |
Psycho-Educational Clinic Co-Director. 416.978.0623 judy.silver@utoronto.ca |
| Lana Stermac (CP) | Impact of sexually coercive bahaviour on Women's education; sexual violence and trauma; post-traumatic mental health. |
| Suzanne Stewart (CP) | Indigenous healing in education, counselling and psychotherapy. |
| Rosemary Tannock (DPE) | Brain and behaviour research, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),cognitive mechanisms, learning, mental health problems |
| Richard Volpe |
Human development; self-concept; social cognition; family relations; school/community interface; evaluation research; qualitative methods; intentional child abuse and unintentional injury prevention |
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Jeanne Watson (CP)
Judy Wiener (SCCP) |
Theory and practice of person-centered and experiential psychotherapy including emotion focused therapy, psychotherapy process and outcome. Understanding peer relations and social adjustment of children and adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD; social and affective impacts of inclusion; beliefs of children and adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD. |
| Dale Willows (CSE) |
Basic processes in reading; reading/writing disabilities; classroom reading/writing instruction; assessment and remediation approaches to written language difficulties; teacher development in literacy education. |
| Earl Woodruff (DPE) | Cognition and learning; sociocognitive knowledge building; technology in education; |