Katie Newkirk
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Research interests: Mental health in family relationships; family research methodology; antenatal & postnatal maternal mental health; maternal perinatal depression and children’s mental health; paid & unpaid work and maternal mental health; paid & unpaid work and couple relationships; the influence of family structure on working mothers’ mental health.
Teaching
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Summer 2014/Summer 2015: Social Work Research Methods – Intermediate (Graduate), Smith College, School for Social Work
Summer 2013: Social Work Research Methods - Introductory (Graduate), Smith College, School for Social Work
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Summer 2012: Power Up for College Success (High School), Summer College Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Summer 2011: Power Up for College Success (Undergraduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Spring 2015: Personality (Undergraduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fall 2013/Fall 2014: Hierarchical Linear Modeling (Graduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fall 2013: Adult Assessment (Graduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fall 2012: Child Assessment (Graduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spring 2012: Introduction to Psychology (Undergraduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fall 2010-Fall 2011, Spring 2013: Methods of Inquiry in Psychology (Undergraduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fall 2009: Individual Counseling (Graduate), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Publications
Perry-Jenkins, M., Newkirk, K., and Ghunney, A. (2013). Family work through time and space: An ecological perspective. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 5, 105 – 123. DOI: 10.111/jftr.12011
Yoon, Y., Newkirk, K., and Perry-Jenkins, M. (2015). Dinner with Dad: Family routines, parenting stress, and child outcomes. Family Relations, 64 (93 – 107). DOI:10.1111/fare.12107
Newkirk, K., Perry-Jenkins, M., and Sayer, A. (2017). Dishes and diapers: The division of labor and marital quality across the transition to parenthood. Sex Roles.76(5), 319-333. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-016-0604-3
Constantino, M. J., Coyne, A. E., Luukko, E. K., Newkirk, K., Bernecker, S. L., Ravitz, P., and McBride, C. (2017). Therapeutic alliance, subsequent change, and moderators of the alliance-outcome association in interpersonal psychotherapy for depression. Psychotherapy, 54(2), 125-135. DOI: 10.1037/pst0000101
Perry-Jenkins, M., Herman, R. J., Halpern, H., and Newkirk, K. (2017). From discovery to practice: Translating and transforming work-family research for the health of families. Family Relations, 66(4). 614-629. DOI: 10.1111/fare.12267
Vîslă , A., Constantino, M. J., Newkirk, K., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., and Söchting , I. (2018). The relation between outcome expectation, therapeutic alliance, and outcome among depressed patients in group cognitive-behavioral therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 18(3), 446-456. DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2016.1218089
Perry-Jenkins, M., Laws, H., Sayer, A., and Newkirk, K. (2019). Parents’ work and children’s development: A longitudinal investigation of working-class families. Journal of Family Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/fam00008580
Constantino, M. J., Aviram, A., Coyne, A. E., Newkirk, K., Greenberg, R. P., Westra, H. A., Antony, M. M. (2019). Dyadic, longitudinal associations among outcome expectation and alliance, and their indirect effects on patient outcome. Journal of Counseling Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/cou0000364
Biography
Katie Newkirk earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2018 from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, where she began working with Maureen Perry-Jenkins on the Work and Family Transitions Project in 2010. Katie’s research focuses primarily on working parents’ transition to parenthood and how employment factors and family processes during this life stage are related to parents’ mental health and children’s developmental outcomes. Her dissertation addressed how different types of symptoms of postpartum depression are related to father involvement in childcare.
Katie is interested in research methodology and statistics and has taught research methods to graduate students at the Smith School for Social work from 2013 - 2015. She has worked as a teaching assistant for the graduate level Hierarchical Linear Modeling course at UMass, and has worked as a statistical consultant for the Quality of Worklife Project at UMass and the University of Maryland College Park, and as a consultant and research assistant for the Psychotherapy Research Lab at UMass. While earning her MA in Community Counseling at Northeastern Illinois University, she was also involved in research on same-sex parent families and bullying prevention programs.