- Overview
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Parents play an active and meaningful role in helping children cope with everyday challenges. As such, fostering positive and appropriate parenting practices can have a pivotal impact on children’s mental health and treatment outcomes. However, parenting is not an easy job and it is often difficult to consistently respond to a child in a way that aligns with one’s intentions. Dr. Kil’s research seeks to understand parents’ thoughts and behaviours in the context of children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties, with subthemes focused on parent-child mindfulness and multicultural family functioning. The goal of this research is to inform child mental health interventions to better target parent and family factors that can best help children flourish.
- Publications
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Mindfulness Across the Lifespan: Psychometric Properties and Age Invariance of the FFMQ-15
Mindfulness
Nathaniel J. Johnson and Hali Kil
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-024-02511-6
01/2025Associations between socioeconomic status, child risk factors, and parenting during guided learning
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101633
2024Not all mindfulness is equal: certain facets of mindfulness have important implications for well-being and mental health across the lifespan
Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1347487
2024Systematic Integration of Multi-Informant Externalizing Ratings in Clinical Settings
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-023-01119-z
2024Should Parents Combine Reasoning With Firm Control to Nurture Adolescent Socialization? Comparing Logical Consequences With Mild Punishments
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science
DOI: 10.1037/cbs0000409
2024Suicidality risk in children and adolescents with externalizing disorders: symptoms profiles at high risk and the moderating role of dysregulated family relationships
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-023-02190-z
2024Physiological Dysregulation in Children With and Without Externalizing Difficulties: Novel Insights From Intensive Longitudinal Data
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-023-01070-z
2024Parental apologies and adolescents' information management strategies: Social learning and self-determination perspectives
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101674
2024Dysregulation profile in children of ethnoracially diverse at-risk families: Factor structure and longitudinal correlates
Development and Psychopathology
DOI: 10.1017/S095457942300007X
2024Dual process in parent–adolescent moral socialization: The moderating role of maternal warmth and involvement
Journal of Adolescence
DOI: 10.1002/jad.12156
2023How to Support Athlete Autonomy in University Sports: Coaches' Experience of the reROOT Program
Sport Psychologist
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.2022-0124
2023Mindful Parents, Mindful Children? Exploring the Role of Mindful Parenting
Parenting
DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2022.2049601
2023Initial risk factors, self-compassion trajectories, and well-being outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A person-centered approach
Frontiers in Psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1016397
2023Trajectories of coparenting quality across ethnically diverse and interethnic parents
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
DOI: 10.1177/02654075221106997
2022Prosocial behavior
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development
DOI: 10.1002/9781119679028.ch35
2022Exploring the Moderating Role of Child Callous-Unemotional Traits on the Link Between Parental Attributions and Parenting Behaviors
Child and Youth Care Forum
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-021-09654-w
2022Autonomy support in disclosure and privacy maintenance regulation within romantic relationships
Personal Relationships
DOI: 10.1111/pere.12419
2022Mindfulness, Parental Attributions, and Parenting: the Moderating Role of Child Mental Health
Mindfulness
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-022-01916-5
2022Parental Attributions in Ethnocultural Minority, Immigrant, and Country of Origin Parents: A Scoping Review and Call for Research
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Hali Kil and Anneesa D. Singh and Anmol Bains and Terri Rodak and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1007/s10567-021-00361-5
12/2021Mindfulness and Parenting: A Meta-analysis and an Exploratory Meta-mediation
Mindfulness
Hali Kil and Rebecca Antonacci and Serena Shukla and Anthony De Luca
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-021-01720-7
11/2021Transdiagnostic Associations Among Parental Causal Locus Attributions, Child Behavior and Psychosocial Treatment Outcomes: A Systematic Review
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Hali Kil and Madison Aitken and Shanelle Henry and Ortenc Hoxha and Terri Rodak and Kathryn Bennett and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1007/s10567-020-00341-1
06/2021Links among mothers’ dispositional mindfulness, stress, perspective-taking, and mother-child interactions
Hali Kil and Joan Grusec
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2ums3
05/2021Prosocial motivation as a mediator between dispositional mindfulness and prosocial behavior
Hali Kil and David O'Neill and Joan Grusec
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/fdrmq
03/2021Mindful parents, mindful children? Exploring the mediating role of mindful parenting
Hali Kil and Elizabeth Lee and Rebecca Antonacci and Joan Grusec
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/j8h3c
02/2021Psychometric Properties of the Parent Cognition Scale in a Clinical Sample of Parents of Children With Disruptive Behavior
Behavior Therapy
Magdalena Lysenko and Hali Kil and Lee Propp and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2020.03.002
01/2021Interethnic parenting experiences in raising mixed-ethnicity children: A systematic qualitative review
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.013
