Leslie Atkinson
Professor
Scientific Director, Institute for Stress and Wellbeing Research
Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Toronto, Ontario
leslie.atkinson@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 6993
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Dr. Leslie Atkinson entered graduate school at York University with a strong interest in research and clinical work with developmentally atypical populations. His current research interests involve developmental psychopathology, the study of early biological, psychological, and social factors tha...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Leslie Atkinson entered graduate school at York University with a strong interest in research and clinical work with developmentally atypical populations. His current research interests involve developmental psychopathology, the study of early biological, psychological, and social factors that influence the course of development, typical and atypical. This interest is the result not only of his graduate training but of subsequent work at Whitby Psychiatric Hospital with adults with extreme mental health difficulties, Surrey Place Centre with children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Child, Youth, and Family Programme. His research at Whitby Psychiatric Hospital and Surrey Place Centre focused on psychometrics, the study of constructs and how best to measure them. His work in psychometrics has greatly influenced his subsequent research on development. In his lab, constructs are carefully defined and measured, typically multiple times, using varied methodologies, such that the possibility of error is reduced and the understanding of what is being measured is augmented.
Dr. Atkinson came to Toronto Metropolitan University in 2007. His current work focuses on the “root causes” of psychopathology, starting in infancy. He studies attachment, attention, emotion regulation, genetics and physiology, as these are influenced by development. In this regard, Dr. Atkinson’s lab collaborates with other psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, geneticists and physiologists in a truly multidisciplinary approach to developmental psychopathology.
Dr. Atkinson has been privileged to work with some genuinely extraordinary graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research assistants who embrace one or more aspects of this research and move it in fascinating directions. The courses he particularly enjoys teaching include Psychological Assessment, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, Child Behaviour Disorders, and Psychometrics.
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Dr. Atkinson came to Toronto Metropolitan University in 2007. His current work focuses on the “root causes” of psychopathology, starting in infancy. He studies attachment, attention, emotion regulation, genetics and physiology, as these are influenced by development. In this regard, Dr. Atkinson’s lab collaborates with other psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, geneticists and physiologists in a truly multidisciplinary approach to developmental psychopathology.
Dr. Atkinson has been privileged to work with some genuinely extraordinary graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research assistants who embrace one or more aspects of this research and move it in fascinating directions. The courses he particularly enjoys teaching include Psychological Assessment, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, Child Behaviour Disorders, and Psychometrics.
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