Aubrey J. Rodriguez, M.A.
Doctoral CandidatePre-Doctoral Psychology Intern
University of Southern CaliforniaSouthern Arizona VA Health Care System
Department of PsychologyMental Health Care Line, Building 90
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061Tucson, AZ 85723
Education
CurrentPh.D. Candidate in Psychology (degree conferral August 2016)
University of Southern California
Clinical Science, Child and Family Track
Faculty Advisor: Gayla Margolin
Dissertation: Parental military service and adolescent mental and behavioral health: The role of adolescent-civilian parent interactions
2010Master of Arts in Psychology
University of Southern California
Faculty Advisor: Gayla Margolin
Thesis: Couples’ neuroendocrine activity in response to family conflict discussions: The role of self-reported anger and previous marital aggression
2008Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, with Honors
Bachelor of Science in Family Studies & Human Development
University of Arizona
Honors Thesis Advisor: Matthias R. Mehl
Honors Thesis: Judgment of subclinical depression in private and public self-descriptions
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Arbel, R., Rodriguez, A. J., & Margolin, G. (Sept 7, 2015). Cortisol reactions during family conflict discussions: Influences of wives’ and husbands’ exposure to family-of-origin aggression.Psychology of Violence. Online first publication.
Rodriguez, A.J. & Margolin, G. (2015). Military service absences and family members' mental health: A timeline followback assessment.Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 642-648.
Rodriguez, A. J. & Margolin, G. (2015). Parental incarceration, transnational migration, and military deployment: Family process mechanisms of youth adjustment to temporary parent absence.Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 18, 24-49.
Saxbe, D.E., Ramos, M.C., Timmons, A.R., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2014). A path modeling approach to understanding family conflict: Reciprocal patterns of parent coercion and adolescent avoidance. Journal of Family Psychology, 28, 45-420.
Saxbe, D.E., Margolin, G., Spies, L. A., Iturralde, E.M., Rodriguez, A.J., & Ramos, M.C. (2014). Relative influences: Patterns of HPA axis concordance during triadic family interaction. Health Psychology, 33, 273-281.
Rodriguez, A.J. & Margolin, G. (2013). Wives' and husbands' cortisol reactivity to proximal and distal dimensions of couple conflict. Family Process, 52, 555-569.
Saxbe, D.E., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2012). Understanding family conflict: Theoretical frameworks and directions for future research. In M.A. Fine & F.D. Fincham (Eds.) Family theories: A content-based approach (pp. 169-189). New York: Routledge.
Rodriguez, A.J. & Margolin, G. (2011). Siblingsof military servicemembers: A qualitative exploration of individual and family systems reactions. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 42, 316-323.
Rodriguez, A.J., Holleran, S.E., & Mehl, M.R. (2010). Reading between the lines: The lay assessment of subclinical depression from written self-descriptions. Journal of Personality, 78, 575-598.
Papers Under Review and In Preparation
Cederbaum, J.A., Rodriguez, A.J., Gray, K., & Sullivan, K. (under review). Attitudes, norms and the effect of school-based social support on adolescent sexual risk intention.
Rodriguez, A. J.& Margolin, G. (in preparation). Stepping up, sticking together: Military adolescents’ support of their civilian parents and concurrent depression symptoms.
Rodriguez, A. J., Kellerman, I., Ramos, M. C., & Margolin, G. (in preparation). Parental depressive symptoms and communication with children: Across-spouse influences and contextual moderators.
Grants & Funding Received
11/2011-03/2015 National Institute of Mental Health
Pre-doctoral Individual Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award F31.
