Prospective Graduate Student Applicants:
It is unclear at this point whether Dr. Luebbe will be reviewing applications for students matriculating in the 2025-2026 school year. Please check back in October 2024.
Individuals who are interested in emotion functioning (especially positive emotion processes) across cultures are encouraged to apply. Note, a lot of the work in the FRAM lab is moving into understanding multiple systems in the experience, expression, and regulation of positive emotions, especially within a cross-cultural framework. Students with identities from typically underrepresented groups in clinical psychology are also especially encouraged to apply.
It is unclear at this point whether Dr. Luebbe will be reviewing applications for students matriculating in the 2025-2026 school year. Please check back in October 2024.
Individuals who are interested in emotion functioning (especially positive emotion processes) across cultures are encouraged to apply. Note, a lot of the work in the FRAM lab is moving into understanding multiple systems in the experience, expression, and regulation of positive emotions, especially within a cross-cultural framework. Students with identities from typically underrepresented groups in clinical psychology are also especially encouraged to apply.
Current Students
Valerie Scelsa
I am currently on internship at the Rochester Institute of Technology. My primary research interest includes the role of emotion dysregulation, specifically of discrete emotions (e.g., anger, sadness), in the development and maintenance of psychopathology, especially depression, among children and adolescents. Additional research interests include the socialization of emotion regulation and the utilization of person-centered statistical analyses, such as Latent Profile Analysis (LPA).
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Price, N. N., Scelsa, V. L., Zeman, J. L., & Luebbe, A. M. (in press). Profiles of adolescents’ sadness, anger, and worry regulation: Characterization and relations with psychopathology. Emotion.
Ogbaselase, F. A., Scelsa, V. L., Stoppelbein, L., Becker, S. P., Fite, P. J., Greening, L., & Luebbe, A. M. (in press). Psychometric properties of the children’s emotion management scales within a psychiatric sample. Psychological Assessment.
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Price, N. N., Scelsa, V. L., Zeman, J. L., & Luebbe, A. M. (in press). Profiles of adolescents’ sadness, anger, and worry regulation: Characterization and relations with psychopathology. Emotion.
Ogbaselase, F. A., Scelsa, V. L., Stoppelbein, L., Becker, S. P., Fite, P. J., Greening, L., & Luebbe, A. M. (in press). Psychometric properties of the children’s emotion management scales within a psychiatric sample. Psychological Assessment.
Sam Wick
I am a fourth-year student in Miami University's Clinical Psychology doctoral program. My primary research interest includes factors influencing the temporal experience (i.e., anticipation, reactivity, persistence) of positive affect in youth with depression. Additionally, I study parental socialization of positive emotion and parent characteristics that impact parent choices about socialization (e.g., goals for their child's happiness, beliefs about positive emotions). I am especially interested in how parental positive emotion socialization impacts adolescent depressive symptoms within and across cultural contexts.
Noelle Marousis
I am a third-year student in Miami's Clinical program. My research interests include investigating child characteristics that impact the effect of parent emotion socialization on child emotion regulation, and how this relationship then relates to etiology and maintenance of anxiety and depression. I hope to examine these factors within an early adolescent population and include participation of multiple caregivers and family members in the home.
Madi Beedon
I am a third-year student in Miami’s Clinical program. My research interests focus broadly on how positive affect regulation is related to adolescent depression and how parents socialize positive emotions in adolescents. I am especially interested in conducting this research across cultural and situational contexts to improve our understanding of when positive affect regulation strategies can be (mal)adaptive in the context of adolescent depression.
Jigeesha Ghosh
I am a second-year student in Miami University's Clinical Psychology doctoral program. My research interests lie at the intersection of interpersonal relationships, positive affect (PA), and youth's development of depression. Currently, some of my specific interests include investigating dyadic emotional processes between mothers and adolescents, and the impacts of different emotional valences and their varying intensities observed during parent-child interactions in the context of youth's depressive psychopathology.
Rachel Li
I am a 1st-year student in Miami's clinical program. My research interests center around exploring the reciprocal relations between emotion regulation and the development of internalizing disorders in both typically developing and ADHD adolescents. Moreover, I am interested in the contribution of family and friend relationships in shaping these aforementioned processes. I am particularly interested in studying emotion regulation as a dynamic, multidimensional process using various real-time data collection techniques.
