Amy Heberle
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Scholarly Interests
child and adolescent mental health in relation to economic and racial marginalization, oppression, and bias; impacts of parent/peer/teacher socialization on coping in these contexts; interventions to promote more equitable outcomes for marginalized children and families
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Dr. Heberle is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Clark University. She received an A.B. in English from Harvard University in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2017. She completed her clinical internship at Yale University and her postdoctoral training at Boston College. Dr. Heberle has been at Clark since 2018.
Dr. Heberle’s research focuses on children’s mental health functioning within systems of racism and classism. She is interested in how children and families think about their own identities within social systems, how they resist oppression, and how they thrive in spite of oppression. Related to these interests, she has studied early education programs, school-based student support programs, and sociopolitical constructs like critical consciousness. She is also interested in interpersonal strategies that support thriving for marginalized and oppressed children through parent-child, teacher-child, and child-child relationships. In addition, she is interested in allyship development among children holding positions of privilege and in theoretical considerations related to allyship/accomplice-ship as indicators of social-emotional wellness for such children. Within this area of research, Dr. Heberle and her collaborators have developed and are currently testing a model for supporting White parents who aspire to engage in authentic, active anti-racist parenting with their young children. In addition to her other interests, Dr. Heberle maintains a strong interest in early childhood mental health particularly as it relates to trauma and poverty. She uses a range of qualitative and quantitative methods in her research. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the American Psychological Association.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2017
- M.A. in Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2013
- B.A. in English Literature, Harvard University, 2009
Affiliated Department(s)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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How White Parents of White Children can Embrace Color-Brave Caregiving
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2023
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Critical Consciousness: Expanding Theory and Measurement.
Chapter: Critical consciousness in early to middle childhoodPublished by Cambridge University Press
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2023
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Published in Early Education and Care
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2023
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Vol. 34
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Issue #2
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International Models of Changemaker Education: Programs, Methods, and Design
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2022
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Adolescent Mental Health in Relation to Anti Racism Critical Action
Published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
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2022
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Vol. 51
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Issue #5
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Published in Research in Human Development
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2021
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Vol. 18
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Issue #1
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Published in Journal of Social Issues
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2020
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Experiences of clinicians implementing integrated student support in high-poverty schools
Published in Improving Schools
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2020
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Published in Psychological Bulletin
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2020
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Is poverty on young minds? Stereotype endorsement, disadvantage awareness, and social-emotional challenges in socioeconomically disadvantaged children.
Published in Developmental Psychology
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2020
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Vol. 56
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Issue #2
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Young children's stereotype endorsement about people in poverty: Age and economic status effects
Published in Children and Youth Services Review
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2020
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Vol. 108
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Published in Journal of Child and Family Studies
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2019
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Vol. 28
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Issue #11
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The Hazy Fog of Classism: Where the Middle-Class White Parents of Young White Children Get Lost in their Anti-Racist Parenting Aspirations
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Awards & Grants
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A Pilot Study of Key Elements in an in an Intervention to Support Anti-Racist Parenting Among White Parents
Clark Faculty Development Fund
Jun. 1, 2021 - May. 31, 2022
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A Mixed Methods Pilot Study of a Multi-Modal Intervention to Support Anti-Racist Parenting Among White Parents
Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD)
Jul. 1, 2021
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Measurement of Parent and Teacher Critical Consciousness
Spencer Foundation
Aug. 31, 2021
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SSHD Erin Phelps Award for best paper published in Research in Human Development in the last two years
Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD)
2021
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Outstanding Graduate Mentoring/Advising Award
Clark University
2022
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