Tori Simenec
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Pronouns: she, her, hers
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Doctoral Student
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Institute of Child Development
Carmen D. and James R. Campbell Hall
51 East River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55455 - sime0060@umn.edu
Areas of interest
Culture, cross-culture; Prevention/intervention;
BS Psychology, University of Minnesota, 2015
Tori Simenec is a fourth-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Her research interests include prevention and intervention programs designed to increase positive outcomes and reduce the risk for psychopathologies in underrepresented populations. Specifically, she is interested in increasing the relevance of and engagement with empirical programs through cultural adaptation and innovative dissemination strategies that align with the ways families and adolescents make health decisions. She is currently engaged in research with Dr. Gail Ferguson investigating the cultural adaptation and digitization of interventions.
Simenec, T.S., Banegas, J., Para Cardona, J.R., & Gewirtz, A. (2022). Culturally responsive targeted social media marketing to facilitate engagement with the Parenting in the Moment program. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Simenec, T.S., Gillespie, S., Hodges, H.R., Ibrahim, S., Eckerstorfer, S., JUS Media? Adaptation Team, & Ferguson G.M. (2022). A novel blueprint storyboarding method using digitization for efficient cultural adaptation of prevention programs to serve diverse youth and communities. Prevention Science.
Simenec, T. S., & Reid, B. M. (2020). Refugee Children and Interventions for Depression: A Review of Current Interventions and Implications of the Ecological Context. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 1524838020979844.