Adithi Rajagopalan

Adithi Rajagopalan, MS is a 6th-year doctoral candidate in the Child Clinical Psychology program at Pennsylvania State University. She received her MS in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, her MSEd and MPhilEd in Professional Counseling and Mental Health Counseling from the University of Pennsylvania, and her BA in Writing Seminars and Psychology from Johns Hopkins University. She has also worked as a research coordinator at the Stanford Pediatric Pain Management Clinic. During her graduate training, she completed practicums at the Pennsylvania State University Psychology Clinic located in State College, PA, Mount Sinai AIMS CARES UPRISE located in New York, NY, and Bluebird Child and Family Psychology located in Detroit, MI. She is currently a member of the Coping and Regulation of Environmental Stress lab at Penn State (CaRES, https://careslab.la.psu.edu/). Her thesis focused on racial salience as a predictor of stress-adapted coping. She found that racial salience acted as a moderator for primary engagement coping and disengagement coping. Her dissertation examined profiles of success in college students, particularly focusing on first-generation college students, and concluded that belonging and feelings of match with ones academic institution are integral to psychosocial and academic success for students, especially first-generation college students. Adithi is passionate about working with children and families impacted by chronic and acute trauma, systems involvement, and intersectional identities. In her free time, she loves to run, bake, and hang out with her dog, Brady.