Danit Nitka

Psychology

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I love working with children and their families because I learn something new daily.

Education

University

McGill University

Concordia University, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

Fun fact about me

I’ve gone parasailing, paragliding, and skydiving.

Psychology

Research

Research interests

Social anxiety and problematic drinking

Selected publications

Nitka, D., & O’Connor, R. M. (2017). Evaluations of alcohol consequences moderate social anxiety risk for problematic drinking. Addictive behaviors, 65, 131-136.

Keough, M. T., Badawi, G., Nitka, D., O’Connor, R. M., & Stewart, S. H. (2016). Impulsivity increases risk for coping-motivated drinking in undergraduates with elevated social anxiety. Personality and individual differences, 88, 45-50.

Schmitz, N., Nitka, D., Gariepy, G., Malla, A., Wang, J., Boyer, R., … & Lesage, A. (2009). Association between neighborhood-level deprivation and disability in a community sample of people with diabetes. Diabetes care, 32(11), 1998-2004.

Ivanova, A., Nitka, D., & Schmitz, N. (2010). Epidemiology of antidepressant medication use in the Canadian diabetes population. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 45(9), 911-919.

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