Kirsten McKone
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Pronouns: she/her/hers
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Postdoctoral Associate
Areas of interest
Adolescents and youth; Families and parenting; Social and emotional development
PhD, Clinical & Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 2024
Kirsten McKone (she/her) is a postdoctoral fellow in the RAD Lab supported by a T32 training grant in developmental psychopathology at the Institute of Child Development. She completed her PhD in the joint clinical and developmental psychology program at the University of Pittsburgh, and her clinical internship on the child and adolescent track at Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis. She is interested in dynamic emotion and regulatory processes in the development of psychopathology in adolescence. Long term, her goal is to build a career in developmental psychopathology research, teaching, and clinical practice that supports and harmonizes with a rich and fulfilling personal life with her husband, children, and extended family in the Twin Cities region.
McKone KMP, Edershile EA, Ladouceur CD, Silk JS. Real-world flexibility in adolescent girls’ emotion regulation strategy selection: An investigation of strategy switching. Development and Psychopathology. 2024;36(1):181-195. doi:10.1017/S0954579422001079
McKone, K.M.P., Silk, J.S. The Emotion Dynamics Conundrum in Developmental Psychopathology: Similarities, Distinctions, and Adaptiveness of Affective Variability and Socioaffective Flexibility. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 25, 44–74 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-022-00382-8
McKone, K.M.P., Woody, M.L., Ladouceur, C.D. et al. Mother-Daughter Mutual Arousal Escalation and Emotion Regulation in Adolescence. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 49, 615–628 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00763-z