Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Biography

Maeve is a graduate student studying in the Clinical Psychology Program (Child Track) under the supervision of Dr. McMahon. Her Master's thesis involved using a person-centered data analytic approach to examine desistance of early-onset conduct problems and its association with long-term psychosocial outcomes. Her research interests include developmental pathways of child and adolescent psychopathology as well as risk and protective processes that are amenable to intervention. Maeve defended her dissertation in December 2021. Her doctoral research, funded by CIHR's Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, investigated whether ODD symptom 'subgroups' could be identified in the Fast Track sample. She is now in the process of completing her pre-doctoral residency.

Representative Publications/Presentations

Goulter, N., Cyr, M., Kotler, J. S., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (in press). Childhood conduct problems trajectories are associated with distinct Antisocial Process Screening Device dimensions. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Cyr, M., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2020). A long-term look at “early starters”: Predicting adult psychosocial outcomes from childhood conduct problem trajectories. Development and Psychopathology. doi:10.1017/S0954579420000760

Cyr, M., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2019, May). A long-term look at “early starters”: Predicting adult psychosocial outcomes from childhood conduct problem trajectories. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, San Francisco, CA.

Cyr, M., Zheng, Y., & McMahon, R. J. (2018, October). A long-term look at "early starters": Predicting adult psychosocial outcomes from childhood conduct problem trajectories. Poster presented at the Brain, Behaviour, & Development Annual Research Day, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Trainee Research Forum, Vancouver, BC.

Pasalich, D. S., Cyr, M., Zheng, Y., McMahon, R. J., & Spieker, S. J. (2016). Child abuse history in teen mothers and parent-child risk processes for offspring externalizing problems. Child Abuse and Neglect, 56, 89-98. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.04.011 

Zaitsoff, S., Pullmer, R., Cyr, M. & Aime, H. (2015). The role of the therapeutic alliance in eating disorder treatment outcomes: A systematic review. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 23, 99-114. doi:10.1080/10640266.2014.964623

Cyr, M., Pasalich, D. S., McMahon, R. J., & Spieker, S. (2014). The longitudinal link between parenting and child aggression: The moderating effect of attachment security. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 45, 555-564. doi:10.1007/s10578-013-0424-4.