coe-staff: Colloquium 11/26 - SPSY Mental Health Promotion Faculty Candidate

[Laura Lee McIntyre]

Please see the upcoming colloquium and try to attend!


Dr. Goevanna Rodriguez will be presenting her Colloquium titled "Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder" at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, November 26th in HEDCO 230T.


Dr. Rodriguez Bio
Dr. Geovanna Rodriguez received her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of California, Riverside. She completed a predoctoral APA accredited school-based internship with the Illinois School Psychology Internship Consortium (ISPIC), providing comprehensive social-emotional support services for students with and without disabilities in the greater Chicagoland area. Dr. Rodriguez is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Waisman Center NIH-funded T32 Postdoctoral Program on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research is dedicated to understanding determinants and consequences of social-emotional and behavioral functioning in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. More specifically, her work is aimed at identifying the early emergence and trajectory of emotional and behavioral problems in youth with ASD, determining their impact on school functioning and identifying relevant service system and family processes that promote resilience.

Colloquium Abstract
Recent research on the prevalence of mental health disorders in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests 40-80% of individuals on the spectrum will meet criteria for at least one mental health disorder in their lifetime. Dr. Rodriguez's research aims to understand the early emergence of emotional and behavioral problems across early childhood and adolescence that may contribute to the later onset of mental health conditions in this population. In her work, Dr. Rodriguez considers specific behavioral domains of child functioning that may affect family processes and children's social experiences within a school setting. In this talk, she will present research from three studies examining how internalizing and externalizing behavior problems shape and are shaped by specific family processes (i.e., parenting stress) and school experiences (i.e., social functioning, bullying) over time. She will discuss implications for the role of system level influences that may contribute to the rate, shape, and timing of mental health conditions in children and adolescents with ASD.

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