Lab Alumni
Feven Ogbaselase-Beck
Dr. Ogbaselase-Beck is currently a post-doctoral fellow in neuropsychology at Rainbow Babies Children's Hospital in Cleveland, OH. Her research interests include the socialization of emotion regulation and emotion dynamic processes (i.e. emotional inertia) within families and their contribution to adolescent depression. I am also interested in using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to find out what might be occurring in the prefrontal cortex to account for the relations among socialization behaviors within the family, emotion regulation strategies, and adolescent depression.
Dissertation Title: Prefrontal activity in relation to emotion regulation, depression, and parental emotion socialization: An fNIRS experiment.
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Ogbaselase, F. A., Scelsa, V. L., Stoppelbein, L., Becker, S. P., Fite, P. J., Greening, L., & Luebbe, A. M. (2022). Psychometric properties of the children’s emotion management scales within a psychiatric sample. Psychological Assessment, 34, 620-630.
Ogbaselase, F. A., Mancini, K. J., & Luebbe, A.M. (2022). Indirect effect of family climate on adolescent depression through emotion regulatory processes. Emotion, 22, 1017-1029.
Luebbe, A. M., & Ogbaselase, F. A. (2018). Constriction of the educational pipeline for students of color at the point of entry to doctoral work in psychology: Commentary on Callahan and colleagues (2018). Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 12(4), 291–294.
Dissertation Title: Prefrontal activity in relation to emotion regulation, depression, and parental emotion socialization: An fNIRS experiment.
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Ogbaselase, F. A., Scelsa, V. L., Stoppelbein, L., Becker, S. P., Fite, P. J., Greening, L., & Luebbe, A. M. (2022). Psychometric properties of the children’s emotion management scales within a psychiatric sample. Psychological Assessment, 34, 620-630.
Ogbaselase, F. A., Mancini, K. J., & Luebbe, A.M. (2022). Indirect effect of family climate on adolescent depression through emotion regulatory processes. Emotion, 22, 1017-1029.
Luebbe, A. M., & Ogbaselase, F. A. (2018). Constriction of the educational pipeline for students of color at the point of entry to doctoral work in psychology: Commentary on Callahan and colleagues (2018). Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 12(4), 291–294.
Anjali Jain
Dr. Jain is currently a staff psychologist at the University of Cincinnati Lindner Center for Hope. Her program of research has two central aims: to understand the cultural shaping of psychopathology, and to apply this understanding to improve clinical evaluation and intervention. Specifically, her field of study examines the acceptance and utility of Western psychotherapies (e.g., CBT, DBT) in the context of local culture, knowledge, and understanding of the settings (i.e., international, virtual) in which they are implemented.
Dissertation Title: Evaluating the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of a Brief Virtual Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Group for College Students During COVID-19
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Jain, A., & Aggarwal, P. (2020). What would be most helpful for us to talk about? Trainee perspectives on culturally effective supervision in the USA and India. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 30(1), 84–92. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000184
Ortiz, S., Aggarwal, P., Jain, A., Singh, N., George, T. S., Smith, A., & Raval, V. V. (2022). Examining the Relationship between Academic Expectations and Suicidal Ideation among College Students in India Using the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Archives of Suicide Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2110026
Trevethan, M., Jain, A. T., Shatiyaseelan, A., Luebbe, A. M., & Raval, V. V. (2021). A longitudinal examination of the relation between academic stress and anxiety symptoms among adolescents in India: The role of physiological hyperarousal and social acceptance. International Journal of Psychology, 57(3), 401–410. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12825
Dissertation Title: Evaluating the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of a Brief Virtual Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Group for College Students During COVID-19
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Jain, A., & Aggarwal, P. (2020). What would be most helpful for us to talk about? Trainee perspectives on culturally effective supervision in the USA and India. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 30(1), 84–92. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000184
Ortiz, S., Aggarwal, P., Jain, A., Singh, N., George, T. S., Smith, A., & Raval, V. V. (2022). Examining the Relationship between Academic Expectations and Suicidal Ideation among College Students in India Using the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Archives of Suicide Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2110026
Trevethan, M., Jain, A. T., Shatiyaseelan, A., Luebbe, A. M., & Raval, V. V. (2021). A longitudinal examination of the relation between academic stress and anxiety symptoms among adolescents in India: The role of physiological hyperarousal and social acceptance. International Journal of Psychology, 57(3), 401–410. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12825
Joey Fredrick
Dr. Fredrick is currently a staff psychologist within the Center for ADHD at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. His research focuses on understanding how negative affect (e.g., fear, sadness, anger) is associated with youth internalizing disorders. His research, and our lab in general, also considers the role of positive affect (e.g., happiness, excitement, pride) in the development and maintenance of youth internalizing disorders. Specifically, he is interested in investigating how the experience and regulation of positive affect contributes to youth depression and social anxiety, in addition to understanding how the family environment (e.g., parent response to positive emotions, parenting behaviors) impact these processes.
