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

Royal College of Psychiatrists Conference

Welcome, Master's Students!

Welcome, Honours Thesis Students!

Dr. Aitken attended the Royal College of Psychiatrists congress in Edinburgh where she presented with colleagues on novel treatments for youth depression.

Three 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.

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.