Grant F31MH094035 “Parental Military Deployment and Adolescent Mental/Behavioral Health” $113,565
05/2014 American Psychological Foundation
Randy Gerson Memorial Grant
“Temporary Parental Absence Due to Military Deployment: Family Emotion Process and Mental Health” $6,000
07/2012 Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation
Doctoral Dissertation Grant $5,000
2011, 2013, 2014USC Department of Psychology
Conference Travel Grant
2010, 2011USC Department of Psychology
Summer Research Award $5,000
Selected Honors & Awards
2014USC Clinical Science Gerald C. Davison Writing Awardfor
“Wives' and husbands' cortisol reactivity to proximal and distal dimensions of couple conflict”
2013NCFR Families and Health Section Student/New Professional Paper Award for “Wives' and husbands' cortisol reactivity to proximal and distal dimensions of couple conflict”
2008University of Arizona Psychology Department Outstanding Senior
2008 Phi Beta Kappa Society
2006–2008 Psi Chi National Psychology Honorary
2005–2008 University of Arizona Dean’s List with Distinction
2004 National Merit Scholar
Conference Presentations
Cederbaum, J. A., Rodriguez, A.J., Gray, K., & Sullivan, K.(2014). Parent sex communication, support from other adults, and adolescent sex intentions. National Council on Family Relations Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Saxbe, D.E., Margolin, G., Shapiro, L. A. S., Rodriguez, A.J., & Ramos, M.C. (2014). Triadic coregulation of cortisol within parents and adolescents engaged in family conflict. Paper Symposium, Physiological Coregulation And Influences In Family Relationships. Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Arbel, R., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2014). Aggression in the family-of-origin and couples‘ physiological reactions to a family conflict. Paper symposium, Family Violence Exposure and Everyday Family Interactions: Behavioral, Neural, and Physiological Findings. Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Saxbe, D., Ramos, M.C., Iturralde, E., Shapiro, L.S., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2013). Conflict and synchrony: Understanding within-family patterns of HPA axis activation during family conflict. Paper symposium, Mechanisms and Moderators of the Relation between Family Conflict and Children’s Health. Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Seattle, WA.
Rodriguez, A.J., Saxbe, D. E., Spies, L.A., & Margolin, G. (2011). Coregulation of HPA axis responses in triadic family conflict. Paper symposium, Physiological linkage: What it is, when it occurs, and why it matters. Society for Psychophysiological Research Conference, Boston, MA.
Conference Posters
Rodriguez, A.J. & Margolin, G. (2015). Military service and family member mental health: Impacts of occupational hazard, cumulative absence, and contact on spouses and adolescents. Society for Research on Child Development Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Pettit, C., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2015). Coping among military adolescents: Effects of mother-adolescent communication and deployment-related stressors. Society for Research on Child Development Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Ramos, M.C., Timmons, A., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2015). Parent-youth coalitions during family conflict: A time-lagged model of antecedents, consequences & links with family aggression. Society for Research on Child Development Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Rodriguez, A.J., Kellerman, I., Ramos, M.C., & Margolin, G. (2014). Parental depression and criticism of children: Across-spouse influences and contextual moderators.Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Letourneau, M., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2014). Early adolescents’ perceptions of positive parenting predict positive conflict management at mid-adolescence.Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Burgess, C., Bautista, R., Rodriguez, A.J., McArdle, J., & Margolin, G. (2014). Proximal and distal violence exposure’s effect on adolescent antisocial behaviors. Western Psychological Association Conference, Portland, OR.
Rodriguez, A.J., Ramos, M.C., Kellerman, I., Borofsky, L.A., & Margolin, M. (2014).Behavioral mechanisms of transmission of parental psychopathology to adolescents: Within- and across-parent pathways. Society for Researchon Adolescence Conference, Austin, TX.
Letourneau, M., Rodriguez, A.J., & Margolin, G. (2014).Military life: Effects of frequency of deployment and relocation on adolescents’ psychosocial symptoms and relationships with parents. Society for Researchon Adolescence Conference, Austin, TX.
Kellerman, I., Rodriguez, A.J., Ramos, M.C., Massoud, C, & Margolin, M. (2014).Dismissive communication patterns among family members: Links with adolescent internalizing symptoms. Society for Researchon Adolescence Conference, Austin, TX.
Ramos, M.C., Timmons, A., Rodriguez, A.J. & Margolin, M. (2014).Observed marital conflict and parent-adolescent coalitions during triadic interaction: Links with family violence history and later youth symptoms. Society for Researchon Adolescence Conference, Austin, TX.
Rodriguez, A.J., Massoud, C., Ramos, M.C., & Margolin, G. (2013). Parents’ depression and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Links to observed parent and adolescent behavior during family conflict. Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Seattle, WA.
