Evan Rooney

Evan Rooney (CV) is a sixth-year student in the Clinical Psychology program at Ole Miss. Evan graduated from the State University of New York at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo) in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. While at SUNY Geneseo, Evan served as an undergraduate research assistant in the Center for Research on Human Development and Adaptation with Dr. Michael Lynch, working on studies that examined the influence of coping flexibility on stress management and used a daily diary design to examine the associations between daily stress, associated coping efforts, and mental health. Prior to his graduate training at the University of Mississippi, Evan worked as a post-baccalaureate research coordinator at multiple institutions. At the University of Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center, Evan served as the research coordinator on a NIDA funded study examining the role of childhood maltreatment on drug use in late adolescence and emerging adulthood with Dr. Fred Rogosch. Additionally, Evan served as the research coordinator for the Trauma and Grief Center at Texas Children’s Hospital with Dr. Julie Kaplow. In this position, Evan coordinated data collection, management, and reporting across multiple projects funded by SAMHSA and numerous foundation grants. These projects sought to integrate clinical and research endeavors in the provision of trauma and grief-informed treatment in the greater Houston, TX area, as well as during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and the Santa Fe High School shooting.

Evan’s current research interests focus on risk and resilience factors among youth and young adults with negative life experiences (e.g., childhood maltreatment, catastrophic medical diagnoses, and trauma exposure), such as coping strategies, social support, and religiousness. Additionally, his research has also focused on the dissemination of psychometrically sound instruments for the assessment of trauma symptoms among youth.