McGill Applied Psychology Conference
Conference Schedule
Introduction & Keynote Address
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Virtual Room: "Keynote & Workshop"
Dr. Thombs will describe how the manner in which many studies are conducted and reported wastes resources and misleads patients, health care providers, and policy makers who depend on research evidence. He will also discuss ways that we can contribute to ensuring that better evidence is available to support more effective and more accessible mental health care.
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15 a.m.
Virtual Room: "Lobby"
Join other participants in the lobby to chat and have coffee/tea.
Oral Presentations
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Virtual Rooms: "Oral Presentations 1" & "Oral Presentations 2"
Session 1 (Virtual Room: "Oral Presentations 1")
1. Social anxiety and injunctive norms predict undergraduate risky drinking
Presenter: Katherine Séguin
2. Familiarity aids recognition: Assessing familiar and unfamiliar brands in the eyes of the consumer
Presenter: Amanda Cabugao
3. Sources of perceived injustice in work-disabled individuals with musculoskeletal pain
Presenter: Gabrielle Gagnon
4. Pathways to depression in women and girls: Understanding neural correlates of intergenerational transmission of major depressive disorder and the role of early-onset maternal depression
Presenter: Grace Alllison
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Session 2 (Virtual Room: "Oral Presentations 2")
1. A not so perfect plan: An examination of the differential influence of multidimensional perfectionism on missed and gained events during the COVID-19 pandemic
Presenter: Giovanni Andrade
2. Examining post-concert rumination in Western classically trained musicians
Presenter: Caroline Holden
3. Best practices for Imam-clinician collaboration
Presenter: Mawdah Albatnuni
4. Thematic analysis of available social support systems in schools for LGBTQIA+ youth: A scoping review
Presenter: Enoch Leung
Lunch Break
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Virtual Room: "Lobby"
Join other participants in the lobby to chat and/or have lunch.
Clinical Workshop
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Virtual Room: "Keynote & Workshop"
Cognitive therapy (CT) has received empirical support for the treatment of an acute depressive episode. CT is comparable to behaviour therapy, other bona fide psychological treatments and antidepressant medication, with each treatment yielding superior results than placebo control conditions. Dr. Dozois will provide a workshop on cognitive therapy for the treatment of unipolar major depression, outlining the cognitive model of depression and describing various CT methods used to treat this disorder.
Coffee Break
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Virtual Room: "Lobby"
Join other participants in the lobby to chat and have coffee/tea.
Poster Presentations
3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Virtual Room: "Poster Presentations"
1. Beyond awareness: The development of a new mindful eating questionnaire
Presenter: Nellie Siemers
2. Research proposal: Intervention investigating four-year-old children’s asking and answering of long-distance WH-questions
Presenter: Jovia Wong
3. The interactive effects of family and friendship features on global self-worth in preadolescence
Presenter: Mihaela Zlatanovska
4. The power of emotional support: How teachers can help in the fight against cyberbullying
Presenter: Kennedy Critch
5. Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep spindles on memory performance
Presenter: Maya Mergui
6. Examining the correlation between parental mindset about intelligence and their failure feedback
Presenter: Sarah Kalaouze
7. Downtime getting teens down: The impact of social media and technology use on adolescents’ mental health
Presenter: Giulia Riondino
8. Perceived growth mindsets and adolescents’ executive functions: An exploratory study
Presenter: Anna-Francesca Boatswain-Jacques
9. Raising Trilingual Toddlers: Families Attitudes and Language Strategies
Presenter: Natasha Hadeed
10. Effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on depression and alexithymia in women applying for a divorce
Presenter: Nadia Khalili
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Poster Presentations (cont.)
3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Virtual Room: "Poster Presentations"
11. Self-perceptions and perceptions of others on Instagram
Presenter: Molly Staley
12. Body compassion partially mediates the association between internalized weight bias and exercise avoidance
Presenter: Amanda Gossack
13. The effect of perfectionism on the experience of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
Presenter: Glory Chima
14. Constraints on Goal Pursuit: Is It Better to Give Up?
Presenter: Selina Di Nitto
15. Examining the associations and interactive effects of maternal and child temperament on dyadic co-regulation
Presenter: Olivia Lazimbat
16. Validating the French version of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool for Families of Children Diagnosed with Cancer – Part one of a two parts study
Presenter: Émilie Trudel
17. Associations between trait mindfulness with negative affect and physical symptoms during pregnancy
Presenter: Malka Hershon
18. The development of growth and fixed intelligence mindsets in children
Presenter: Sabrina Gallant-Monette
19. Are introverted teens turning into hermits?
Presenter: Khetsia Mondésir
20. Exploring the relationship between coping behaviours and perceived well-being among First Nations students
Presenter: Jessica Lai
Coffee Break
5:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Virtual Room: "Lobby"
Join other participants in the lobby to chat and have coffee/tea.
Closing Remarks
5:15 - 5:20 p.m.
Virtual Room: "Keynote & Workshop"
Join us in closing the McGill Applied Psychology Conference.
You can consult the abstract booklet, which contains all abstracts to be presented at the conference, by clicking on the link below.