Emily Barnes
Doctoral Student
Emily Barnes is a doctoral student at BU Wheelock. She studies child anxiety and is interested in understanding how anxiety affects attention and other aspects of cognition. She is also passionate about expanding access to mental health treatment for youth and families and researching models of care that expand accessibility (e.g., school-based interventions; technology-based tools; integrated primary care).
Emily has completed a clinical practicum at the SPARK Center at Boston Medical Center and a practicum at the BU Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders Child & Adolescent Program. Before beginning her graduate studies, she worked as a research assistant in the Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry Department.
Advisor: Amie Grills
Pronouns: she/hers
Education
BA, Psychology & Plan II Honors, University of Texas at Austin
Courses
Teaching Fellow for WED CE 710 Child & Adolescent Psychopathology
Selected Presentations
Grills, A.E., Barnes, E.D., Vaughn, S., Roberts, G., Fall, A.-M., & Capin, P. (2022, Feb. 17-19). The role of anxiety management in accelerating reading outcomes and reducing anxiety problems. In Closing Session: Integrating Anxiety Management and Reading Intervention. Symposium conducted at the 30th Annual Pacific Coast Research Conference.
Newman, K.*, Barnes, E.D.*, Grills, A.E., Bowman, C., & Vaughn, S. (2021, April 9). (*Co-Presenters). Teacher Perspectives on Effective Components of an Evidence-Based Reading and Anxiety Intervention. In A. Skubel (Chair), Creating a Culture of Care: The Importance of Student-Teacher Relationships. Symposium conducted at the virtual annual meeting of the American Education Research Association.
Barnes, E.D., Silver, B.M., Clark-Whitney, E., Ajodan, E.L., Scult, M.A., & Jones, R.M. (2019 Aug. 30-Sep. 1). Like My Status: validation of a novel social decision-making task. Poster presented at the Annual Flux Congress for the Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, New York, NY.
Jones, R.M., Barnes, E.D., Ajodan, E.L., Silver, B.M., Clark-Whitney, E., & Scult, M.A. (2019 March 28-31). Behavioral and neural correlates of adolescent-specific social motivations: Implications for psychosocial treatments. Presentation at the Anxiety and Depression Conference, Chicago, IL.