Degrees:
2019, PhD in Psychology (Clinical Stream), Toronto Metropolitan  University
2014, MA in Psychology (Clinical Stream), Toronto Metropolitan University
2012, BA (Honours) in Psychology, McGill University

Research Interests:
Kathleen’s research interests are in the cognitive mechanisms that lead to the development and maintenance of pathological worry. In her Master’s thesis, she developed a model of the role of working memory in generalized anxiety disorder and tested the effects of worrying on working memory and information processing in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder. In her dissertation, Kathleen is examining the efficacy and mechanism of change of a worry postponement intervention in people with generalized anxiety disorder.

Selected Publications:
Malivoire, B., Marcos, M., Pawluk, E.J.P., Tallon, K., Kusec, A., & Koerner, N. (in press). Negative urgency, intolerance of uncertainty and their unique associations with interpretation bias in individuals high in generalized anxiety disorder symptoms. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Malivoire, B., Stewart, K.E., Tallon, K., Ovanessian, M.M., Pawluk, E.J., & Koerner, N. (in press). Negative urgency and generalized anxiety disorder symptom severity: The role of self-reported cognitive processes. Personality and Individual Differences.

Tallon, K., Koerner, N., & Yang, L. (2016). Working memory in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Effects of verbal and image-based worry and relation to cognitive and emotional processes. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7, 72-94. doi:10.5127/jep.045714

Koerner, N., Tallon, K., & Kusec, A. (2015). Maladaptive core beliefs and their relation to generalized anxiety disorder. Advanced online publication. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. doi:10.1080/16506073.2015.1042989

Selected Presentations:
Tallon, K., Stratton, N., Tulloch, T. G., Faaborg-Andersen, M., Kidwai, A., Vernon, J. R. G., O’Cleirigh, C., Antony, M. M., & Hart, T. A. (2016, October). The Effects of Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Social Anxiety on Symptoms of Social Anxiety, Depression, and Problematic Alcohol Use in Gay and Bisexual Men. Poster presented at the meeting of the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Tallon K., Ovanessian, M. & Koerner, N. (2016, May). Imaging ability in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Poster, Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Hamilton, ON.

Tallon, K., Carleton, N., Gavric, D., MacDonald, E., Milosevic, I., & Dozois, D. (June, 2015). Introduction and summary. In Kathleen Tallon (Chair), Advances in transdiagnostic approaches to understanding and treating psychopathology. Symposium, the Canadian Psychological Association Convention 2015, Ottawa, ON.