Lindsay Downs Evans
Graduate Student
Research Area: Clinical Science
My research focuses on the effects of stressful family environments on children’s cognitive functioning and how this may contribute to the onset and maintenance of mood disorders in high-risk offspring. Cognitive skills such as executive functions provide a foundation from which children can effectively select and utilize appropriate and successful regulation and coping strategies. Such skills provide a promising target for intervening to disrupt the development of maladaptive regulation strategies in children at risk for mood disorders. I hope to better understand how these and other factors affect child adjustment through investigation of fundamental cognitive processes in children at risk for the development of mood disorders.
Representative Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Garber, J. & Downs, L.E. (2010). Prevention of depression in youth: Sex differences in effects. Strauman, T.J., Costanza, P.R., & Garber, J. (Eds.), Preventing Depression among Adolescent Girls. New York: Guilford Press.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Evans, L.D., & Garber, J., McCauley, E., Diamond, G. & Schloredt, K. (2011, June). Longitudinal Relations between Stress and Depression: Coping as a Mediator. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Chicago, IL.
Downs, L., & Garber, J. (2010, November). Sex Differences in the Effects of Depression Prevention Programs. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, San Francisco, CA.
Downs, L., & Garber, J., McCauley, E., Diamond, G. & Schloredt, K. (2009, November). Changes in children’s coping in offspring of depressed and nondepressed parents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, New York, NY.
Sharrock, C., Frankel, S., Downs, L. & Gallerani, K. (2009, November). Observed nonverbal affect and behaviors in depressed and nondepressed parents and their children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Washington, D.C.
Downs, L., Brenneman, K., Gelman, R., Massey, C., & Nayfeld, I. (2009, April). Developing classroom experiences to support preschoolers’ knowledge of living things. Symposium presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Denver, CO.
Brenneman, K., Gelman, R., Massey, C., Nayfeld, I. & Downs, L. (2007). Preschool pathways to science: Fostering and assessing scientific reasoning in preschoolers. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society’s Fifth Biennial Meeting 13th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Santa Fe, N.M.