Veronica Benyamin
LATEST NEWS
Paul De Luca
published his MA thesis in Adversity and Resilience Science.
Check out his publication here!
Congratulations Paul!
April, 2026
Gillian Shoychet
was successful in obtaining SMART Training Platform Program funding to build capacity in implementation science, based on her dissertation work with the York University Psychology Clinic.
Congratulations, Gilli!
April, 2026
Nikoleta Zaraki
was awarded the Health Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (H-DURA) to support her in in gaining hands-on, paid research experience this summer in the Prime Lab.
Congratulations, Nikoleta!
April, 2026
Anh Nguyen
was awarded the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to fund her MA research.
Congratulations, Anh!
April, 2026
Maya Koven, Gillian Shoychet, & Dr. Prime
published a Viewpoint in JAMA Pediatrics.
Check out their publication here!
Congratulations!
February, 2026
Maya Koven
published her thesis in Child: Care, Health and Development.
Check out her publication here!
Congratulations!
October, 2025
Alexandra Marwell
received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship to fund her doctoral research.
Congratulations, Alexandra!
September, 2025
Anh Nguyen
joined our lab as an MA student in Clinical Developmental Psychology.
Welcome, Ahn!
September, 2025
Paul De Luca and Maya Koven
successfully defended their MA theses.
Congratulations, Paul and Maya!
July, 2025
Isha Dua, Parker Grant,
Jazzmin Demy & Dr. Prime
published their recent work in the Clinical Child and
Family Psychology Review journal. Check out their publication here!
Congratulations, all!
July, 2025
Jazzmin Demy & Dr. Prime
published their recent work in the
Infant Mental Health journal. Check out their publication here!
Congratulations, Jazzmin and Dr. Prime!
June, 2025
Alexandra Markwell, Paul De Luca & Dr. Prime
published a Viewpoint in the BMJ Paediatrics Open journal.
Check out their publication here!
Congratulations, Alexandra, Paul and Dr. Prime!
May, 2025
Gillian Shoychet
was awarded the CPA Family Psychology Master’s Thesis Award (2025)
for her master's thesis. Check out her publication here!
Congratulations, Gillian!
May, 2025
Sierrah A. Hamilton
was accepted to the MSc/PhD Clinical Psychology program
in the lifespan stream at the University of Victoria, BC.
Congratulations, Sierrah!
April, 2025
Rose Peyvandi
was accepted to the MEd Counselling Psychology program
at OISE of the University of Toronto.
Congratulations, Rose!
April, 2025
Mariana Valente
was awarded the Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Undergraduate Scholarship.
Congratulations, Mariana!
April, 2025
Sierrah A. Hamilton
received an honourable mention for her honours thesis poster presentation
at the Psychology Undergraduate Poster Day, held at York University.
Congratulations, Sierrah!
April, 2025
Maya Koven
successfully passed her oral exam for her Master's thesis titled "The Indirect Effect of a Brief Couple Intervention on Child Mental Health via the Interparental Relationship"
Congratulations, Maya!
March, 2025
Paul De Luca
was awarded the LaMarsh Centre Leadership Award.
Congratulations, Paul!
October, 2024
Gillian Shoychet
was awarded the Certificate of Excellence by the Canadian Psychological
Association to acknowledge the Psychology Department’s top thesis students
at the Master’s level.
Congratulations, Gillian!
October, 2024
Isha Dua
was awarded the Certificate of Excellence by the Canadian Psychological Association for her 2023-2024 Honours Thesis, ‘Culturally Responsive Adaptation in Coparenting Interventions with Diverse Families: A Scoping Review’.
Congratulations, Isha!
October, 2024
Dr. Prime
was awarded a 2-year Insight Development Grant titled "Daily Stress for Whom? Development of a Daily Stress Scale for Diverse Parent Populations"
Congratulations, Dr. Prime!
