Anneke Olson
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Anneke's interests include identifying mechanisms and moderators in the relationship between experiences of maltreatment and psychological and behavioral outcomes, as well as developing prevention and treatment programs for children and families impacted by child maltreatment.
Anneke's research interests broadly include: 1) the identification of mechanisms and moderators in the relationship between experiences of maltreatment and psychiatric and behavioral outcomes, as well as, 2) the development and evaluation of prevention and treatment programs for the children and families impacted by child maltreatment. She is especially interested in individual competencies (e.g. emotion regulation) and the role of family relationships (i.e. parent-child relationships and sibling relationships) as potential targets for intervention. Furthermore, she is interested in observational methodology as a means to rigorously assess these family relationships.
Awards and honors:
- NIH NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship (2022-present)
- Joachim Wohlwill Endowment (2023)
- Child Maltreatment T32 Predoctoral Fellow (2020-2022)
- Douglas Research Endowment (2020, 2023)
- Hintz Scholarship (2018)
Departmental roles:
- Faculty Representative, HDFS Graduate Student Steering Committee (2021-2022)
- Co-Chair, HDFS Graduate Student Steering Committee (2020-2021)
- Community Service Chair, HDFS Graduate Student Steering Committee (2019-2020)
Teaching roles:
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, HDFS/CMAS 258: Intro to Child Maltreatment and Advocacy Studies (2021)
- Zhang, Z., Moeckel1, C., Mustafa, M., Hung, P., Olson, A.E., Mehta, D., Dorn, L.D., Engeland, C.G., Shenk, C.E.(in press). Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Depressive and Anxiety Symptom Severity following Exposure to Substantiated Child Maltreatment. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
- Olson, A.E., Chow, S.M., Jones, D.E., Shenk, C.E. (2023). Child Maltreatment, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Parental Monitoring in Relation to Adolescent Behavior Problems: Disaggregating Between and Within Person Effects. Child Abuse and Neglect.
- Shenk, C.E., Allen, B., Dreschel, N.A., Wang, M., Felt, J.M., Brown, M.P., Bucher, A.M., Chen, M.J., Olson, A.E (2022). Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Change during Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Results from a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
- Shenk, C.E., Keeshin, B., Bensman, H. E, Olson, A.E., Allen, B. (2021). Behavioral and Pharmacological Interventions for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Maltreatment. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior.
- Olson, A.E., Shenk, C.E., Noll, J. G., Allen, B. (2021). Child Maltreatment and Substance Use in Young Adulthood: Testing Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors at the Transition to Adolescence as Indirect Pathways. Child Maltreatment.
- Shenk, C.E., Rausch, J.R., Shores, K.A., Allen, E.K. Olson, A.E. (2021). Contamination in child maltreatment research: Impact on effect size estimates for child behavior problems measured throughout childhood and adolescence. Development and Psychopathology.
- Shenk, C.E., O’Donnell, K.J., Pokhvisneva, I., Kobor, M.S., Meaney, M.J., Bensman, H.E., Allen, E.K., & Olson, A.E. (2021). Epigenetic age acceleration and risk for posttraumatic stress disorder following exposure to substantiated child maltreatment. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
- DePasquale, C. E., Olson, A., Desjardins, C.D., Bruce, J., Pears, K. C., Gunnar, M, & Fisher, P. A. (2019). Exploring the Psychometric Properties of the Parent Daily Report Questionnaire—Toddler Version (PDR-T). International Journal of Behavioral Development.
- Olson, A.E., Kim, H.K., Bruce, J., & Fisher, P.A. (2019). Brief Report: General Cognitive Ability as an Early Indicator of Problem Behavior Among Toddlers in Foster Care. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.