Victoria W Willard, Graduate Student

Victoria W Willard

Graduate Student
office: 116 Child and Family Study Center
email:
phone: 919-416-2452

research interests | research | publications

Research Summary:
 I am a clinical psychology student working with Dr. Melanie Bonner. My interests are in the field of pediatric psychology, and more specifically, on the late effects of childhood cancer treatment, on both the survivor and the larger family. These include, but are not limited to, social, cognitive and caregiver effects.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K., Willard, V.W., & Hutchinson, K.C. (2007). Brief Report: Psychosocial functioning of fathers as primary caregivers of pediatric oncology patients. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 32, 851-856.
  2. Hardy, K.K., Bonner, M.J., Masi, R., Hutchinson, K.C., Willard, V.W., & Rosoff, P.M. (2008). Psychosocial functioning in parents of adult survivors of childhood cancer. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 30, 153-159.
  3. Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K., Willard, V.W., Hutchinson, K.C., & Guill, A.B. (2008). Further validation of the Parent Experience of Child Illness (PECI) Scale. Children's Health Care, 37, 145-157.
  4. Hardy, K.K., Bonner, M.J., Willard, V.W., Watral, M.A., & Gururangan, S. (in press). Brief Report: Hydrocephalus as a possible additional contributor to cognitive outcome in survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma. Psycho-Oncology.
  5. Bonner, M. J., Hardy, K. K., Willard, V. W., Anthony, K. K., Hood, M. A. & Gururangan, S. (in press). Social functioning and facial expression recognition in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
  6. Hutchinson, K.C., Willard, V.W., Hardy, K.K., & Bonner, M.J. (in press). Adjustment of caregivers of pediatric patients with brain tumors: A cross-sectional analysis. Psycho-Oncology.
  7. Bonner, M.J., Hardy, K.K., Willard, V.W., & Gururangan, S. (in press). Additional evidence of Nonverbal Learning Disability (NLD) in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. Children's Health Care.
  8. Willard, V.W., Hardy, K.K., & Bonner, M.J. (Submitted, under review). Gender differences in facial expression recognition in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. Psycho-Oncology.