June, 2024
Maya Koven
was awarded the Canada Graduate Scholarship - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement to study systemic couple's interventions at the University of Lausanne. Congratulations, Maya!
August, 2024
Dr. Prime
was awarded the Collaborative and/or Community-Based Research Seed Grant from York University to study processes of family resilience to everyday stress.
Congratulations, Dr. Prime!
May, 2024
Dr. Prime
was awarded the SSHRC Explore Grant from York University to support the development of a daily stress scale for diverse parents.
Congratulations, Dr. Prime!
May, 2024
Jazzmin Demy
was awarded the CIHR Canadian Graduate School Scholarship to fund her PhD research.
Congratulations, Jazzmin!
May, 2024
Jazzmin Demy, Maya Koven,
Alex Markwell & Gillian Shoychet
have been accepted to present at the 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development in Portugal, in June 2024.
Congratulations, all!
April, 2024
Isha Dua
was awarded the Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Undergraduate Scholarship.
Congratulations, Isha!
April, 2024
Prime Family Lab
Maya Koven and Paul De Luca were awarded the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to fund their MA research.
Congratulations, all!
April, 2024
Jazzmin Demy
has joined the second cohort of Fellows on the DIVERT Mental Health Platform.
Congratulations, Jazzmin!
March, 2024
Isha Dua
has been accepted to present findings from her scoping review at CPA’s 85th Annual National Convention in Ottawa.
Congratulations, Isha!
March, 2024
Dr. Prime, Jazzmin Demy, & Alex Markwell
have been accepted to present findings from the L2P2 project at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention in San Diego in 2024.
Congratulations, all!
November, 2023
Dr. Prime
was awarded the Faculty of Health Joint Junior Faculty Funds & Minor Research Grant for a new project titled: Implementation of an Ultra-Brief Family Systems Intervention in a University Psychology Clinic.
Congratulations, Dr. Prime!
November, 2023
Gillian Shoychet
received the MA Award in Clinical-Developmental Psychology, which acknowledges her graduate student leadership and scholarly excellence.
Congratulations, Gilli!
November, 2023
Gillian Shoychet
published Empirical support for a model of risk and resilience in children and families during COVID-19: A systematic review & narrative synthesis in Development & Psychopathology.
Congratulations, Gilli!
August, 2023
Maya Koven
is joining the lab as part of York University's MA/PhD Program in Clinical Developmental Psychology.
Welcome, Maya!
August, 2023
Paul De Luca
is joining the lab as part of York University's MA/PhD Program in Clinical Developmental Psychology.
Welcome, Paul!
September, 2023
Dr. Prime
published Promoting Conflict Reappraisal in Parenting Couples: A Feasibility Study and Preliminary Evaluation of a Brief Writing Intervention in Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Congratulations, Dr. Prime!
August, 2023
Prime Family Lab
Gilli, Alex, and Jazzmin presented their symposium titled A Family Systems Approach to Understanding Family Functioning Amid the Pandemic at the CPA 2023 Annual Convention.
Congratulations, Jazzmin, Alex, and Gilli!
June, 2023
Prime Family Lab
Jazzmin Demy, Alex Markwell, and Maya Koven were awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship to fund their MA research.
Congratulations!
June, 2023
Jazzmin Demy
was awarded the Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Graduate Scholarship for her interest in the area of maternal-child health.
Congratulations, Jazzmin!
April, 2023
Gillian Shoychet
was awarded the SSHRC Canadian Graduate School Scholarship to fund her PhD research!
Congratulations Gilli!
April, 2023
Prime Family Lab
We had a wonderful time in Salt Lake City for the biennial convention for the Society of Research in Child Development. Check out Jazzmin and Alex's posters!
March, 2023
Prime Family Lab
and collaborators published Positive Parenting and Early Childhood Cognition: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.
February, 2023
Dr. Prime
published the Love Together, Parent Together (L2P2) protocol describing our ongoing L2P2 research program.
