*Dr. Rawana is not accepting a graduate student for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Dr. Rawana is one of over 80 faculty members in the Graduate Program in Psychology and is a member of the Clinical Developmental area. Faculty in this area are all registered psychologists and most are active clinically, providing supervision, consultation, program evaluation and outcome research in various community settings, in addition to conducting collaborative grant-supported research.
Graduate students are expected to obtain core competencies in the scope of practice of clinical psychology as applied to children and adolescents in addition to obtaining rigorous research training. This includes coursework and practical training in psychological assessment and diagnosis of children and adolescents as well as a variety of evidence based modalities of child, adolescent and/or family intervention. The most recent Clinical Developmental Handbook can be found here.
Dr. Rawana’s current research interests focus on emotion regulation using a clinical-developmental lens. We aim to understand the intrapersonal emotion regulation strategies that young people use to regulate their emotions by themselves as well as interpersonally with others. We look at how emotion regulation relates to an individual’s mental health, well-being, mattering, student success, and relationships, including first generation youth (e.g., first in their families to attend post-secondary education in Canada) and those with experiences in child welfare.
Graduate students in the Clinical Developmental program also have training opportunities in the newly opened York University Psychology Clinic, a state-of-the art community mental health and training centre associated with the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Health at York University. The clinic provides a range of leading edge, effective mental health services to keep people of all ages living healthy, productive lives. Dr. Rawana's role in the YUPC involves providing child and adolescent psychological services with a focus on internalizing symptoms, as well as training and supervising graduate students in the Clinical Developmental Program at York. More information on can be found at the YUPC website.
Dr. Rawana is looking to collaborate with incoming graduate students who bring advanced research skills, including working with large survey designs (e.g., undertaking secondary data analysis), advanced statistical techniques (such as MLM, SEM), robust methods (e.g., ecological momentary assessment and interventions) and analyzing developmental trajectories. She is also looking for graduate students who have experiences developing and implementing brief interventions (e.g., to support emotion regulation), including for first-generation students. She welcomes students from diverse backgrounds and abilities who bring unique lenses to their research and clinical work. She also enjoys working with students who foster an inclusive and team-oriented environment that supports the growth and development of all members of her lab, including undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows. Potential graduate students can contact Dr. Rawana with their CV, research interests, a writing sample and an unofficial transcript at rawana@yorku.ca. More information can be found at the York Psychology Graduate Website.
