Email: mxf4745@nyu.edu
Program: PhD in Counseling Psychology
Year entered Program: 2024
Research Interests: Access to Care for Underserved Communities, Children and Families, ADHD and Disruptive Behavioral Disorders, Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices, Urban-Poor and Trauma-Exposed Communities
Principal Advisor(s): Dr. Anil Chacko
Research Description/Bio:
Madison Forde is a doctoral student in the Counseling/Clinical Psychology program at New York University. Her research examines how contextual, familial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal factors contribute to the development and persistence of behavioral challenges, with a particular focus on trauma. Using mixed methods, implementation science, and community-based participatory research, she designs, adapts, and scales culturally responsive, trauma-informed interventions to improve service engagement and utilization among under-resourced, urban-poor, and trauma-exposed populations. Before joining NYU, Madison served as Lead Research Assistant in the Social Cognitive Affective Neurodevelopment Laboratory at NYU Langone Health, where she conducted multimodal research on how environmental and social factors shape child neurodevelopment. She collaborated closely with community leaders and parents with lived experience to ensure that research practices were ethically grounded and responsive to the needs of families navigating adversity, including those involved in child welfare, substance use, and housing insecurity. Madison earned her B.A. in Psychology from Amherst College.