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Psychology Department (0436)
109 Williams Hall
Blacksburg VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-6581
Fax: 540-231-3652
Email: psycinfo@vt.edu
Kristin E Canavera
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Graduate Student Psychology Department

Graduate Clinician Child Study Center

canavera@vt.edu


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Kristin graduated from Furman University. As an undergraduate, she was awarded a neuroscience fellow award at the Medical University of South Carolina where she studied psychopharmacology and alcohol withdrawal. Kristin went on to study the neuropsychology of childhood obsessions and compulsions in a graduate program at Bucknell University. She was then afforded the opportunity to work with some of the leading experts in anxiety at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. Kristin also has diverse experiences, including volunteering on an adolescent Somali refugee research project, working on programs for survivors of torture and the victims of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, studying in China, and working with victims of domestic violence.

Background

  • 2005-2007 Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, MA
  • 2003-2005 M.S., Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  • 1998-2002 B.S., Furman University, Greenville, SC

Research/Professional Interests

  • Childhood anxiety disorders, with a focus on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Post-traumatic stress
  • Panic disorder
  • Cultural issues in mental health

Publications

Canavera, K. E., Suarez, L., Wilkins, K., Pincus, D., & Ehrenreich, J. (2007). Obsessive-compulsive disorder and trauma: Thematic overlap and treatment implications. Depression and Anxiety, 24(4), 278-279.
Evans, D. W., Canavera, K., Kleinpeter, L. F., Maccubbin, E., & Taga, K. (2005). The fears, phobias, and anxieties of children with autism spectrum disorders and Down syndrome: Comparisons with developmentally and chronologically age matched children.. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 36 (1), 1-24.
Canavera, K. E., Wilkins, K. C., Pincus, D. B., & Ehrenreich, J. T. (in press). Parent-child agreement in the assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.