Dissertation Title: Mother-adolescent dyadic affective flexibility across interactions: Measurement and predictive factors.
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Fredrick, J. W., & Luebbe, A. M. (2021). A Multi-Method, Multi-Informant Test of Maternal Emotion Socialization in Relation to Adolescent Fears of Social Evaluation. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
Fredrick, J. W., Kofler, M. J., Jarrett, M. A., Burns, G. L., Luebbe, A. M., Garner, A. A., Harmon, S. L., & Becker, S. P. (2020). Sluggish cognitive tempo and ADHD symptoms in relation to task-unrelated thought: Examining unique links with mind-wandering and rumination. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 123, 95–101.
Fredrick, J. W., & Luebbe, A. M. (2020). Fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety: A systematic review of trait-based findings. Journal of Affective Disorders, 265, 157–168.
Fredrick, J. W., Mancini, K. J., & Luebbe, A. M. (2019). Maternal enhancing responses to adolescents’ positive affect: Associations with adolescents’ positive affect regulation and depression. Social Development, 28, 290-305.
Dissertation Title: Mother-adolescent dyadic affective flexibility across interactions: Measurement and predictive factors.
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Fredrick, J. W., & Luebbe, A. M. (2021). A Multi-Method, Multi-Informant Test of Maternal Emotion Socialization in Relation to Adolescent Fears of Social Evaluation. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
Fredrick, J. W., Kofler, M. J., Jarrett, M. A., Burns, G. L., Luebbe, A. M., Garner, A. A., Harmon, S. L., & Becker, S. P. (2020). Sluggish cognitive tempo and ADHD symptoms in relation to task-unrelated thought: Examining unique links with mind-wandering and rumination. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 123, 95–101.
Fredrick, J. W., & Luebbe, A. M. (2020). Fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety: A systematic review of trait-based findings. Journal of Affective Disorders, 265, 157–168.
Fredrick, J. W., Mancini, K. J., & Luebbe, A. M. (2019). Maternal enhancing responses to adolescents’ positive affect: Associations with adolescents’ positive affect regulation and depression. Social Development, 28, 290-305.
Alex Nyquist
Dr. Nyquist is an Assistant Professor and Attending Psychologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Teen Health Center. She is currently a collaborator on Adolescent and Transition Medicine’s quality improvement initiatives for developing a zero suicide protocol and universal depression screenings during primary care visits in the Teen Health Center.
Dissertation Title: A Structured Interview Measure of Emotion Awareness for Adolescents
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Nyquist, A. C., Luebbe, A. M. (2021). Parents’ Beliefs, Depressive Symptoms, and Emotion Regulation Uniquely Relate to Parental Responses to Adolescent Positive Affect. Family Process, 1-15.
Nyquist, A. C., Luebbe, A. M. (2020). An Emotion Recognition–Awareness Vulnerability Hypothesis for Depression in Adolescence: A Systematic Review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 23, 27–53.
Nyquist, A. C., Fredrick, J. W. & Luebbe, A. M. (2019). Adolescent Temperament, but Not Age or Gender, Is Associated with Parental Socialization of Positive Affect. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 1524–1536.
Dissertation Title: A Structured Interview Measure of Emotion Awareness for Adolescents
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Nyquist, A. C., Luebbe, A. M. (2021). Parents’ Beliefs, Depressive Symptoms, and Emotion Regulation Uniquely Relate to Parental Responses to Adolescent Positive Affect. Family Process, 1-15.
