Faculty Advisor
Contact Information
Email
Lab Website
615-322-6613
311 Hobbs
Research Area
Education
M.S., Clinical Psychology, 2011, Vanderbilt University
B.A., Psychology, 2009, Vanderbilt University, Summa Cum Laude
Societies
Psi Chi
American Psychological Association
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Society for Research in Child Development
Society for Reseach in Adolescence
Kelly Haker Watson
Graduate Student
Research Area: Clinical Science
coping, emotion regulation, stress, socialization, temperament, executive function, parent-child interaction, parental depression
My research is generally focused on identifying factors that contribute to the development of individual differences in how children and adolescents regulate their emotions and cope with stress.
Representative Publications
Journal Articles
Watson, K.H., Potts, J.E., Hardcastle, E., Forehand, R., & Compas, B.E. (2012). Gender differences in internalizing and externalizing symptoms in children of mothers with a history of depression. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 21(4), 657-666.
Watson, K.H., Dunbar, J.P., Reising, M.M., Hudson, K., Forehand, R., & Compas, B.E. (2012). Parenting and children’s coping: Cross-sectional and prospective relations in families with parental depression. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Reising, M.M., Watson, K.H., Hardcastle, E.J., Merchant, M.J., Roberts, L., Forehand. R., & Compas, B.E. (in press). Parental depression and economic disadvantage: The role of parenting in associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 22, 335-343.
Andreotti, C., Thigpen, J., Dunn, M.J., Watson, K.H., Potts, J., Reising, M.M., Robinson, K.E., Rodriguez, E.M., Roubinov, D., Luecken, L., Compas, B.E. (in press). Cognitive Reappraisal and Secondary Control Coping: Associations with Working Memory, Positive and Negative Affect, and Symptoms of Anxiety/Depression. Journal of Anxiety, Stress, and Coping.
Dunbar, J.P., McKee, L., Rakow, A., Watson, K.H., Forehand, R., & Compas, B.E. (in press). Coping, negative cognitive style and depressive symptoms in children of depressed parents. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Compas, B.E., Forehand, R., Thigpen, J.C., Keller, G., Hardcastle, E.J., Cole, D.A., Potts, J., Haker, K., Rakow, A., Colletti, C., Reeslund, K., Fear, J., Garai, E., McKee, L., Merchant, M.J., & Roberts, L. (2011). Family group cognitive-behavioral preventive intervention for families of depressed parents: 18- and 24-month outcomes. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology.
Rakow, A., Forehand, R., Haker, K., McKee, L. G., Champion, J. E., Potts, J., Hardcastle, E., Roberts, L., & Compas, B. E. (2011). Use of parental guilt induction among depressed parents. Journal of Family Psychology, 25(1), 147-151.
Parent, J., Garai, E., Forehand, R., Roland, E., Potts, J., Haker, K., Champion, J.E. & Compas, B.E. (2010). Parent mindfulness and child outcome: The roles of parent depressive symptoms and parenting. Mindfulness, 1(4), 254-264
Colletti, C., Forehand, R., Garai, E., McKee, L., Potts, J., Haker, K., Champion, J., & Compas, B.E. (2010). Associations of parent-child anxious and depressive symptoms when a caregiver has a history of depression. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 19, 762-770.
McKee, L. G., Parent, J., Forehand, R., Rakow, A., Watson, K. H., Dunbar, J. P., Reising, M.M., Hardcastle, E. & Compas, B. E. (in press). Reducing youth internalizing symptoms: Effects of a preventive intervention on parental guilt induction and youth cognitive style. Development and Psychopathology.
Book Chapters
Compas, B.E., Watson, K.H., Reising, M., & Dunbar, J. (in press). Stress and Coping: Transdiagnostic Processes in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. In J. Ehrenreich-May & B. Chu (Eds.), Transdiagnostic Mechanisms and Treatment Approaches of Youth Psychopathology. Guilford Publications.
Conference Presentations
Dunbar, J.E.P., Watson, K.H., Reising, M.M., Craig, C.R., Hardcastle, E.J., & Compas, B.E. (2013, April). Think as I Say, Not as I Think: Adolescent and Maternal Negative Cognitive Style, Maternal Communication, and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.
Watson, K.H., Thigpen, J.C., Potts, J.E., Forehand, R., & Compas, B.E. (2012, March). Observed Parenting and Child Coping: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Relations in Families with a History of Parental Depression, Society for Research in Adolescence, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
McKee, L.G., Rakow, A., Haker, K., Potts, J., Forehand, R., & Compas, B.E. (2011, April). Effects of a Preventive Intervention on Parental Guilt Induction and Offspring Internalizing Symptoms, the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Conference Posters
Watson, K.H., Dunbar, J.E.P., Simon, H.F., Hardcastle, E.J., & Compas, B.E. (2013, April). Socialization of Coping: Correlates of Maternal Coping Coaching in Families With and Without a History of Depression. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.
Haker, K., Garai, E., Roberts, L., Fear, J., Potts, J., Colletti, C., Forehand, R., & Compas, B.E. (2011, April). Parenting and Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Patterns of Symptom-Specific Risk in Offspring of Depressed Parents. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Haker, K., Potts, J., Garai, E., Forehand, R., & Compas, B.E. (2010 November). Amplification vs. Equalization: Gender Differences in Internalizing Vs. Externalizing Symptoms in Offspring of Depressed Mothers. Poster session presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.