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Pictured (From Left): Noor Qasmieh, Bridget Makol, Dr. Andres De Los Reyes, Dr. Sarah Racz and Lauren Keeley
Melanie Arenson
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Melanie is a fourth year student in the clinical psychology program at UMD. She graduated with a B.S. in Psychology from Northeastern University in 2015, where she worked in a variety of research settings, including laboratories, the Department of Corrections, and a PICU. After graduating, Melanie worked as a research coordinator at the San Francisco VA, looking at the relationship between PTSD and cardiovascular health in Veterans. Her research interests revolve around understanding the aftereffects of trauma, including the development of later psychopathology (PTSD, depression, suicide, and substance use) as well as posttraumatic growth and resilience.
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Lauren Keeley
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Lauren is a second year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program working with Dr. Andres De Los Reyes in the Comprehensive Assessment and Intervention Program (CAIP). She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015 with a BS in Psychology and in 2016 with a Masters in Clinical Psychological Science. At the University of Maryland, College Park, she worked with Dr. Andres De Los Reyes examining multi-informant reports for social anxiety in adolescents and examining how stress affects family relationships. Her research interests include parenting, family functioning, and how parental monitoring can affect the development of internalizing disorders in children and adolescents.
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Noor Qasmieh
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I am a second year student in the clinical psychology program. I graduated from the University of Maryland in 2016, with a B.S. in Psychology and a Minor in Neuroscience. As an undergraduate, I completed an honor thesis with Dr. De Los Reyes regarding the psychometric properties of a safety seeking behaviors measure when administered to parents and adolescents. Following graduation, I was the lab coordinator for Dr. Jonathan Beier's Lab for Early Social Cognition, where I assisted in both behavioral and eye tracking studies examining how children develop key social behaviors, including helping, resource allocation, and dominance recognition. I was also the chief participant recruiter for the Infant and Child Studies consortium, where I specialized in developing relationships with local communities and effectively communicating to families about child development research. My research interests include the intersection between physiological processes and the experience of social anxiety and the development of novel assessment tools that capitalize on multi-modality.
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