Nyquist, A. C., Luebbe, A. M. (2020). An Emotion Recognition–Awareness Vulnerability Hypothesis for Depression in Adolescence: A Systematic Review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 23, 27–53.
Nyquist, A. C., Fredrick, J. W. & Luebbe, A. M. (2019). Adolescent Temperament, but Not Age or Gender, Is Associated with Parental Socialization of Positive Affect. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 1524–1536.
Kathryn Mancini
Dr. Mancini is a pediatric psychologist at MetroHealth Hospital in Cleveland, OH, where she also completed her clinical internship and a post-doctoral fellowship. Her program of research examines real-time (i.e., moment-to-moment) emotion processes between parents and adolescents that impact mood disorders across development. She is interested in both intrapersonal emotion functioning (e.g., emotional inertia, emotion regulation) and interpersonal emotion functioning (e.g., dyadic affective flexibility, emotion corregulation).
Dissertation Title: Mother-adolescent dyadic affective flexibility across interactions: Measurement and predictive factors.
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Mancini, K. J. & Luebbe, A.M. (2021). Dyadic affective flexibility: Measurement considerations and the impact of youth internalizing symptoms on flexibility. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 43, 131-141.
Mancini, K. J., Luebbe, A. M., & Bell, D. J. (2016). Valence-specific emotion transmission: Potential influences on parent-adolescent emotion coregulation. Emotion.
Mancini K. J., & Luebbe, A. M. (2016). Dyadic affective flexibility and emotional inertia in relation to youth psychopathology: An integrated model at two time scales. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 19, 117-133.
Dissertation Title: Mother-adolescent dyadic affective flexibility across interactions: Measurement and predictive factors.
Selected Publications while in the FRAM lab:
Mancini, K. J. & Luebbe, A.M. (2021). Dyadic affective flexibility: Measurement considerations and the impact of youth internalizing symptoms on flexibility. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 43, 131-141.
Mancini, K. J., Luebbe, A. M., & Bell, D. J. (2016). Valence-specific emotion transmission: Potential influences on parent-adolescent emotion coregulation. Emotion.
Mancini K. J., & Luebbe, A. M. (2016). Dyadic affective flexibility and emotional inertia in relation to youth psychopathology: An integrated model at two time scales. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 19, 117-133.
Lauren M. Fussner
Dr. Fussner is a psychologist in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center specializing in pediatric pain psychology. Her clinical internship was completed at Oregon Health & Science University.
Dissertation Title: Approach to Social and Nonsocial Reward: Associations with Symptoms of Depression and Dietary Restraint in Female Adolescents
Selected Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Fussner, L.M., Luebbe, A. M., Mancini, K. J., & Becker, S. P. (in press). Emotion dysregulation mediates the longitudinal relation between peer rejection and depression: Differential effects of gender and grade. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
Fussner, L.M., Mancini, K. J., & Luebbe, A. M. (in press). Depression and reward functioning: Differential behavioral sensitivity to monetary, social, and food reward. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
Luebbe, A. M., Mancini, K.J., Kiel, E. J., Spangler, B. R., Semlak, J. L., & Fussner, L.M. (in press). Dimensionality of helicopter parenting and relations to emotional, decision-making, and academic functioning in emerging adults. Assessment.
Fussner, L. M., Luebbe, A. M., & Bell, D. J. (2015). Dynamics of positive emotion regulation: Associations with youth depressive symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 475-488.
Dissertation Title: Approach to Social and Nonsocial Reward: Associations with Symptoms of Depression and Dietary Restraint in Female Adolescents
Selected Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Fussner, L.M., Luebbe, A. M., Mancini, K. J., & Becker, S. P. (in press). Emotion dysregulation mediates the longitudinal relation between peer rejection and depression: Differential effects of gender and grade. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
Fussner, L.M., Mancini, K. J., & Luebbe, A. M. (in press). Depression and reward functioning: Differential behavioral sensitivity to monetary, social, and food reward. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
Luebbe, A. M., Mancini, K.J., Kiel, E. J., Spangler, B. R., Semlak, J. L., & Fussner, L.M. (in press). Dimensionality of helicopter parenting and relations to emotional, decision-making, and academic functioning in emerging adults. Assessment.
