Gender Matters: Sommer Knight & Mayah Palmer

Join Sommer Knight and Mayah Palmer for a discussion on racialized health disparities in Clinical Psychology.

Sommer Knight is a Vanier Scholar and PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology at Carleton University. She previously completed her MSc in Psychiatry at McGill University. Her research interests are centered on mental health disparities, intersectionality, culture, and youth.

Mayah Palmer is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Queen’s University. Most psychological research on socialization of emotion in children thus far has traditionally characterized parental emotion socialization strategies as either “supportive” or “unsupportive” of adolescent health outcomes. This research, however, has been primarily conducted in White middle-class families where goals for socialization may differ in comparison to Black families given the context of racism and histories of oppression. Palmer’s research tested whether “unsupportive” emotion socialization strategies are viewed as maladaptive in Black families as it is in White families, by examining its links with adolescents’ perceptions of their parents’ supportiveness and adolescents’ longitudinal health outcomes.

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Host or Publisher Department of Gender Studies