Letter from the Editor
Staff Articles
- Teacher-Student Conflict and Student Aggression in Kindergarten
- Factors Influencing Academic Motivation in Asian American Adolescents
- Ethnic Identification of Asian American Urban Youth: The Role of Generational Status in Predicting Psychological Well-Being
- The Impact of Childhood Adversity on Later Anxiety
- Children’s Implicit Theories of Intelligence: Attributions, Goals, and Reactions to Challenges
- Music and Leisure: The Use of Music in its Physical, Social, and Cognitive Modalities for Alzheimer’s Intervention
- Korean American Language Ability: Cultural Identification and Willingness to Sacrifice
- Selective Mutism: Motivation within Varying Treatment Approaches
- American Muslim Youth Identity
- A Cultural Examination of the Predictive Relation Between Latino Parental Engagement and Children’s School Readiness
- The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Anxiety and Aggression
- Classroom Emotional Support, Behaviors, and Achievement in Kindergarten and First Grade: An Ecological Approach
- Teacher-Student Conflict and Student Aggression in Kindergarten
- American Muslim Youth Identity
- A Cultural Examination of the Predictive Relation Between Latino Parental Engagement and Children’s School Readiness
Elisa Angevin
eca254@nyu.edu
Elisa Angevin is a senior in the Applied Psychology program, graduating in May. She will begin her Masters of Science in Clinical Social Work at Columbia University next year. Her interests are in utilizing acting within therapeutic approaches, specifically with the Autism Spectrum Disorder. She is an intern at Child Mind Institute, an organization that gives outpatient psychological care to children with Selective Mutism, as well as Daytime Moon Creations, a non-profit that gives acting classes to adolescents with disabilities.
Rania Mustafa
rdm332@nyu.edu
Rania Mustafa is a Muslim girl who was born and raised in New Jersey. Growing up as an American Muslim she has found herself living on the hyphen trying to integrate both worlds into one. She was always involved with social activism and community betterment and change. She has helped found and launch the Inspiring American Muslim Youth Think Tank in which the daily issues of American Muslims are explored, researched, and studied in hopes of providing services to aid the community. She has finished her Honor’s thesis in which she analyzed whether religious participation and discrimination play a role in the formation of an integrated American Muslim identity in youth and how that in turn can affect their motivation to engage in social action. She is also part of Dr. Shabnam Javdani’s research team in which she is aiding the launch of a new study exploring the mental disorders associated with troubled youth, specifically those with prior involvement in the juvenile justice system. She aspires to be a community psychologist to serve as a social activist who will address the social problems and ills of society and work from within the community to implement intervention programs and find sustainable solutions.
Amanda Rohr
acr385@nyu.edu
Amanda Rohr is a senior, as well as an Honors student, in the Applied Psychology program. She is currently a member of Dr. Melzi’s research team, which focuses on the the factors that influence Latino children’s school readiness skills; specifically language and literacy. Her honors thesis explored the relation between parental self-efficacy, engagement, and children’s school readiness skills. In particular, her honors thesis and Dr. Melzi’s research team are interested in the preschool years, and Amanda loves volunteering weekly at a Head Start Center in Harlem. Additionally some of her other research interests are from the Positive Psychology field, such as awe, gratitude, excellence, and post-traumatic growth. Post-graduation Amanda has plans for a research assistant position in Costa Rica for an ocean conservation organization, that helps endangered sea turtles. Afterwards, she would like to travel and apply to graduate schools.
Prairna Sethi
pks250@nyu.edu
Prairna Sethi is a senior in the Applied Psychology program at NYU. She has spent her undergraduate career obtaining research experience through internship placements at The Child and Family Policy Center on the Common Metric Project and at the Institute for Human Development and Social Change on the Opportunities for Equitable Access to Quality Basic Education team. After graduation, she intends to pursue a graduate degree in school psychology, with the goal of becoming a school psychologist.