Abbey Radford

Abbey Radford is a Métis doctorate student in the clinical psychology program at Lakehead University. Her research interests include examining Indigenous mental health and substance use, resilience and cultural connectedness, utilizing community-based participatory research frameworks. Abbey works on various research projects focused on topics such as child maltreatment, youth homelessness, vaccine hesitancy, peer interventions, e-health interventions, and transdiagnostic interventions for children. Her Master's research, investigating substance use motives and risky personality traits among First Nations adults seeking treatment for substance use, was supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC scholarship, and a CIHR scholarship supports her doctoral work.

Publications

1. Lund, J. I., Toombs, E., Radford, A., Boles, K., & Mushquash, C. J. (2019). Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and executive function difficulties in children: A systematic review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 106.