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Applied Psychology and Human Development

Charles P. Chen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Career theories and counselling approaches
  • Counsellor education and training
  • Life-career integration and development
  • Meaning making and human agency in worklife
  • Morita therapy and Morita-philosophy-based career counselling intervention
  • Postmodern and humanistic inquires in counselling and career psychology
  • Vocational and career psychology broadly defined

Office: (416) 978-0718
Email: cp.chen@utoronto.ca

Chloe Hamza

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Early identification of students at risk for self-injury in schools
  • Mental wellbeing

Office: 416-978-1059
Languages: English
Website
Email: chloe.hamza@utoronto.ca
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Earl Woodruff

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cogntive Work Analysis
  • Collaboration Training
  • Gamification
  • Innovation and collaboration facilitation
  • Innovation Trainiing
  • Learning and Training Audits
  • Mobile Technologies and E-Learning
  • Problem Solving Training
  • Socio-cogitive facilitation
  • Software Training
  • Think Aloud Analysis

Office: 416-934-4511
Home: 416-848-1748
Mobile: 416-848-1748
Website
Email: earl.woodruff@utoronto.ca
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Esther Geva

Professor

Esther Geva

Areas of Expertise

  • Acculturation
  • Assessment of immigrant children
  • At-risk ESL children
  • Cognitive and linguistic processes
  • Cross-cultural issues among immigrant children
  • Cross-cultural issues among second language learners
  • Psychological problems in children/youth

Office: (416) 978-0916
Languages: Hebrew, French
Email: esther.geva@utoronto.ca
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Eunice Eunhee Jang

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive diagnostic assessment
  • Language assessment
  • Mixed methods research
  • Program evaluation

Office: (416) 978-0238
Website
Email: eun.jang@utoronto.ca
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Feng Ji

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Data sciences
  • Machine learning applications in social and behavioral sciences
  • Psychometrics
  • Quantitative methods in social and behavioral sciences

Office: 416-978-6752
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: f.ji@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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J. Roy Gillis

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Violence and bullying

Office: (416) 978-0679
Email: roy.gillis@utoronto.ca
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Janette Pelletier

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Early child development and education
  • Early literacy development
  • Full-day kindergarten
  • Integrated early years services (child care/kindergarten/parenting support)
  • Kindergarten/early learning programs (English and French immersion)
  • Parent involvement in early education
  • Right to play
  • Teacher beliefs and practices

Office: 416-934-4506
Home: 416-972-9931
Mobile: 416-972-9931
Email: janette.pelletier@utoronto.ca
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Jeanne Watson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Emotional expression
  • Emotionally focused psychotherapy
  • Empathy in psychotherapy
  • Experiential psychotherapy
  • Psychotherapy process and outcome
  • The therapeutic relationship

Office: 416-978-0705
Languages: English
Website
Email: jeanne.watson@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Ansloos

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Decolonization
  • Indigenous curriculum
  • Structural violence and trauma

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
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Jennifer Jenkins

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Children's mental health
  • Family conflict and divorce
  • Parenting
  • Sibling relationships

Office: 416-978-0939
Languages: English
Website
Email: jenny.jenkins@utoronto.ca
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Kang Lee

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Face processing in infants, children, and adults
  • Lying & cheating in children and adults

Office: (647) 606-6849
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: kang.lee@utoronto.ca
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Katreena Scott

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Dating violence
  • Domestic violence
  • Gender-based violence
  • Treatment of offenders

Office: 416-978-0971
Email: kscott@oise.utoronto.ca
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Keith Oatley

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive science
  • Emotion
  • Psychology of fiction

Office: 416-961-7969
Home: 416-961-7969
Email: keith.oatley@utoronto.ca
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Lana Stermac

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Counselling psychology
  • Posttraumatic mental health
  • Psychological trauma and related clinical interventions
  • Sexual victimization

Office: 416-978-0722
Website
Email: l.stermac@utoronto.ca
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Margaret Schneider

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Human-animal interaction/ Companion animals and mental health
  • Major areas of research and teaching,
  • Professional ethics
  • Sexual orientation and gender

Office: 416-978-0684
Email: margaret.schneider@utoronto.ca

Michal Perlman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Child care
  • Early childhood education and care
  • Sibling conflict

Office: 416-978-0596
Languages: Hebrew
Website
Email: michal.perlman@utoronto.ca
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Michele Peterson-Badali

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Children's rights
  • Youth justice

Office: 416-978-0937
Home: 416-485-4684
Mobile: 416-485-4684
Languages: English
Website
Email: m.petersonbadali@utoronto.ca
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Roy Moodley

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture
  • Ethnicity
  • Multicultural counselling
  • Psychotherapy and counselling
  • Race

Office: 416-978-0721
Home: 416-481-9462
Website
Email: roy.moodley@utoronto.ca
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Todd Cunningham

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Assistive technology
  • Learning disabilities
  • Literacy development
  • Mental health of youth and adolescents
  • Readjusting to in-person environment
  • Remote-learning option
  • School psychology
  • Students’ mental health
  • Support for students with disabilities

Office: (647) 542-3433
Email: todd.cunningham@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
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Zachary Hawes

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • How can we better leverage research in numerical and spatial cognition to inform the teaching and learning of early years mathematics?
  • How can we create the most optimal teacher professional learning experiences?
  • How do attitudes towards mathematics (e.g., math anxiety) influence performance in mathematics? How can we foster positive attitudes towards mathematics?
  • What are the cognitive and neural underpinnings of mathematical thought?
  • What role does spatial visualization play in mathematics learning and performance?

Office: N/A
Website
Email: zack.hawes@utoronto.ca