Clinical Psychology

Meghan McAuliffe

		Graduate Student  -  Primary Advisor: Julie A. Hubbard Research Interests   meghanmc@udel.edu Office: 165 McKinly Hall (302) 831-0355 Preferred contact method - email

Research Interests

Children's peer relations

Research Summary:

I am a sixth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program mentored by Dr. Julie Hubbard. During my time at UD, I have had the opportunity to work on several research projects including the development and evaluation of a school-based intervention for reactive aggression and the piloting of a lab-based procedure assessing reactive and proactive aggression.

My dissertation examined the mediating roles of teacher cognitions about children and teacher behavior toward children in the link between children’s behavior and their peers’ evaluations of liking and disliking.   In order to examine my hypotheses, I performed naturalistic classroom observations of teacher behavior toward children in several second-grade classrooms, as well as collected teacher and peer report data.

I am currently a predoctoral intern at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. During graduate school, I received clinical training as a practicum student at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Terry Children’s Psychiatric Center, the Silver Lake Consortium, and the Psychological Services Training Center at the University of Delaware.

Recent Publications

Morrow, M. T., Hubbard, J. A., McAuliffe, M. D., & Rubin, R. M. (in press). The relation between childhood aggression and depressive symptoms: The unique and joint mediating roles of peer rejection and peer victimization. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.

McAuliffe, M. D., Hubbard, J. A., Rubin, R. M., Morrow, M. T., & Dearing, K. F. (2006). Reactive and proactive aggression: Stability of constructs and relations to correlates. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 167(4), 365-382.

Hubbard, J. A., McAuliffe, M. D., Rubin, R. M., & Morrow, M. T. (2006).  Understanding and treating anger and aggression in children.  In T. Cavell and K. Malcolm (Eds.), Anger, aggression, and interventions for interpersonal violence.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Morrow, M. T., Hubbard, J. A., McAuliffe, M. D., Rubin, R. M., & Dearing, K. F. (2006).  Childhood aggression, depression, and peer popularity: The mediational model revisited.  International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30(3), 240-248.

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