Rebecca Matthews

Research Assistant

Expertise

• Child and Adolescent Assessment
• Child and Family Intervention
• School-based Intervention

Biography

Rebecca E. Matthews is a Research Assistant at the 3-C Institute for Social Development where her focus is curriculum development, project management, and data collection and entry for feasibility and efficacy trials. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she worked for 2 years on a project examining neuropsychological functioning in individuals at-risk for schizophrenia. She also interned at Family Service of the Piedmont in Greensboro, NC where she implemented a classroom-based bully prevention program.

She is currently a fourth year doctoral candidate in the School Psychology program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Education through the department of Human Development and Psychological Studies. She has completed two years of practicum experience in Alamance-Burlington and Guilford County School Systems where she was trained in academic, intellectual, social, behavioral, and emotional assessments, consultation, and individual, classroom, and school-wide interventions. In the third year of her doctoral program, she expanded her assessment and intervention skills through a practicum at the Child Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic at Dorothea Dix in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was trained in play therapy for children, child and family therapy, and projective assessments. In her fourth year, she will complete an externship at John Umstead Hospital in Butner, NC in the adolescent inpatient unit. This externship will extend her training in projective assessments and individual and group therapy. This year, she will begin her doctoral dissertation, focusing on characteristics of parents of children with High Functioning Autism.