Today’s Friday Feature is Emilie Butler!

 

Emilie Butler is a graduate student in Dr. Jeff Burke’s BADCO Lab (badco.uconn.edu). She is currently a 5th year doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Connecticut. 

 

Emilie is currently working on the UConn “Feelings in Families Study” (IRB Protocol #: H18-180) with Dr. Jeffrey Burke. The study focuses on how children cope with feelings of frustration or irritability, how children’s emotions impact parent-child relationships, and how parents experience their own emotions. More information can be found at badco.uconn.edu/projects. 

 

Emilie’s research interests include examining the efficacy of psychological interventions for children, and modifying interventions in order to be more effective for a broader range of children and families. More specifically, she is interested in examining parent and family factors, such as parental depression, stress, parenting strategies, and family functioning, which may lead to poor child treatment outcomes.

 

In her free time she loves to be with her son and introduce him to Disney movies. The troll scene from Frozen cracks him up! 

 

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