Mentor: Judith Morgan, PhD
Dr. Taraban graduated in 2022 with her PhD in Clinical and Developmental Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She received her undergraduate degrees in psychology and English from the University of Texas at Austin, and completed her clinical internship in Pediatric Health Psychology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. She is currently a T32 post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry under the primary mentorship of Dr. Judith Morgan. Her research explores how stressors and protective factors in the family system influence early parenting behaviors, the parent-child relationship, and child social, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development.