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    Kimberly S. Canter, PhD

    Clinical Psychologist
    Provider Profile

    ֲý Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803

    Biography

    Kimberly Canter, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist in the ֲý Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University. She is also the Core Director for the Intervention Methodology: Connection and Provision through Technology (IMPACT) Core of the Research Expanding Access to Child Health (REACH) Center, a federal Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. Dr. Canter received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, where she was a Shipman Scholar and graduated with Honors in Psychology and Social Anthropology. She received her doctorate in 2015 from the University of Kansas in Clinical Child Psychology. Dr. Canter conducts research focused on reducing psychosocial risk and preventing posttraumatic stress for families of children with chronic illnesses, including cancer and cystic fibrosis. She has a program of research in digital health, developing and testing psychosocial interventions for parents of children with chronic illnesses. Dr. Canter has a specific interest in research focused on reducing health inequities and improving access to high-quality psychosocial care for individuals from historically underrepresented and minoritized groups. Dr. Canter also supervises and mentors multidisciplinary trainees and junior investigators through her roles in the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and REACH Center. She frequently presents at scientific conferences and serves on several committees within ֲý and nationally.

    Fellowship

    • Clinical Psychology - ֲý Children's Hospital, Delaware, 2017

    Internship

    • Clinical Psychology - ֲý/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, 2015

    Education

    • PhD - University of Kansas, 2015

    • Behavioral And Mental Health
    • Cystic Fibrosis
    • Digital Health
    • Oncology
    • Psychosocial Interventions

    • Screening for food insecurity and mental health needs during the early days of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A patient experience project to meet an urgent clinical need; Pediatric Pulmonology; (2024).

    • Partnership With Patient Advocacy Organizations Improves Research Recruitment; Pediatric Blood & Cancer; (2024).

    • Acceptability and feasibility of a brief behavioral sleep intervention for youth with CF; Journal of Cystic Fibrosis; (2023).

    • The Electronic Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program—a Psychosocial Digital Health Intervention for English- and Spanish-Speaking Parents of Children With Cancer: Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint); Unknown Source; (2023).

    • Acceptability and Feasibility of eSCCIP: Results From a Pilot Study of the Electronic Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2023).

    • The Electronic Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program—a Psychosocial Digital Health Intervention for English- and Spanish-Speaking Parents of Children With Cancer: Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trial; JMIR Research Protocols; (2023).

    • A Qualitative Exploration of Sleep Habits and Intervention Needs Among Youth with Cystic Fibrosis; Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings; (2022).

    • A community-based trial of a psychosocial eHealth intervention for parents of children with cancer; Pediatric Blood and Cancer; (2022).

    • Validation of the COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2022).

    • COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales for Adolescents and Young Adults; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2022).

    • ESCCIP-SP: Adapting an ehealth intervention for spanish-speaking parents of children with cancer.; Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology; (2022).

    • COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales: Factor Structure and Initial Psychometrics; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2021).

    • Pediatric Psychosocial Standards of Care in action: Research that bridges the gap from need to implementation; Psycho-Oncology; (2020).

    • The impact of pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant timing and psychosocial factors on family and caregiver adjustment; Pediatric Blood & Cancer; (2020).

    • Caregiver perspectives on psychosocial care in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT).; Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology; (2020).

    • Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention of Parents in Pediatric Psychosocial eHealth Interventions: A Qualitative Study in Pediatric Oncology; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2020).

    • The importance of fathers in pediatric research: These authors are on to something important; Translational Behavioral Medicine; (2019).

    • A psychosocial clinical care pathway for pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Pediatric Blood & Cancer; (2019).

    • eSCCIP: A psychosocial ehealth intervention for parents of children with cancer.; Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology; (2019).

    • Commentary: Reflecting on the History of Family Systems Work within the Field of Pediatric Psychology; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2019).

    • Families and the health care system.; APA handbook of contemporary family psychology: Applications and broad impact of family psychology (Vol. 2).; (2019).

    • Technology-Focused Family Interventions in Pediatric Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review; Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings; (2019).

    • Screening for Family Psychosocial Risk in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation with the Psychosocial Assessment Tool; Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation; (2019).

    • Delivery of care consistent with the psychosocial standards in pediatric cancer: Current practices in the United States; Pediatric Blood and Cancer; (2018).

    • Historical Analysis: The Journal of Pediatric Psychology from 1976 to 2015; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2018).

    • The multidisciplinary pediatric psycho-oncology workforce: A national report on supervision for staff and training opportunities; Psycho-Oncology; (2018).

    • Implementing the psychosocial standards in pediatric cancer: Current staffing and services available; Pediatric Blood and Cancer; (2017).

    • The role of health behaviors and food insecurity in predicting fruit and vegetable intake in low-income children; Children's Health Care; (2017).

    • Making the business case for coverage of family-based behavioral group interventions for pediatric obesity; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2016).

    • Self-Reported Emotion Reactivity Among Early-Adolescent Girls: Evidence for Convergent and Discriminant Validity in an Urban Community Sample; Behavior Therapy; (2016).

    • Vignette methodologies for studying clinicians' decision-making: Validity, utility, and application in ICD-11 field studies; International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology; (2015).

    • Resolving ethical lapses in the non-publication of dissertations; Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences; (2015).

    • Professional Psychology: Research and Practice; The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology; (2015).

    • The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Illness and Quality of Life for Children with Cancer and Healthy Siblings; Journal of Child and Family Studies; (2015).

    • Measurement of mealtime behaviors in rural overweight children: An exploratory factor analysis of the behavioral pediatrics feeding assessment scale; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2014).

    • The role of sleep in the relation between community violence exposure and delinquency among Latino adolescents; Journal of Community Psychology; (2014).

    • Relationship between camp attendance and self-perceptions in children with chronic health conditions: A meta-analysis; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2013).

    • Future Directions for Advancing Issues in Children's Mental Health: A Delphic Poll; Journal of Child and Family Studies; (2013).

    • An in-home intervention to improve nutrition, physical activity, and knowledge among low-income teen mothers and their children: Results from a pilot study; Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; (2013).

    • Anomalies in Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life: Using the PedsQL 4.0™ with Children Who Have Peanut Allergy and Their Parents; Applied Research in Quality of Life; (2013).

    • Six degrees of separation: An exploratory network analysis of mentoring relationships in pediatric psychology; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2012).

    • Perceived benefits of mentoring in pediatric psychology: A qualitative approach; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2012).

    • Commentary: A call to action to secure the future of pediatric psychology - Resonating to the points of Rozensky and Janicke (2012); Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2012).

    • A systematic and quantitative review of interventions to facilitate school reentry for children with chronic health conditions; Journal of Pediatric Psychology; (2012).

    • A Delphic Poll Regarding the Future of Children's Mental Health; PsycEXTRA Dataset; (2011).