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Our Team

Lab Director

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Hali Kil

Dr. Hali Kil is the director of the All Families Lab. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, and concurrently holds positions as Affiliate Investigator at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Fraser Health, and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and Professeure Associée at Université du Québec à Montréal.

 

Dr. Kil's areas of expertise are parenting, child well-being, mindfulness, and intercultural families. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Mindfulness

Graduate Research Team

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Nathan Johnson

Role:

PhD Student

Research Interests:

Mindfulness, parenting, well-being across the lifespan

Funding:

CIHR CGS Doctoral Award (2023-2026)

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Serena Shukla

Role:

MA Student

Research Interests:

Multicultural families, child resilience and coping, child psychopathology

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Jade Stobbart

Role:

MA Student (co-supervised with Grace Iarocci)

Research Interests:

Neural correlates of social behaviour, peer relationships, neurodevelopmental disorders

Undergraduate Research Team

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Ana Burik

Year & Program:

2nd year in Psychology

Research Interests:

Mindful parenting, child development, cultural diversity

Involved Lab Projects:

Understanding the parenting experience, Family Dynamics Project

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Marc Gelineau

Year & Program:

4th year in Psychology

Research Interests:

Childhood psychopathology, emotion regulation, family relationships

Involved Lab Projects:

Honour's thesis: Parenting attributions and social relationships, Understanding the parenting experience

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Amanda Hodges

Year & Program:

3rd year in Psychology

Research Interests:

Developmental disabilities, family relationships, developmental psychopathology

Involved Lab Projects:

Family Dynamics Project, Multiethnic Families Study

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Jackie Liao

Year & Program:

3rd year in Psychology and Counselling & Human Development

Research Interests:

Emotion, parenting, psychopathology

Involved Lab Projects:

Family Dynamics Project, Multiethnic Families Study

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Matthew Rathore

Year & Program:

3rd year in Psychology and Counselling & Human Development

Research Interests:

Mental health, psychopathology, cultural psychology

Involved Lab Projects:

Acculturation gap meta-analysis, Family Dynamics Project

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Ryan Smith

Year & Program:

3rd year in Psychology

Research Interests:

Parenting, emotion, attachment

Involved Lab Projects:

Acculturation gap meta-analysis, Correlates of cultural adjustment for newcomers (Project Lead)

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Andrés Sosa

Year & Program:

2nd year in Psychology

Research Interests:

Social-emotional learning, adolescent development, personality

Involved Lab Projects:

Understanding the parenting experience, Family Dynamics Project

Community Consultant Team

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Hanna Grover

Role:

Youth Consultant

Research Interests:

Adolescent development, mindfulness, family dynamics

Involved Lab Projects:

Measuring Mindfulness

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Johnny Khounviseth

Role:

Parent consultant and research contributor

Research Interests:

Cognitive performance, emotional intelligence, organizational psychology

Involved Lab Projects:

Parenting by Domains Program

Visiting Researchers

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Jiseul Sophia Ahn

Affiliation:

PhD Student, Université Laval

Groupe de recherche sur l'inadaptation psychosociale chez l'enfant

Research Interests:

Adolescent development, parenting, motivation

Involved Lab Projects:

Autonomy support discrepancies

Representative Publication

Ahn, J. S., Ratelle, C. F., Plamondon, A., Duchesne, S., & Guay, F. (2022). Testing Reciprocal Associations between Parenting and Youth’s Motivational Resources of Career Decision-Making Agency during the Postsecondary Transition. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(12), 2396-2410.

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Maryam Amjad

Affiliation:

PhD Student, Lahore College for Women University

Research Interests:

Psychopathologies, scale development

Thesis title:

Puberty challenges and psychosocial vulnerabilities in adolescent boys

Representative Publication

Shakil, M., Ashraf, F., Muazzam, A., Amjad, M., & Javed, S. (2022). Work status, death anxiety and psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemic: Implications of the terror management theory. Death studies, 46(5), 1100-1105.

Our Collaborators

Brendan Andrade, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Dillon Browne, University of Waterloo

Molly Cairncross, Simon Fraser University

Roxane de la Sablonnière, Université de Montréal

Yuthika Girme, Simon Fraser University

Joan Grusec, University of Toronto

Nigel Lou, University of Victoria

Geneviève Mageau, Université de Montréal

Janet Mah, BC Children's Hospital

Katherine Nelson-Coffey, Arizona State University

Theresa Pauly, Simon Fraser University
Jean-Michel Robichaud, Université de Moncton

Nancy Sin, University of British Columbia

Maya Yampolsky, Université Laval

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