School and Applied Child Psychology Academics
Explore our academics in School and Applied Child Psychology and their areas of research expertise
![Gabrielle Wilcox](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2024-04/gabrielle-wilcox.jpg?itok=UfawAbxu)
Gabrielle Wilcox - SACP Chair
- Intellectual disabilities
- Stress and stress control
- Developmental wellness and resiliency
- Reading and writing assessment and intervention
- Psycho-educational assessment
![Jac Andrews](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-06/jac-andrews.jpeg?itok=T-OsVH1b)
Jac Andrews
- Collaborative and expanding role of school psychologists
- Developmental psychopathology
- Diversity
- Educating exceptional children
- Educational psychology
![Emma Climie](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-04/Emma-Climie.jpg?itok=NbvoVrH3)
Emma Climie
- Developmental psychopathology: AD/HD and disruptive disorders of childhood
- Resilience
- Developmental wellness and resiliency
- School-based prevention programs
- Treatment of childhood disorders
![Michelle Drefs](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-02/michelle-drefs_1.jpg?itok=DFnkgHp6)
Michelle Drefs
- Early childhood education
- Intergenerational studies
- Bereavement
- Interprofessional practice
- Early mathematics development
![Erica Makarenko](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-06/erica-makarenko.jpeg?itok=mlNhunuw)
Erica Makarenko
- Developmental psychopathology
- Educating exceptional children
- Educational psychology
- Psycho-educational assessment
- Cognitive developmental psychology
![Adam McCrimmon](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/AdamMcCrimmon.jpg?itok=bYLMNldy)
Adam McCrimmon - Director of Practicums
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Collaborative, school-based research
- Developmental wellness and resiliency
- Educating exceptional children
- Educational psychology
![Carly McMorris](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/CarlyMcMorris.jpg?itok=7Slpw8yf)
Carly McMorris - Director of Internships
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Child and youth mental health
- Child development
- Risk and protective factors
- Developmental psychopathology
![David Nordstokke](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/DavidNordstokke.jpg?itok=NXFbhWAd)
David Nordstokke
- Educational and psychological measurement
- Validity theory and test validation
- Applied statistical methods
- Statistical simulation
- Resilience
![Meadow Schroeder](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-09/meadow-schroeder.jpeg?itok=LocdbGRo)
Meadow Schroeder - Graduate Program Director
- Developmental wellness and resiliency
- Post-secondary student learning and development
- Psychological assessment and diagnosis
- Student experience in higher education
![Kelly Dean Schwartz](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-06/Kelly-Schwartz.jpeg?itok=3XqCUK24)
Kelly Dean Schwartz - Director of Training
- Adolescent development
- Child development
- International community development
- Family psychology
- Social development