2021Correction to: Mindfulness and Parenting: A Meta-analysis and an Exploratory Meta-mediation (Mindfulness, (2021), 12, 11, (2593-2612), 10.1007/s12671-021-01720-7)
Mindfulness
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-021-01755-w
2021Balanced, positive, and negative attributions: A preliminary investigation of a novel attribution coding system and associated affect and social behavior in children with disruptive behavior
Social Development
Hali Kil and Lee Propp and Anthony De Luca and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12452
11/2020Parental Attributions, Parenting Skills, and Readiness for Treatment in Parents of Children with Disruptive Behavior
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Hali Kil and Julia Martini and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1007/s10862-020-09801-y
09/2020Mindful Parenting Programs in Non-clinical Contexts: A Qualitative Review of Child Outcomes and Programs, and Recommendations for Future Research
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Hali Kil and Rebecca Antonacci
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-020-01714-4
05/2020English Canadians’ cultural stereotypes of ethnic minority groups: Implications of stereotype content for acculturation ideologies and immigration attitudes
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Hali Kil and Kimberly A. Noels and Dayuma I. Vargas Lascano and Oliver Schweickart
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.03.005
05/2019Maternal disclosure and adolescent prosocial behavior: The mediating roles of adolescent disclosure and coping
Social Development
Hali Kil and Joan E. Grusec and Maria Paula Chaparro
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12287
02/2018Perspectives on parent discipline and child outcomes
International Journal of Behavioral Development
Joan E. Grusec and Tanya Danyliuk and Hali Kil and David O’Neill
DOI: 10.1177/0165025416681538
06/2017Ethnolinguistic Orientation and Language Variation: Measuring and Archiving Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Attitudes, and Identity
Language and Linguistics Compass
Kimberly A. Noels and Hali Kil and Yang Fang
DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12105
11/2014 - Research
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Multiethnic and multiracial children’s mental health and flourishing
Children with multiple ethnoracial backgrounds (multiethnic children) are often thought to experience heightened risk for emotional and behavioural disorders and related symptoms, largely owing to navigating their multiple ethnoracial identities and potentially conflicting associated cultural values. Parents of multiethnic children are also pathologized, thought to face similar issues in their couples’ relationship, leading to difficulties in parenting multiethnic children. In Dr. Kil’s lab, we aim to flip the narrative on these stereotypes held about interethnic parents and their multiethnic children, and refocus attention to multiethnic families’ flourishing. In recent work, we have found that interethnic couples and same-ethnicity couples are equally happy and satisfied with one another’s parenting roles (Kil, Robichaud & Mageau, 2022). In future work, we will test whether multiethnic children truly experience greater risk for emotional and behavioural difficulties compared to single-ethnicity children. We will also assess how specific parenting behaviours — such as supporting child autonomy — may foster multiethnic children’s psychological well-being.Parenting cognitions and children’s mental health
Clinical psychology research points to the clear and distinguishable role of parents’ cognitions (their thought processes) on their parenting, children’s mental health, and children’s outcomes following treatment for emotional and behavioural disorders. Parents who lack self-confidence in their parenting or feel that they are not yet equipped to change their parenting tend not to participate in parent-child integrated treatments for children’s mental health, across various child diagnoses (Kil, Aitken et al., 2021). Our lab is currently working with mental health institutions in Ontario to create a novel assessment of parenting cognitions that can be efficiently and accessibly implemented in the intake process to better personalize mental health treatments for children and their families. Additionally, with evidence from our lab that parenting cognitions are culturally variable (Kil, Singh et al., 2021), we aim to identify, distinguish, and appropriately assess culturally diverse parenting cognitions, ultimately informing culturally sensitive family-based interventions for children’s mental health.Mindfulness in the family: Parent and child mindfulness and family well-being
Mindfulness can be defined as present-focused and nonjudgmental attention and awareness. Dr. Kil’s lab investigates how parents’ mindfulness may be linked to children’s mental health, well-being, and even children’s own mindfulness. Our recent work indicates that parents who are mindful tend to have children who are mindful, suggesting that there may exist highly
mindful families (Kil, Lee et al., 2022). In future work, we will assess whether parents’ mindfulness may be targeted in children’s mental health services, with the goal to improve parenting cognitions surrounding parents’ self-confidence to change their parenting and their children’s control over misbehaviours.Grants2021-2023, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, What about the multicultural children? Identifying parenting processes that can foster positive outcomes in children of mixed ethnic and cultural origins, Principal Investigator, $74 263 (CAD)
2019-2021, Discovery Fund Seed Grant, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Optimizing treatment for depressed parents and children with emotional and behavioral disorders, Co-Investigator, $200 000 (CAD)
Advancing understanding of the developing brain in preterm babies to help inform therapies
BCCHR research found new evidence that the younger a baby is born, the slower their brain development will be. Scientists are investigating how the brain functions at an early gestational age so they can identify potential therapies.