CliF Lab Members

Psy.D. Students

Adrie Henry

Adrie is a third-year student in the Clinical Psychology Psy.D. program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After earning her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Hendrix College in 2014, she worked for two years in a forensic state hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Adrie joined the Clinical Forensic Psychology (CliF) Lab at IUP to explore her interests in campus sexual assault. Specifically, she is interested in perceptions of culpability and liability in these crimes and how different factors interact with victim blaming. Ultimately, Adrie would like to work with adolescents and families, potentially in a forensic context.

Katie Quinn

Katie Quinn is a doctoral candidate in IUP’s Clinical Psychology Psy.D. program. She graduated from the University of Maine in 2012 where she studied psychology and Spanish and graduated with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Maryland in 2014. Katie hopes to incorporate psychological assessment, psychotherapy, and teaching into her future career as a clinical psychologist. She is invested in contributing to the ongoing improvement of graduate-level training in psychology. Her current areas of interest include diagnostic and personality assessment, specifically how these assessments are applied to treatment planning and outcomes. She is also curious about the impact of linguistic and cultural factors on the development of psychological distress.

Alec Wierzbicki

Alec is a third-year doctoral student in the Psy.D. Program. In 2014, he graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Psychology. After college, Alec worked as a research assistant at UMASS Medical School providing quantitative and qualitative feedback for clinical teams as part of a wraparound treatment model for dually diagnosed offenders. Currently at IUP, Alec is involved in research investigating forensic clinician bias and adversarial allegiance. His broad academic interests include dual diagnosis treatment, post-traumatic stress among military populations, criminal responsibility evaluations, and ethics in psychology. After graduation, Alec intends to continue work in dual-diagnosis research with forensic populations and also pursue private clinical practice.

Undergraduate Students

Hannah Brouse

Hannah is a current senior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She double majors in psychology and sociology. At the moment, she is interested in developing her research skills via lab involvement and forming more expertise in the field of psychology in order to continue pursuing her future career path. Her goals include attending graduate school to earn a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Marlee McCadden

Marlee McCadden is a current senior studying Psychology, with minors in Spanish and Deaf Studies, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Marlee is a member of the Psychology Honors Program and the Robert E. Cook Honors College. Her current research involves assessing the stereotypical characteristics of child sexual abusers and the implications of those stereotypes. She is interested in forensic and abnormal psychology, specifically crime perceptions and criminal rehabilitation. After undergraduate, she would like to continue on to a graduate program to receive a Ph.D. or Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology.

CliF Lab Alumni

Gabrielle Kull (2017)

Krista Burket (2018)

M.A. Program, Counseling Psychology, West Virginia University

M.A. Program, School Counseling, California University of Pennsylvania