Skip to main content
Skip to main menu Skip to spotlight region Skip to secondary region Skip to UGA region Skip to Tertiary region Skip to Quaternary region Skip to unit footer

Slideshow

Catie Sappenfield

Education:

B.A., Psychology & Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests:

My research interests center around adolescent and young adult suicide prevention, especially after stressful life experiences such as inpatient hospitalization.

Selected Publications:

Prinzing, M.M., Sappenfield, C.A., & Fredrickson, B.L. (2023). What makes me matter? Investigating how and why people feel significant. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 995 - 1011.

Amanda Perozo Garcia

Amanda is a first year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Georgia. She completed a B.A. in Psychological Sciences at Rice University. Currently, she is a member of the FUERTE Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Thania Galvan.

Francisco X. Pelaez Rovalo

Clinical Psychology Graduate Student
Education:

B.S., University of Georgia 2022

Selected Publications:

Hale, M. E., Ravalo, F., Allen, I., Galagos, D. J., & Suveg, C. (Under review at Developmental Review). Friends’ Behavioral and Biological Synchrony in Relation to Youth Adjustment: A Systematic Review.

Kate Lindig

 Kate Lindig is a first-year student in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences program. She is a member of the UGA Infant Lab and is working under the mentorship of Dr. Janet Frick. She is interested in parental caregiving behaviors, such as sensitivity, and their links with developmental outcomes in infants and young children. Additionally, she is interested in finding valid physiological measures for constructs (e.g., emotional regulation) in infants and children that have traditionally relied entirely on parental report. 

Education:

B.S., Psychology, Texas Christian University (2023)

Somin Kim

Education:

B.A., JCL & Psychology, Yonsei University, 2020

M.A., Clinical Psychology, Seoul National University, 2022

Support us

We appreciate your financial support. Your gift is important to us and helps support critical opportunities for students and faculty alike, including lectures, travel support, and any number of educational events that augment the classroom experience. Click here to learn more about giving.

Every dollar given has a direct impact upon our students and faculty.