DAPS

Dalhousie Association of

Psychology Students

CIHR Café Scientifique: “Bad Girls”: Mad or Sad?

7:00pm-9:00pm

Waegwoltic Club, Halifax

6549 Coburg Road

Please RSVP: [email protected] or 473-7358

Objectives:

(1) To increase awareness of the prevalence and costs associated with “bad” behaviours in girls such as aggression and conduct disorder;

(2) To share and discuss recent scientific information regarding the potential causes of these ‘externalizing’ behaviours in girls, focusing on whether the motives are distinct in girls vs. boys;

(3) To examine the issue from a developmental perspective through additional consideration of what factors motivate criminal and antisocial behaviours in adult women.

Featuring:

Dr. Kathleen Pajer (speaker). Dr. Pajer is Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie and Head of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is an expert in antisocial behaviour disorders. The primary focus of her research has been the interaction between stress response system function and long-term outcomes in adolescent girls with antisocial behaviour.

Dr. Candice Odgers (speaker). Associate Director, Center for Child and Family Policy/ Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. Her research focuses on the developmental course of externalizing disorders, particularly in girls. A prolific and well-funded researcher, Dr. Odgers received the 2011 Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Research on Child Development and a CIHR Brain Star Award in 2006.

Dr. Margo Watt (speaker). Dr. Watt is a licensed clinical psychologist in the province of Nova Scotia. She has a forensic psychology background. She is Professor of Psychology at Saint Francis Xavier University and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Dalhousie and Acadia Universities. She has worked clinically and done forensic research with adult female offenders. She has worked part time as a forensic risk assessor for Corrections Services Canada since 1998.

Dr. Sherry Stewart (moderator). Dr. Stewart is a CIHR-funded Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at Dalhousie. She has published broadly on personality and motivational factors, as well as gender differences, in substance abuse behaviour in adolescents and young adults. She and her colleagues have developed and tested novel personality-matched interventions for substance abuse prevention and treatment.