Projects

Research Projects

The Child Protection Lab, led by Dr. David Mantell, is a Clinical and Forensic Psychology focused lab. With expertise in child protection, Dr. Mantell is able to provide real world questions from the courtroom to help direct our projects to answer these questions. Our projects focus on children in the criminal justice legal system to help us better understand the needs of children. 
Testimony
Sex Crimes Against Children: Testimonial Accommodations for Child Witnesses

Project Lead: Jenna Wettstein

Research Assistants: Madison Rudick and Ian Carroll

Past Students: Genevieve Gottlieb and Yuhan Zang

Status: Near Completion - In Review

Teddy Bear
Comprehensive State Level Analysis of Child Fatality Causes: 33 Year Review

Project Lead: Ivorie Farley-Cook

Research Assistants: Yuehan “Yvette” Gan, Christine Hyun, Constantina Venetis  

Past Students: Maya Granot, Abby Kiros, Dyhamon Brown, Julia Maney, and Elise Fry

Status: Near Completion - Final Data Analysis

Interview
The Nature of Child Forensic Interview Protocols Across the 50 States

Project Leads: Brianna Yost and Abigail Wade

Research Assistants: Srujana Mallem, Yas Saghafi, Meghan Scarlott

Past Students: Brooke Gordon, Carmen Harrel, and Sydney Currie

Status: Coding and Assessing

Child Therapy
Child Therapists Perspective on Information Provided by Children

Project Lead: Joshua Bonilla

Research Assistants: Laura Bautista and Nicole Mack

Status: Will be accepting Research Assistant applications soon! 

Child T
Child Sex Trafficking Across Southern Border

Project Lead: Lexie Gray

Research Assistants: Destiny Donaldson, Miriam Saavedra, Joshua Bonilla, and Yoshita Dawar

Status: Development of second draft

PTSD Symptomology
PSTD Symptom Duration in Child Sexual Abuse

Project Leads: Lily Eastman and Noah Means-Simonson

Research Assistants: Lexie Gray, Julliette Lezark, Connie Maerker, and Emily Fippen

Past Students: Rayshmi Fernando and Weiqi Wang

Status: 

Figure Drawings
Published Research On The Use of Human Figure Drawings in Child Forensic Interviews

Project Leads: Erin Montion and Gabby Drake

Research Assistants: Alyssa Murdoch

Status:

Disclosure
Incremental Disclosure of Sexual Abuse: What does the Empirical Literature Tell Us

Project Leads: Genevieve Gottlieb and Yuhan Zang

Research Assistants: Charlotte Eiseman and Tala Chehaitly

Status:

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