Our Team
Lab Director
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
Nathan Johnson
Role:
PhD Student
Research Interests:
Mindfulness, parenting, well-being across the lifespan
Funding:
CIHR CGS Doctoral Award (2023-2026)
Serena Shukla
Role:
MA Student
Research Interests:
Multicultural families, child resilience and coping, child psychopathology
Jade Stobbart
Role:
MA Student (co-supervised with Grace Iarocci)
Research Interests:
Neural correlates of social behaviour, peer relationships, neurodevelopmental disorders
Undergraduate Research Team
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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.
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