Fussner, L. M., Luebbe, A. M., & Bell, D. J. (2015). Dynamics of positive emotion regulation: Associations with youth depressive symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 475-488.
Anna Han Hung
Dr. Hung is currently a licensed psychologist at Kaiser Permanente with affiliations with Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She previously completed post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University and at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Her clinical internship was completed at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She specializes in pediatric psychology.
Dissertation Title: Adolescent Reactions to Parental Emotion Socialization: Gender, Ethnicity, and Relations to Depression and Emotion Regulation
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Hung, A., Luebbe, A.M., & Flaspohler, P. (2015). Measuring school climate: Factor analysis and relations to emotional problems, conduct problems, and victimization in middle school students. School Mental Health, 7, 105-119.
Dissertation Title: Adolescent Reactions to Parental Emotion Socialization: Gender, Ethnicity, and Relations to Depression and Emotion Regulation
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Hung, A., Luebbe, A.M., & Flaspohler, P. (2015). Measuring school climate: Factor analysis and relations to emotional problems, conduct problems, and victimization in middle school students. School Mental Health, 7, 105-119.
Rachel Burgard Chandley
Dr. Chandley works for Stresscare Behavioral Health in the Toledo, OH, area. Her clinical internship was completed at University of Cincinnati's Counseling Center. She focuses on work with emerging adults primarily in the areas of internalizing disorders and relationship issues.
Dissertation Title: Physical Affection in the Parent-Child Relationship
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Chandley, R. B., Luebbe, A.M., Messman-Moore, T., & Ward, R. M. (2014). Anxiety sensitivity, coping motives, emotion dysregulation, an alcohol-related outcomes in college women: A moderated-mediation model. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 83-92.
Dissertation Title: Physical Affection in the Parent-Child Relationship
Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Chandley, R. B., Luebbe, A.M., Messman-Moore, T., & Ward, R. M. (2014). Anxiety sensitivity, coping motives, emotion dysregulation, an alcohol-related outcomes in college women: A moderated-mediation model. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 83-92.
Stephen P. Becker
Dr. Becker is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his internship at the Center for ADHD at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center. Broadly, his program of research focuses on the developmental psychopathology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a particular interest in comorbid mental health problems (especially internalizing problems and sluggish cognitive tempo), social adjustment, and academic functioning. You can learn more about his research interests and activities here.
Dissertation Title: Social Information Processing, Comorbid Mental Health Symptoms, and Peer Isolation among Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Selected Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Becker, S. P., Luebbe, A. M., Fite, P. J., Stoppelbein, L., & Greening, L. (2013). Sluggish cognitive tempo in psychiatrically hospitalized children: Factor structure and relations to internalizing symptoms, social problems, and observed behavioral dysregulation. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10802-013-9719-y
Becker, S. P., Luebbe, A. M., & Langberg, J. M. (2012). Co-occurring mental health problems and peer functioning among youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A review and recommendations for future research. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10567-012-0122-y
Becker, S. P., Luebbe, A. M., Stoppelbein, L., Greening, L., & Fite, P. J. (2012). Aggression among children with ADHD, anxiety, or co-occurring symptoms: Competing exacerbation and attenuation hypotheses. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 527-542. doi: 10.1007/s10802-011-9590-7
Dissertation Title: Social Information Processing, Comorbid Mental Health Symptoms, and Peer Isolation among Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Selected Publications while in the FRAM Lab:
Becker, S. P., Luebbe, A. M., Fite, P. J., Stoppelbein, L., & Greening, L. (2013). Sluggish cognitive tempo in psychiatrically hospitalized children: Factor structure and relations to internalizing symptoms, social problems, and observed behavioral dysregulation. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10802-013-9719-y
Becker, S. P., Luebbe, A. M., & Langberg, J. M. (2012). Co-occurring mental health problems and peer functioning among youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A review and recommendations for future research. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10567-012-0122-y
Becker, S. P., Luebbe, A. M., Stoppelbein, L., Greening, L., & Fite, P. J. (2012). Aggression among children with ADHD, anxiety, or co-occurring symptoms: Competing exacerbation and attenuation hypotheses. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 527-542. doi: 10.1007/s10802-011-9590-7