Ashlin Ondrusek (she/her) is a first year graduate student in the Clinical program. She graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South in 2019 with a BA in Psychology and a double minor in Spanish and Dance. Throughout her undergraduate experience she served an elected officer and eventual President of the university’s largest student-led dance organization and additionally worked as a co-leader of a disordered eating intervention program for freshman women. During her junior year she studied abroad in Chile and designed and carried out an independent study learning about Intercultural Health through a specific indigenous perspective. After graduation, she took a role with her previous internship advisor as a Postgraduate Associate at the Yale Child Study Center on an R01 grant assessing the efficacy of a socio-emotional learning intervention in preschools around Connecticut. A year later she accepted an opportunity to work in Dr. Trace Kershaw’s ENRICH lab working directly with community health and substance use. In this role, as Research Assistant at the Yale School of Public Health, she worked on “Project Renew,” an NIAAA-funded R01 study exploring the ways in which social networks and geographic spaces influence individual experiences in treatment and recovery utilizing ecological momentary assessment through an app and staff-conducted clinical interviews. Working in this lab, she found her passion, working with folks with histories of substance use disorder and trauma. In the summer of 2022, she took a role as Project Coordinator for the University of Georgia site with the Project Renew study. Her research and life experience have evolved to focus on understanding the etiology of substance use disorder and novel intervention development, particularly regarding populations with histories of trauma. She’s very excited to begin working in the B-SMART lab with Dr. Dennis McChargue working with populations who use substances and exploring embodied intervention development. In her free time, she loves dancing, teaching yoga, playing animal crossing, and hiking with her fiancé Jack and her dog Maggie.
Viera, A., Ondrusek, A. R., Tengatenga, C., McBurney, E., Lauckner, J., Tran, E., Muilenburg, J., Kershaw, T., & Lauckner, C. (2024). A Qualitative Exploration of Attitudes tward Global Positioning System Tracking and Ecological Momentary Assessment Among Individuals in Substance Use Treatment. Substance Use & Addiction Journal, 9767342231218514.
Bailey, C. S., Ondrusek, A. R., Curby, T. W., & Denham, S. A. (2022). Teachers’ consistency of emotional support moderates the association between young children's regulation capacities and their preschool adjustment. Psychology in the Schools, 59(6), 1051-1074.
Presentations & Posters:
Ondrusek, A. R.*, Viera, A., Vinson, E., Kershaw, T., & Muilenburg, J. L. (November 2022). Study Recruitment and Retention in the time of COVID-19. Poster presented at American Public Health Association annual meeting (APHA), Boston, MA.
Viera, A., Ondrusek A. R.*, Tengatenga, C., McBurney, E., Lauckner, J., Tran, E., Richey, J., Simon, C., Lauckner, C., Muilenberg, J., Kershaw, T. (November 2021) Attitudes of individuals in substance use treatment towards the use of mobile phone technology and GPS tracking in research on substance use disorders. Virtual oral presentation for The Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction (AMERSA).
Ondrusek, A. R.*, Townsend, E., Warnock C., Muilenberg J., Kershaw, T. (October 2021). Impact of COVID-19 Isolation on individuals in treatment for substance use. Accepted for oral presentation at American Public Health Association annual meeting (APHA), Denver, CO.
Warnock, C. A.*, Viera, A., Townsend, E., Coffman, R., Ondrusek, A.,Kershaw, T., & Muilenburg, J. L. (October 2021). "What's missing is the person": Treatment and recovery support disruption during COVID-19 among people in treatment for substance use. Poster presented at Addiction Health Services Research Conference.
Viera, A., Ondrusek A. R.*, Tengatenga, C., McBurney, E., Lauckner, J., Tran, E., Richey, J., Simon, C., Lauckner, C., Muilenberg, J., Kershaw, T. (June 2021) Use of mobile technology to support recovery from substance use disorders. Poster presented at College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD).
Ondrusek A. R.*, Willner, C., Nicholls, S., Jensen F., & Crowley M. J. (June 2020). Adolescent Self-Compassion: A Scale Validation Study. Poster presented at the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute.
Ondrusek, A. R.*, Bailey C. S., (April 2020). Teacher’s consistency of emotional support predicts academic readiness. Manuscript presented at Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence Spring Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Ondrusek, A. R.*, Coffey, J., & Bailey, C. S. (April 2019). Updating a test of preschool Emotion knowledge. Poster presented at Undergraduate Research Symposium Scholarship Sewanee at The University of the South, TN.
Ondrusek, A. R.*, Bailey, C. S., & Kadden S., (July 2018). How do you know what you feel? Teaching Emotions to the Next Generation. Poster presented at Yale University Summer Intern Symposium at Yale University Medical School, New Haven, CT.
Ondrusek, A. R.*, Eoff H., Flythe D., Lee G., Troisi, J., (April 2018). Friendship and Consumption. Poster presented at Undergraduate Research Symposium Scholarship Sewanee at The University of the South, TN.
Ondrusek, A. R.*, & Tricot V. (December 2017). Salud Intercultural. Paper presented at School for International Training Research Symposium in Valparaíso, Chile.