Yuliya Kotelnikova, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, School and Clinical Child Psychology Program, Faculty of Education - Educational Psychology Dept

Pronouns: she, her, hers

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Assistant Professor, School and Clinical Child Psychology Program, Faculty of Education - Educational Psychology Dept

Email: kotelnik@ualberta.ca
Address: 6-112 Education Centre - North
8730 - 112 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2G5

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

temperament personality measurement dimensional models of psychopathology

About

Research Lab: Study of Assessment Methods and Psychopathology Across the Lifespan https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/sampllab

Associate Editor, Assessment

Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Consortium (HiTOP): Measures Development and Clinical Translation Workgroups Member https://www.hitop-system.org/

Post-doctoral training completed at the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA

Pre-doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology completed at the IWK Health Center, Halifax, NS, Canada

Ph.D., M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

B.Sc. Psychology Research Specialist, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Research

My research interests lie in the areas of personality development and developmental psychopathology with an emphasis on multi-informant and multi-method assessment. My graduate work at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) has explored the role of temperamental emotionality in internalizing psychopathology, and the influence of methodology on the conclusions that one draws in developmental models of depression vulnerability. This research was performed in the context of longitudinal designs in the hopes of creating a comprehensive model of depression risk, including temperamental, psychophysiological, and cognitive pathways.

In addition to assessment of child temperament and its role in development of internalizing disorders, I am interested in the interplay between personality and psychopathology beyond the child-developmental period. Being a member of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) consortium, I also contribute to the research literature on improving the organization, description, and measurement of psychopathology.

Given my long-standing interest in statistical methods, I am continuing to explore structural, methodological, and developmental issues in assessment of personality and temperament, including maladaptive personality traits. My postdoctoral research at the Center for Advanced Measurement of Personality and Psychopathology (CAMPP), University of Notre Dame focused on the structural and methodological issues in assessment of maladaptive personality traits and developing a better understanding of how such traits are related to functional impairment in daily life. With Dr. Lee Anna Clark, the developer of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality, we developed a significantly shortened version of this measure, the SNAP Brief Self-Description Rating Form (SNAP-BSRF) and its informant counterpart, the SNAP Brief Other-Description Rating Form (SNAP-BORF). Currently, I am working on developing a battery of theoretically and empirically grounded measures of temperament/personality across the lifespan to increase understanding of how temperament/ personality contributes to the development of psychopathology.

Teaching

My teaching interests include research methods, test construction & measurement, personality/psychopathology assessment, developmental psychopathology.

Announcements

I am currently accepting M.Ed. students who are applying to the School and Clinical Child Psychology program.

Courses

EDPY 640 - Developmental Psychopathology

This course will provide students with the theoretical and empirical preparation necessary for advanced clinical training in the diagnosis of mental disorders and psychopathology. This course will emphasize methods of conceptualizing the diagnostic process, with particular focus on developmental psychopathology, differential diagnosis, and assessment that is closely linked to intervention. Students will develop familiarity with the clinical presentation and diagnostic criteria of major mental disorders as they are commonly encountered in practice, primarily as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as well as coverage of alternate diagnostic systems such as the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases. The course will explore both strengths and weaknesses of the medical model of pathology as it applies to educational and psychological problems, leaving students to formulate and establish their approach regarding its utility in clinical practice. Restricted to students enrolled in the School and Clinical Child Psychology or Counselling Psychology programs.

Fall Term 2025

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Featured Publications

Temperament/personality and depression.

Kotelnikova, Y., Stanton, K.J., & Hayden, E.P.

In J.W. Pettit, T.M. Olino, & E.P. Hayden (Eds.), American Psychological Association (APA) handbook of depression.. 2024 June; in press

Structure of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescence: A comparison of a bifactor and a two-factor model over time and across reporters.

Scalco, M.D., Kotelnikova, Y., Harshaw, C., Evans, M., Webre, N., Lengua, L.J., & Colder, C.R.

Development & Psychopathology. 2024 June; in press

Latent structure and measurement invariance of the Depression Self-Rating Scale for children across sex and age.

Green, H.E., Gabel, L.N., Stewart, E.K., Kotelnikova, Y., & Hayden, E.P.

Psychological Assessment. 2024 May; in press

Automated coding of children’s spoken language is associated with internalizing symptoms and cortisol reactivity to stress.

Iddiols, B.A., Daoust, A. R., Mullen, J.N., Kotelnikova, Y., & Hayden, E. P.

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 2024 January; 10.1007/s10862-024-10124-5

A longitudinal, multimethod study of children’s early emerging maladaptive personality traits: Stress sensitivity as a protective factor.

Kotelnikova, Y., Mackrell, S.V.M., Clark, L.A., & Hayden, E.P.

Journal of Research in Personality. 2024 January; 109 10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104448

Supporting immigrant survivors of domestic violence.

Mulholland, J., Santarossa, A., & Kotelnikova, Y.

In: Shackelford, T. K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. New York: Springer Nature. 2023 October; 10.1007/978-3-030-85493-5_1618-1

Child maltreatment: Personal traits.

Slater, K. & Kotelnikova, Y.

In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. New York: Springer Nature. . 2023 October; 10.1007/978-3-030-85493-5_1874-1

Early childhood impulsivity and parenting predict children’s trajectories of externalizing psychopathology

Stewart, E. K., Kotelnikova, Y., Olino, T. M., & Hayden, E. P.

