Maegan Calvert, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor

Dr. Maegan Calvert received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Eastern Michigan University and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of Arkansas. Her graduate research explored the sequelae of interpersonal violence by characterizing the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among parent factors, adversity, and later outcomes (e.g., substance use, health outcomes, resilience, child social-emotional development, parenting difficulties). Her dissertation explored associations among maternal post traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), disruptive emotion processes (i.e., alexithymia, difficulties interpreting emotions, negative beliefs about emotions), and parenting beliefs, and sought to describe the processes by which treatment for PTSS among incarcerated women may decrease negative parenting beliefs. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship at University of Mississippi Medical Center in child psychology and her clinical postdoctoral training at Children’s Medical Center Dallas in pediatric psychology. Her clinical expertise is working with children and families with histories of interpersonal trauma. Maegan joined the Brain Imaging Research Center and the NIDA Addiction T32 to study neurodevelopmental trajectories of early life adversity, addiction risk, and resilience. She is particularly interested in the ways in which caregiver-child dyadic interactions and adversity shape the developing brain’s functional networks and confer risk/resilience to future psychopathology. With this line of research, her goal is to increase the effectiveness of psychological treatments for children and adolescence and inform efforts to prevent psychopathology across the lifespan.