Ramos, M.C., Rodriguez, A.J., & Massoud, C.M. (2012). Observed parent-adolescent behaviors during triadic family discussion: The role of cumulative family violence exposure. Society for Research in Adolescence Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Rodriguez, A.J., Ramos, M.C., Guran, E., Bennett, D., Schnaps, E., Kellerman, I., Borofsky, L.A., & Margolin, G. (2011). Observed parental behavior at middle adolescence, family aggression, and youth alcohol use from middle to late adolescence. Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Rodriguez, A.J. & Margolin, G.(2011). Couples’ neuroendocrine activity in response to family conflict discussions.Western Psychological Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Holleran, S.E., Rodriguez, A.J., & Mehl, M.R. (2009). Judgments of Sub-clinical Depression Based on Private and Public Self-Descriptions. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Tampa, FL.
Classroom Teaching Experience (USC)
04/8/2013Guest Lecturer, Culture and Mental Health (PSYC 462)
Lecture: “Military culture & military mental health”
12/8/2012Guest Lecturer,Psychology of Marriage and the Family (PSYC 464)
Lecture: “Military Families”
Fall 2011Teaching Assistant, Adolescent Development (PSYC 437)
Spring 2011Teaching Assistant, Research Methods (PSYC 314L)
2 laboratory sections
Fall 2010Teaching Assistant, Psychology of Marriage and the Family (PSYC 464)
11/18/2010Guest Lecturer,Psychology of Marriage and the Family (PSYC 464)
Lecture: “Military Families”
Fall 2009-Teaching Assistant, Psychology Department Subject Pool Coordinator
Spring 2010
Research Experience
2012 – presentUSC Military Families Study (dissertation research)
Principal Investigator/Interviewer
Faculty Mentors: Gayla Margolin and Ron Avi Astor
- Designed, obtained funding, collected data, developed coding system/procedures
- Conducted in-home interviews with 80 active-duty military families
2009 – presentUSC Family Studies Project
Graduate Student Experimenter
Faculty Advisor: Gayla Margolin
- Assisted in two waves of longitudinal data collection, analyzed data
- Created observational coding system for family discussions at mid-adolescence
2012-2013Building Capacity in Military Connected Schools
Graduate Student Researcher & Outreach Presenter
Faculty Advisor: Ron Avi Astor
- Participated in biweekly research team meetings
- DoDEA-funded school-based research and intervention consortium in Southern California military-connected schools
- Provided research-based presentations on mental health and development topics to parent groups at consortium schools
2006-2008Health, Personality, and Social Relationships Lab
University of Arizona
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Faculty Advisor: Matthias R. Mehl
- Coded, and analyzed data for studies using the Electronically-Activated Recorder to assess naturalistic language in individuals coping with rheumatoid arthritis and couples coping with breast cancer.
- Completed independent research projects: social media music preference statements and music listening behavior, honors thesis project.
Research Supervisory Experience
08/2015- presentUSC Psychology Honors Thesis
Graduate Student Supervisor
Undergraduate Mentee: C. Pettit
Supervising completion of honors thesis utilizing dissertation data: influences of stressful life events and social support on military adolescent mental health.
05/2014-08/2014USC Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF)
Graduate Student Supervisor
Undergraduate Mentee: C. Pettit
Supervised poster submission and presentationat the 2015 Society for Research on Child Development Conference.
08/2013-05/2014Graduate Student Supervisor
Postbaccalaureate Mentee: M. Letourneau
Supervised poster submissions and presentationsat the 2014 Society for Research on Adolescence and Association for Psychological Science Conferences.
01/2014-05/2014Undergraduate Directed Biomedical Research (MEDS 490)
Graduate Student Supervisor
Undergraduate Mentee: N. Jariwalla
Supervised poster presentation for independent project based on coded data.
08/2011-12/2011Undergraduate Directed Psychology Research (PSYC 490)
Graduate Student Supervisor
Undergraduate Mentee: G. Montag
Supervised writing of critical literature review on effects of posttraumatic stress disorder on active-duty/veteran military couples.
