Contact Information
M.A.
School and Applied Child Psychology
McGill University
e-mail : shayla.chilliak@gmail.com
Research Interests
Exploring the development of emotion regulation in autistic children, and interventions to improve emotion regulation. Impact of parenting on emotion regulation and related emotional and behavioral challenges.
Keywords: Emotion regulation, autism, early intervention, parenting
Publications
Conference Presentations
- Chilliak, S., Serravalle, L., & Ellenbogen, M. (2020, April 30). Borderline personality disorder symptoms in parents with bipolar disorder predict the prospective development of substance use symptoms in their offspring. Centre for Research in Development and Health Webinar Series.
- Martin-Storey, A., Santo, J. B., Recchia, H. E., Chilliak, S., Caetano Nardi, H., & Da Cunha, J. (2019, June 6-8). Gender identity and academic engagement: Variation in the role of risk and protective factors across race in a large-scale sample of Brazilian adolescents. 49th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Portland, Oregon, United States.
- Chilliak, S. (2010, April 8-12). Governmentality, surveillance, & the exception: Citizenship and immigration detention in Canada. Pacific Sociological Association Convention, Oakland CA, United States, April 2010.
Poster presentations
- Chilliak, S., Seravalle, L., & Ellenbogen, M. (2020, May 27-30). Parental bipolar disorder, parent personality, and offspring risk. [Poster presentation]. 81st Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Conference canceled due to Covid-19).
- Chilliak, S., Seravalle, L., & Ellenbogen, M. (2020, January 24). Environmental risk in children of parents with bipolar disorder: Examining the impact of parents’ borderline personality disorder symptoms and stressful life events. [Poster presentation]. Centre for Research in Development and Health Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Poulin-Dubois, D., Neumann, C., Chilliak, S., & Masoud, S. (2020, July 6-9). Inhibitory control and working memory in 16-month old bilingual and monolingual infants. [Poster presentation]. International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Masoud, S., Neumann, C., Chilliak, S., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2020, March 27-29). Contrôle de l’inhibition et de la mémoire du travail dans des nourissons monolingues et bilingues de 16 mois. [Poster presentation]. 42nd Annual Conference of the Société Québécoise pour la Recherche en Psychologie, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada. (Canceled due to Covid-19).
- Masoud, S., Neumann, C., Chilliak, S., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2020, January 24). Investigating the link between bilingualism and executive functioning in 16-month-old infants. [Poster presentation]. Centre for Research in Development and Health Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Chilliak, S., Neumann, C., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2019, September 13). Effects of bilingualism on toddlers’ executive functions. [Poster presentation]. Undergraduate Student Research Showcase, Montreal, QC.
- Chilliak, S., Khan, M., & O’Connor, R.(2019, May 31 – June 2). Socioeconomic status moderates the effect of impulsivity on negative alcohol consequences. [Poster presentation]. 80th Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Chilliak, S., Khan, M., & O’Connor, R.(2019, January). Socioeconomic status moderates the effect of impulsivity on negative alcohol consequences. [Poster presentation]. 6th Anuual Conference of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health Conference. Montreal, QC.