September, 2022
Jazzmin Demy
began at York University's MA/PhD Program in Clinical Developmental Psychology.
Welcome, Jazzmin!
September, 2022
Alex Markwell
began at York University's MA/PhD Program in Clinical Developmental Psychology.
Welcome, Alex!
September, 2022
Dr. Prime
published Pandemic-related disruption and positive adaptation: Profiles of family function at the onset of the pandemic in Adversity and Resilience Science: Journal of Research and Practice.
September, 2022
Gillian Shoychet
published Assessing positive adaptation during a global crisis: The development and validation of the family positive adaptation during COVID-19 scale in Frontiers in Psychology.
September, 2022
Maya Koven
started as lab coordinator helping to run our L2P2 study (and others!).
September, 2022
Prime Family Lab
Gilli, Alex, Negar and Katherine presented their research at the Development 2022 Conference and CPA's 83rd Convention.
Congratulations to the lab!
June, 2022
Gillian Shoychet
was awarded second place for her poster titled The Validation of the COVID-19 Family Disruption Model: A Systematic Search & Narrative Synthesis at the Canadian Psychological Association's 83rd convention (Family Psychology section).
Congratulations, Gilli!
June, 2022
Dr. Prime
was awarded the President's New Researcher Award by the Canadian Psychological Association. The award recognizes the exceptional quality of the contribution of new researchers to psychological knowledge in Canada.
Congratulations, Dr. Prime!
May, 2022
Jazzmin Demy
was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to fund her MA research.
Congratulations, Jazzmin!
April, 2022
Alex Markwell
was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship to fund her MA research.
Congratulations, Alex!
April, 2022
Gillian Shoychet
was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship and The Meighen Wright Foundation Maternal-Child Health Graduate Scholarship for her MA research.
Congratulations, Gilli!
April, 2022
Prime Family Lab
research was featured in an article titled 4 tips for improving family wellness in the Globe and Mail.
Congratulations to the lab!
April, 2022
Alex Markwell
was named a Top 25 finalist in the SSHRC Storytellers competition. Her submission focused on findings from a SSHRC-funded meta-analysis.
Congratulations, Alex!
April, 2022
Gillian Shoychet
had her symposium talk titled Assessing positive change during a global crisis: The development and validation of the COVID-19 family benefits and coping scale accepted at Development 2022.
Congratulations, Gilli!
March, 2022
Alex Markwell
had her symposium talk titled A preliminary evaluation of Love Together, Parent Together (L2P2): A writing intervention to improve couples' conflict and family functioning accepted at Development 2022.
Congratulations, Alex!
March, 2022
Negar Shavandi
had her independent research project titled The association between COVID-19 family stressors and sibling relationship challenges: Moderation by sibling age gap accepted as a poster at Development 2022.
Congratulations, Negar!
March, 2022
Gillian Shoychet
had her symposium talk titled Assessing positive change during a global crisis: The development and validation of the COVID-19 family benefits and coping scale accepted at Development 2022.
Congratulations, Gilli!
March, 2022
Alex Markwell
had her symposium talk titled A preliminary evaluation of Love Together, Parent Together (L2P2): A writing intervention to improve couples' conflict and family functioning accepted at Development 2022.
Congratulations, Alex!
March, 2022
Gillian Shoychet
has published her first paper titled The Impact of COVID-19 Anxiety on Quality of Life in Canadian Adults: The Moderating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Health Locus of Control in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/ Revue.
Congratulations, Gilli!
March, 2022
Maya Koven
has joined the lab as the newest research assistant.
Welcome, Maya!
March, 2022
Kathrine McGuire
was awarded the Lillian Meighen Wright Maternal-Child Health Undergraduate Scholarship.
Congratulations, Katherine!
March, 2022
Veronica Benyamin
was accepted to McMaster University's MSc program in Psychotherapy. Congratulations, Veronica!
March, 2022