Youth Outcomes of Therapy Lab

The Youth Outcomes of Therapy Lab is a clinical psychology research lab at York University in Toronto, Canada. Our overarching goal is to improve psychotherapy outcomes for children and adolescents with depression and/or anxiety by identifying those aspects of therapy that are most effective, and by developing new therapies to address factors that currently predict poor treatment outcomes. We also study treatment outcome measures and develop ways to make them more clinically relevant.

Research Funding

Lab News

Welcome, Master's Students!

Welcome, Honours Thesis Students!

Accepting a Master's Student

The first two Master's students have joined the lab. They will be working at York and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, focused on the Texting with Caregivers project, and the Emotion Regulation as a Mechanism of Therapy project.

Dr. Aitken will most likely be accepting a Master's student in the Clinical Developmental Psychology program for the upcoming academic year. For more information, please see the program website.

Two students in the Psychology Specialized Honours program have joined the lab. Their thesis projects will focus on youth perceptions of mental health treatments and limitations of behavioural sleep treatments for young people.