Past Lab Members

CAMP Lab Alumnae

Gina Erato Garza, Ph.D.

Gina Erato Garza graduated from Oklahoma State University’s Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in 2024 and completed her predoctoral internship at Brown University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Italian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2016. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the Child Stress and Coping Lab led by Dr. W. Hobart Davies, where she conducted her senior thesis on the relationships between mindfulness, parenting, and child behavior problems. After graduation, she worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in the Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinic. Gina’s research focuses on maternal mental health in the context of reproductive life events, particularly pregnancy loss. She is especially interested in studying miscarriages and stillbirths as traumatic events and investigating the psychological outcomes of women who experience pregnancy loss.

Sam Addante, Ph.D.

Sam graduated from Oklahoma State University's Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program under the mentorship of Lucia Ciciolla, Ph.D in 2023. Prior to attending OSU, Sam completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sam’s research focuses on examining family emotion-related processes from a developmental psychopathology framework. Sam is specifically interested in understanding the intergenerational transmission of trauma and its effects on a family’s psychosocial functioning. In addition, Sam is interested in investigating factors that may protect against the negative effects of transmission of trauma, such as emotion regulation skills.

Mira Armans, Ph.D.

Mira graduated from the Oklahoma State University Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in 2020 and is the first CAMP Lab Alumnae! Following graduation, she accepted a post-doc position as a Pediatric Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, FL. Mira finished her internship at Mailman Center for Child Development in August 2020. While at OSU, she was nominated as the Psychological Services Associate of the Year and has always been dedicated to her clinical work. Mira’s research interests broadly involve the impact of parenting strategies and parent-child interactions on child behavior and socioemotional development, cross-cultural approaches to understanding children and families, and risk and resilience factors impacting child development and family functioning. Her thesis and dissertation examined parenting support and discipline strategies among American Indian families and peer victimization, respectively. During her undergraduate career, Mira graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2014 with a BS in Psychology and an honor’s thesis examining parenting styles, and individuation, acculturation, and mental health in an Arabic-speaking emerging-adults sample.

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