Development and Psychopathology. 2023 May; 10.1017/s0954579423000482

Predicting children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms across development from early emotional reactivity

Gabel, L.N., Ali, O.M., Kotelnikova,Y., Tremblay, P.F., Stanton, K.J., Durbin, C.E., & Hayden, E.P.

Social Development. 2023 April; 10.1111/sode.12673

Childhood Maltreatment, Resilience After

Mulholland, J., Kotelnikova, Y.

In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. New York: Springer, Nature. . 2023 March; 10.1007/978-3-030-85493-5_1875-1

Assessing the dominance behavioral system in early childhood using observational methods

Mullen, J.N., Liu, P., McDonnell, C.G., Stanton, K. J., Kotelnikova, Y., Johnson, S.L., & Hayden, E.P.

Current Issues in Personality Psychology. 2023 February; 10.5114/cipp/156767

Structure of pathological personality traits through the lens of the CAT-PD model

Ringwald, W.R., Emery, L., Khoo, S., Clark, L.A., Kotelnikova, Y., Scalco, M.D., Watson, D., Wright, A.G.C., & Simms, L.J.

Assessment. 2023 January; 10.31234/osf.io/kuefm

The development of preliminary HiTOP internalizing spectrum scales

Watson, D., Forbes, M.K., Levin-Aspenson, H.F., Ruggero, C.J., Kotelnikova, Y., Khoo, S., Bagby, M.R., Sunderland, M., Patalay, P., & Kotov, R.

Assessment. 2022 January; 29 10.1177/1073191121100

Associations between children’s telomere length, caregiving, and the development of early externalizing symptoms

Daoust, A. R., Thakur, A., Kotelnikova, Y., Kleiber, M.L., Singh, S. M., & Hayden, E. P.

Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 2021 January; 10.1007/s10578-021-01279-3

Intersection between justice-involved youth personality cluster profiles and criminal risk-need patterns

Kotelnikova, Y., LeFebvre, C., Campbell, M. A., Canales, D., & Stewart, C.

International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. 2021 January; 10.1080/14999013.2021.1972061

Preliminary scales for ICD-11 personality disorder: Self and interpersonal dysfunction plus five personality disorder trait domains

Clark, L.A., Corona-Espinosa, A., Khoo, S., Kotelnikova, Y., Levin-Aspenson, H.F., Serapio- Garcia, G., & Watson, D.

Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2021 January; 12 (668724) 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.668724

Parent personality and children’s externalizing problems are related via early caregiving

Ali, O.M., Kotelnikova, Y., Kryski, K.R., Durbin, C.E., & Hayden, E.P.

Infant and Child Development. 2021 January; 30 (3) 10.1002/icd.2220

Dynamic associations between children’s lower- and higher-order regulation predict change in attention problems

Liu, P., Kryski, K. R., Smith, H. J., Kotelnikova, Y., Singh, S., & Hayden, E. P.

Social Development. 2020 January; 30 10.1111/sode.12469

Assessing the joint structure of maladaptive personality traits and psychopathology

Kotelnikova, Y., Weaver, C. A., & Clark, L. A.

Journal of Research in Personality. 2019 January; 81 10.1016/j.jrp.2019.05.007

Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology across development: Associations with personality

Levin-Aspenson, H. F., Khoo, S., & Kotelnikova, Y.

Journal of Research in Personality. 2019 January; 81 10.1016/j.jrp.2019.05.006

Development and initial validation of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality Brief Other-Description Rating Form

Kotelnikova Y., Clark, L. A., & Hayden, E. P.

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 2019 January; 41 10.1007/s10862-019-09729-y

Longitudinal associations between parenting, child sex and effortful control

Amicarelli, A., Kotelnikova, Y., Smith, H. J., Kryski, K. R., & Hayden, E. P.

British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 2018 January; 31 10.1111/bjdp.12220

Child sex moderates the relationship between cortisol stress reactivity and symptoms over time

Daoust, A. R., Kotelnikova, Y., Kryski, K. R., Sheikh, H. I., Singh, S. M., & Hayden, E. P.

Comprehensive psychiatry. 2018 January; 87 (161-170) 10.1016/j.comppsych.2018.10.009

Spousal agreement on partner personality ratings is moderated by relationship satisfaction

Vandermeer, M. R., Kotelnikova, Y., Simms, L. J., & Hayden, E. P.

Journal of Research in Personality. 2018 January; 76 10.1016/j.jrp.2018.07.005

Higher and lower order factor analyses of the temperament in middle childhood questionnaire

Kotelnikova, Y., Olino, T. M., Klein, D. N., Mackrell, S. V. M., & Hayden, E. P.

Assessment. 2017 January; 24 10.1177/1073191116639376

Catechol-O-Methyltransferase gene (val158met) polymorphisms and anxiety symptoms in early childhood: The role of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity and stress

Sheikh, H. I., Kryski, K. R., Kotelnikova, Y., Hayden, E. P., & Singh, S. M.

Neuroscience Letters. 2017 January; 659 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.08.060

Development and validation of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality Brief Self-Description Rating Form (SNAP–BSRF)

Kotelnikova Y., Vernon, P. A., Clark, L. A., & Hayden, E. P.

Assessment. 2015 January; 22 10.1177/1073191114534959