Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl is the Principal Investigator of the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI). An Applied Developmental Psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education at UBC, she has been conducting research in the area of the child and adolescent social and emotional development for over 20 years. Specifically, her work has been to identify the processes and mechanisms that foster positive development in children, such as empathy, optimism, and altruism.

More information about Dr. Schonert-Reichl: http://educ.ubc.ca/research/ksr/schonert-reichl.html.

Publications

• Children's perceptions and comforting strategies to infant crying: Relations to age, sex, and empathy-related responding

  • 2011 British Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Catherine N. , Schonert-Reichl K.

• Mindfulness and inhibitory control in early adolescence

  • 2011 Journal of Early Adolescence
  • Oberle E. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Lawlor M. S. , Thomson K.

• Promoting children’s prosocial behaviors in school: Impact of the “Roots of Empathy” program on the social and emotional competence of school-aged children

  • 2011 School Mental Health
  • Schonert-Reichl K. , Smith V. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Hertzman C.

• Children's perceptions and comforting strategies to infant crying: Relations to age, sex, and empathy-related responding

  • 2011 British Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Catherine N. , Schonert-Reichl K.

• Life satisfaction in early adolescence: Personal, neighborhood, school, family, and peer influences

  • 2011 Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Oberle E. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Zumbo B.

• Handbook of bullying in schools An international perspective

  • 2010
  • Hymel S. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Bonanno R. A. , Vaillancourt T. , Henderson N. R.

• Investigating validity evidence of the satisfaction with life scale adapted for children

  • 2010 Social Indicators Research
  • Gadermann A. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Zumbo B.

• Middle Years Development Instrument - Vancouver District Report

  • 2010
  • Guhn M. , Konishi C. , Sweiss L. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Hymel S. , Lee A.

• Our Children’s Voices: The Middle Years Development Instrument

  • 2010
  • Schonert-Reichl K. , Guhn M. , Hymel S. , Hertzman C. , Sweiss L. , Gadermann A.

• The effects of a mindfulness-based education program on pre- and early adolescents’ well-being and social and emotional competence

  • 2010 Mindfulness
  • Schonert-Reichl K. , Lawlor M. S.

• Understanding the link between social and emotional well-being and peer relations in early adolescence: Gender-specific predictors of peer acceptance

  • 2010 Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Oberle E. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Thomson K.

• Life satisfaction in early adolescence: Personal, neighborhood, school, family, and peer influences

  • 2010 Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Oberle E. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Zumbo B.

Projects

• MDI MAPS
• MDI
• MDI Parent and Community Resources
• MDI Toolkit