Northern Illinois University
Families and Development in Context Lab
Department of Psychology

Research Interests

My research interests include the development and maintenance of internalizing psychopathology in adolescents and emerging adults. Specifically, I am interested in how family relationships and functioning, especially parenting factors, contribute to anxiety disorders in adolescents and emerging adults.

Clinical Interests

I look forward to working with families, children, adolescents and emerging adults.

Publications

Caradec, J., Pittman, L., and Kochanova, K. (In progress). Transactional associations between coparenting, parent anxiety, and parenting behaviors.

Presentations

Caradec, J., Zolinski, S., Lahey, K., and Pittman, L. (2020, March 19-21). Parenting and anxiety among ethnic minority adolescents: Associations through ethnic identity. Poster accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA. (Conference cancelled).

Zolinski, S., Caradec, J., Lahey, K., and Pittman, L. (2020, March 19-21). Late adolescents’ strategies to cope with discrimination: Associations with ethnic-racial socialization. Poster accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA. (Conference cancelled).

McNeela, L. M., Pittman, L. D., Caradec, J., Pabis, J. M., and Zolinski, S. (March 19-21, 2020) Coparenting and adolescent psychological symptoms: A transactional analysis among families with sixth graders. Symposium accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA. (Conference canceled).