The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School will be holding a Research Festival on Monday, November 21 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm in the McCune Conference Room, HSSB, UC Santa Barbara. The festival is free and open to the public. Thirteen students will be presenting their cutting-edge research during the symposium event. In order to receive their Master’s degree, all 2nd year CCSP students submit a research festival proposal in the spring. As 3rd year students, they present their findings to the department.
The presenters’ research spans relevant topics such as school readiness, autism, LGBT issues, and more. All students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students in CCSP are required to attend.
8:30 am Breakfast
8:45 am Kelly Edyburn • The Construct of School Readiness in Early Childhood: Exploring Measurement Invariance of the Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile Across Developmental Groups
9:00 am Ari Goldstein • Stop, Collaborate and Breath: Measuring the Effects of a School-Based Mindfulness Intervention, A Pilot Study
9:15 am Sruthi Swami • Latent Profile Analysis of High School Students’ Motivation to Read and the Differing Effects of Gender
9:30 am Kathryn Moffa • Exploring the Contributions of School Belonging to Complete Mental Health Screening
9:45 am Taylor Damiani • Change Makers: Development and Pilot Evaluation of a Purpose-Centered, Service Learning Program
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Amy Barrett • Social Responsiveness Gains and Predictors of Outcome Associated with Social Pivotal Response Treatment for Toddlers with ASD: Results of an Ongoing RCT
10:30 am Josh Selzer • Exploring the Impact of an After-School Music Program with Underserved Children
10:45 am Sabrina Liu • Self-Affirmation Following Exposure to Mass Violence: A Pilot Study of an Online Intervention
11:00 am Ana Romero • Mixed Status Siblings: The Impact of Immigration Status on the Sibling Relationship
11:15 am Break
11:30 am Jordan Ko • Evaluating Changes in Dynamic Social Interaction Skills Following a Randomized Controlled Trial of the START Socialization Intervention for Adolescents with ASD
11:45 am Krishna Kary • Exposure, Sources, and Strategies for Rejecting Anti-LGBT Messages
12:00 pm Erin Engstrom • Improving Amount of Detail and On-Topic Question Asking in Adults with ASD using a Visual Framework and Self-Management
12:15 pm Daniel Meza • Chicana/o/x Identity and the Perceived Psychological Benefits among Undergraduate Students
The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology is accredited by the American Psychological Association for the Ph.D. in the areas of counseling, clinical, and school psychology. In addition, the School Psychology specialization offers a pupil personnel services credential, en route to a Ph.D., that is approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing and the National Association of School Psychologists. The CCSP Department adheres to a scientist-practitioner training model. Primary emphasis is placed on developing knowledge and skills that inform applied psychology research and practice. Graduates enter academic and other leadership roles in professional psychology