Jessy is currently working toward her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on how mothers' experiences of adversity and subsequent parenting behaviors influence parent-child relationships. Her research focuses on how maternal adversity, parent-child relationships, and parenting influence child mental health and social-emotional development. She has completed her M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology.
Experience
2017–2018
Graduate Research Assistant, Determinants of Child Development Lab, University of Calgary
2014–2017
Research Assistant, Child Attachment and Emotions Lab, Kent State University
2014–2017
Research Assistant, Emotions, Stress, and Relationships Lab, Kent State University
2015–2015
Research Assistant, Child Development in Latino Families Lab, Kent State University
2015–2015
Research Intern, Emotions, Stress, and Relationships Lab, Kent State University
Education
2020
Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, Student Trainee Award
2018
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Student Trainee Award
2017
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Student Trainee Award
2016
Kent State University, Bachelor of Science in Psychological Sciences (Honours)
Publications
2020
The prevalence of sexting among emerging adults: A meta-analysis., Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49, 1103-1119.
2020
Child and adolescent mental illness during COVID-19: A rapid review., Psychiatry Research, 292, e113307.
2020
Prevalence of posttraumatic and general psychological stress during COVID-19: A rapid review and meta-analysis., Psychiatry Research, 292, e113347.
2020
Validation of the AMBIANCE-Brief: An observational screening instrument for disrupted caregiving., Infant Mental Health Journal, 41, 299-312.
2019
Parent-child attachment and children’s affective experiences and regulation of emotion: A meta-analytic review. , Emotion, 19(6), 1103-1126.
2019
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, attachment style, and mental health: Pathways of transmission to child behavior problems., Child Abuse & Neglect, 93, 27-37.
2018
A meta-analysis of maternal prenatal depression and anxiety on child socio-emotional development. , Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57(9), 645-657.
2016
Children's emotion understanding and mother-child attachment: A meta-analysis., Emotion, 16(8), 1102-1106.