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.
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Honours Thesis Poster Day
Honours Thesis Poster Day
Our Honours Thesis students participated in the Department of Psychology poster day. Riya Nair used a creative repeated measures design to examine how South Asian youth view both standard and culturally adapted cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and showed that their views depend on how strongly they identify with South Asian culture.
Using data from a large sample of clinic-referred youth, we found that a simple method of integrating information from parent, teacher, and youth informants performed as well as more sophisticated latent variable models.
Our Honours Thesis students participated in the Department of Psychology poster day. Shyamali Banga examined how parent emotional distress is related to the intensity, variability, and diversity of children's negative emotions. Her results showed that children are generally functioning well in daily negative affect, though gender diverse children experience more intense and variable negative emotion.