Supervised Clinical Experience
07/2015 – presentSouthern Arizona VA Health Care System,
Pre-Doctoral Psychology Intern
Supervisors: D. Beil-Adaskin, H. Brister, N. Cole, S. Hitt, M. Moore
- Rotations: General Mental Health (current, with emphasis on couple/family therapy); PTSD/Substance Use Disorders (scheduled January-July 2016)
- Evidence-Based Therapies Delivered: Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Mindfulness Stress Reduction (group), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (group & individual), Anger Management (group), Support and Family Education for PTSD (group), Prolonged Exposure, Seeking Safety (group), SMART recovery (group)
08/2009–07/2014USC Psychology Services Center
Graduate Student Psychotherapist
Supervisors: C. Bailey, R. Chopp, S. Couture, V. Credidio, G. Margolin, B.-J. Shen, and S. Lopez
- Format: Group, Individual Adult/Child, Couple/Family
- Orientations: Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral, Family Systems, Interpersonal,Solution-Focused, and Strategic/Paradoxical
- Presenting Concerns: Social phobia, panic disorder, major depression, PTSD, hypochondriasis, OCD, GAD, family conflict, stepfamily/post-divorce relationships
11/2013 – 04/2014 Immaculate Conception School, Los Angeles
Graduate Student Assessor
Supervisor: L. Macbeth
- Psychoeducational testing in school setting
- Referral question: Learning Disorders
07/2009-08/2013 USC Psychology Services Center
Graduate Student Assessor
Supervisors: C. Bailey, C. Delsol, and C. McCleary
- Psychoeducational and neuropsychological testing (adult & child)
- Referral questions: ADHD, Learning Disorders, post-stroke functioning
08/2010 – 04/2012 City Year Los Angeles Psychological Services Partnership
Graduate Student Psychotherapist
Supervisor: D. Saxbe
- Services provided to City Year (Americorps) team members and leadership
- Format: Individual therapy, outreach workshops
- Presenting concerns: GAD, coping/stress reduction
01/2009 – 07/2009 Bienvenidos Children’s Center, Montebello, CA
Graduate Student Assessor
Supervisors: B. Rush (Bienvenidos), L. R. Gore (USC)
- Psychoeducational/psychodiagnostic testing in community mental health center
- Referral questions: ADHD/LD diagnosis, anxiety/mood disorders
Clinical Supervisory Experience
09/2015 – presentSouthern Arizona VA Health Care System
Therapy Supervision
Supervisor: D. Beil-Adaskin
- Format: Video supervision of Social Work Intern
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
- Patient diagnoses: Major Depression with psychotic features, GAD
04/2013 – 07/2013USC Psychology Services Center
Child Assessment Clinical Supervision
Supervisor: D. Keenan-Miller
- Format: Live and video-supervision of first-year graduate student assessor
- Psychoeducational assessment of a teenaged client
- Referral question: Specific Learning Disorder, Mood Disorder
10/2009 – 11/2009USC Psychology Services Center
Assessment Peer Supervision
Supervisor: L. R. Gore
- Live supervision of a first-year graduate student assessor
- Supervised administration of the childhood intelligence test battery
Other Professional Activities and Memberships
11/2015Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Translational Issues in Psychological Science
08/2013, 03/2015,Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Family Psychology
12/2015
2012 –National Council on Family Relations
2010 –International Association for Relationship Research
2010 –Association for Psychological Science
2009 –Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology
2007 –American Psychological Association
Community Clinical Outreach Presentations
05/2013 “Common Childhood Behavioral Diagnoses: Detection and Intervention.”
North Terrace Elementary School, Oceanside, CA.
01/2013 “Top Tips for Teens: Banishing Bad Behavior & Building Bonds”
Valley High School, Escondido, CA.
09/2012 “Introducing a USC – City Year Los Angeles Partnership”
City Year Corps, Los Angeles, CA.
12/2011“Trauma: Definitions, Recognizing Risks, and Coping.”
City Year Corps, Los Angeles, CA.
05/2011“Endings: Reflecting on Experiences and Saying Goodbye”
City Year Corps, Los Angeles, CA.
11/2010 “Announcing a New USC – City Year Los Angeles Partnership.”
City Year Corps, Los Angeles, CA.
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