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The Gevirtz School

Graduate School of Education
University of California, Santa Barbara

Maryam Kia-Keating, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology
PhD, Boston University

EdM, Harvard University

AB, Dartmouth College


Emphasis: Clinical Psychology

Expertise: Risk and protective factors; Resilience; Culture and acculturation; Immigrant and refugee youth; Exposure to violence and trauma; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Stress and coping; School-based mental health programs; Community participatory research; School, family, and community partnerships

Kia-Keating Lab at UCSB:  Our lab engages in a wide range of research activities centered around investigations of risk and resilience, developmental psychopathology, and the psychocultural factors that impact mental health and recovery processes.  More information about our lab and work can be found using the links on the left.

Our lab will be accepting new graduate students for academic year 2010-2011 who aspire to an academic or research career in clinical psychology. Please refer to the Research link for more information about our current activities and recent publications.