Jennifer Jenkins
Professor
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. Jennifer Jenkins is Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto. Her background is in child development, family systems and developmental psychopathology and she started doing clinical work with children and families in 1979. She is involved in several broad areas of empirical work: the emotional organization of children with psychopathology, risk and resilience in child psychopathology (including within family differences in development) and theory of mind and emotion. In applied practice, Dr. Jenkins is interested in policy and program innovation at the clinical and population level that will improve the mental health of children.
Research Interest
Dr. Jenkins' main area of work is about understanding emotion processes in children and in family life that help us to understand psychopathology in children.
