Kirsten McKone is a doctoral student in the clinical-developmental psychology program at the University of Pittsburgh. Kirsten graduated from Saint Olaf College in 2008 with a B.A. in music. After graduation, she worked in education reform in California before deciding to pursue a graduate degree in psychology. Her research interests include risk and resilience to psychopathology, temperament, parent-child interaction, psychophysiology, and advanced statistical methods. She is particularly interested in how parents interact with their children in ways that either exacerbate risk or promote resilience to psychopathology.
