Biography:

Jennifer Khoury received her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2017. Jennifer is currently completing a post-doctoral fellowship through Cambridge Hospital
at Harvard Medical School. Jennifer’s research and clinical training has focused on the
early biological and social influences on development, both typical and atypical,
beginning in infancy and spanning to later childhood. She completed her pre-doctoral
internship at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Her dissertation utilized a
multi-method design, including diverse laboratory stressors, measurement of two
interrelated neurobiological systems, and assessment of acute and long-term stress in
relation to child depression. Jennifer’s current work continues to examine stress
neurobiology, with a particular focus on the neuroendocrine stress system, in a sample of
high-risk mother-infant dyads. This research examines the complex associations between
maternal history of maltreatment, maternal-infant interactions, and maternal and infant
neuroendocrine stress responses. Jennifer is particularly interested in using multi-method
longitudinal designs to examine biopsychosocial developmental trajectories, in hopes to
inform early intervention and prevention programs for mothers and their young children.

Publications:

1. England-Mason, G., Khoury, J. E., Atkinson, L., Hall, G., & Gonzalez, G. (in press).
   Attentional avoidance of emotional stimuli in postpartum women with history of childhood
   maltreatment and difficulties with emotion regulation. Emotion.
2. Fitzpatrick, S., Khoury, J. E., Kuo, J. R. (2018). Examining the relationship between
   emotion regulation deficits and borderline personality disorder. Psychology Quarterly,
   31(1), 42-58.
3.  England-Mason, G., Kimber, K., Khoury, J. E., Atkinson, L., MacMillan, H., & Gonzalez,
   G. (2017).  Difficulties with emotion regulation moderate the association between childhood
   history of maltreatment and cortisol reactivity in postpartum women. Hormones and
   Behaviour, 95, 44-56.
4. Atkinson, L., Jamieson, B., Khoury, J. E., Ludmer, J., & Gonzalez, A. (2016). Stress
   physiology in infancy and early childhood: Cortisol flexibility, attunement, and coordination.
   Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 28, 1-12. doi: 10.1111/jne.12408
5. Khoury, J. E., Gonzalez, A., Levitan, R., Masellis, M, Basile, V, & Atkinson, L. (2016).
   Maternal cortisol levels moderate the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and
   infant cortisol levels. Infant Mental Health Journal, 37, 125-139. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21554
6. Khoury, J. E., & Milligan, K. (2016). Comparing executive functioning in children and
   adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
   Disorder: A meta-analysis. Journal of Attention Disorders. doi: 10.1177/1087054715622016.
7. Khoury, J. E., Milligan, K., & Girard, T. (2015). Executive functioning in children and
   adolescents prenatally exposed to alcohol: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review, 25,
   149-170. doi: 10.1007/s11065-015- 9289-6.
8. Khoury, J. E., Gonzalez, A., Levitan, R., Masellis, M., Basile, V., & Atkinson, L. (2015).
   Infant emotion regulation strategy moderates relations between self-reported maternal
   depressive symptoms and infant cortisol reactivity. Infant and Child Development, 25, 64-83.
   doi:10.1002/icd.1916
9. Khoury, J. E., Gonzalez, A., Levitan, R., Goodwill, A., Masellis, M., Basile, V., &
   Atkinson, L. (2015). Summary cortisol reactivity indicators: interrelations and meaning.
   Neurobiology of Stress, 2, 34-43. doi:10.1016/j.ynstr.2015.04.0024.
10. Milligan, K., Khoury, J. E., Benoit, D. & Atkinson, L. (2015). Maternal attachment and
    mind-mindedness: The role of emotional context. Attachment and Human Development, 17,
    302-318. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2014.996573.
11. Kuo, J. R., Khoury, J. E., Metcalfe, R., Fitzpatrick, S., & Goodwill, A. (2015). An
    examination of the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and Borderline
    Personality Disorder severity: The mediating role of difficulties with emotion regulation.
    Child Abuse and Neglect: An International Journal, 39, 147-155. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.08.008.
12. Atkinson, L., Beitchman, J., Gonzalez, J., Young, A. Wilson, B., Escobar, B., Chisholm, V.
    Brownlie, E. B., Khoury, J. E., Ludmer, J., & Villani, V. (2015). Cumulative risk,
    cumulative outcome: A 20-year longitudinal study. PLoS ONE, 10, e0127650. doi:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0127650.