Hali Kil
MA, PhD
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement
Jean-Michel Robichaud and Genevive A. Mageau and Bart Soenens and Elien Mabbe and Hali Kil and Joey Frenette and Mathis Roy
DOI: 10.1037/cbs000040907 / 2025
Social Science and Medicine
Johnson, N.J. and Kil, H. and Pauly, T. and Ashe, M.C. and Madden, K.M. and Murphy, R.A. and Linden, W. and Gerstorf, D. and Hoppmann, C.A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117635Clinical Psychology Review
Shukla, S. and Smith, R.J. and Burik, A. and Browne, D.T. and Kil, H.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2025.102568Family Journal
Burik, A. and Johnson, N.J. and Kil, H.
DOI: 10.1177/10664807251384194Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Robichaud, J.-M. and Mageau, G.A. and Kil, H. and McLaughlin, C. and Comeau, N. and Schumann, K.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106204Journal of Family Psychology
Ahn, J.S. and Kil, H. and Ratelle, C.F. and Mageau, G.A.
DOI: 10.1037/fam0001346Journal of Research on Adolescence
Robichaud, J.-M. and Schumann, K. and Kil, H. and Koestner, R. and Mageau, G.A.
DOI: 10.1111/jora.70024Mindfulness
Johnson, N.J. and Kil, H.
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-024-02511-6Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Labelle, L. and Robichaud, J.-M. and Kil, H. and Roy, M. and Laurendeau, J. and Normandin, A.-L. and Parent, S. and Sguin, J.R. and Joussemet, M. and Mageau, G.A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101633Frontiers in Psychology
Johnson, N.J. and Smith, R.J. and Kil, H.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1347487Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Aitken, M. and Plamondon, A. and Krzeczkowski, J. and Kil, H. and Andrade, B.F.
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-023-01119-zEuropean Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Levy, T. and Kil, H. and Schachar, R.J. and Itzhaky, L. and Andrade, B.F.
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-023-02190-zResearch on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Kil, H. and Sibalis, A. and Colasante, T. and Jambon, M. and Acland, E. and Suri, A. and Malti, T. and Andrade, B.F.
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-023-01070-zJournal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Robichaud, J.-M. and Bureau, J.S. and Zimmerman, G. and Mageau, G.A. and Schumann, K. and Kil, H. and Van Petegem, S.
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101674Development and Psychopathology
Kil, H. and Longpr, C. and Mageau, G.A.
DOI: 10.1017/S095457942300007XJournal of Adolescence
Kil, H. and Gath, M. and Grusec, J.E.
DOI: 10.1002/jad.12156Sport Psychologist
Lemelin, E. and Kil, H. and Petit, E. and Carpentier, J. and Forest, J. and Gadoury, S. and Richard, J.-P. and Joussemet, M. and Mageau, G.A.
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.2022-0124Parenting
Kil, H. and Lee, E. and Antonacci, R. and Grusec, J.E.
DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2022.2049601Frontiers in Psychology
Kil, H. and Lacourse, E. and Mageau, G.A. and Pelletier-Dumas, M. and Dorfman, A. and Stolle, D. and Lina, J.-M. and de la Sablonnire, R.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1016397Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Kil, H. and Robichaud, J.-M. and Mageau, G.A.
DOI: 10.1177/02654075221106997The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development
Kil, H. and Grusec, J.E.
DOI: 10.1002/9781119679028.ch35Child and Youth Care Forum
Arslan, D. and Kil, H. and Andrade, B.F.
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-021-09654-wPersonal Relationships
Kil, H. and Allen, M.-P. and Taing, J. and Mageau, G.A.
DOI: 10.1111/pere.12419Mindfulness
Kil, H. and Shukla, S. and Andrade, B.F.
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-022-01916-5Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Hali Kil and Anneesa D. Singh and Anmol Bains and Terri Rodak and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1007/s10567-021-00361-512 / 2021
Mindfulness
Hali Kil and Rebecca Antonacci and Serena Shukla and Anthony De Luca
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-021-01720-711 / 2021
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Hali Kil and Madison Aitken and Shanelle Henry and Ortenc Hoxha and Terri Rodak and Kathryn Bennett and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1007/s10567-020-00341-106 / 2021
Hali Kil and Joan Grusec
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2ums305 / 2021
Hali Kil and David O'Neill and Joan Grusec
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/fdrmq03 / 2021
Hali Kil and Elizabeth Lee and Rebecca Antonacci and Joan Grusec
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/j8h3c02 / 2021
Behavior Therapy
Magdalena Lysenko and Hali Kil and Lee Propp and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2020.03.00201 / 2021
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Kil, H. and Taing, J. and Mageau, G.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.013Mindfulness
Kil, H. and Antonacci, R. and Shukla, S. and De Luca, A.
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-021-01755-wSocial Development
Hali Kil and Lee Propp and Anthony De Luca and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1111/sode.1245211 / 2020
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Hali Kil and Julia Martini and Brendan F. Andrade
DOI: 10.1007/s10862-020-09801-y09 / 2020
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Hali Kil and Rebecca Antonacci
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-020-01714-405 / 2020
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Hali Kil and Kimberly A. Noels and Dayuma I. Vargas Lascano and Oliver Schweickart
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.03.00505 / 2019
Social Development
Hali Kil and Joan E. Grusec and Maria Paula Chaparro
DOI: 10.1111/sode.1228702 / 2018
International Journal of Behavioral Development
Joan E. Grusec and Tanya Danyliuk and Hali Kil and David ONeill
DOI: 10.1177/016502541668153806 / 2017
Language and Linguistics Compass
Kimberly A. Noels and Hali Kil and Yang Fang
DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.1210511 / 2014
Children with multiple ethnoracial backgrounds (multiethnic children) are often thought to experience heightened risk for emotional and behavioural disorders and related symptoms, largely owing to navigating their multiple ethnoracial identities and potentially conflicting associated cultural values. Parents of multiethnic children are also pathologized, thought to face similar issues in their couples’ relationship, leading to difficulties in parenting multiethnic children. In Dr. Kil’s lab, we aim to flip the narrative on these stereotypes held about interethnic parents and their multiethnic children, and refocus attention to multiethnic families’ flourishing. In recent work, we have found that interethnic couples and same-ethnicity couples are equally happy and satisfied with one another’s parenting roles (Kil, Robichaud & Mageau, 2022). In future work, we will test whether multiethnic children truly experience greater risk for emotional and behavioural difficulties compared to single-ethnicity children. We will also assess how specific parenting behaviours — such as supporting child autonomy — may foster multiethnic children’s psychological well-being.
Clinical psychology research points to the clear and distinguishable role of parents’ cognitions (their thought processes) on their parenting, children’s mental health, and children’s outcomes following treatment for emotional and behavioural disorders. Parents who lack self-confidence in their parenting or feel that they are not yet equipped to change their parenting tend not to participate in parent-child integrated treatments for children’s mental health, across various child diagnoses (Kil, Aitken et al., 2021). Our lab is currently working with mental health institutions in Ontario to create a novel assessment of parenting cognitions that can be efficiently and accessibly implemented in the intake process to better personalize mental health treatments for children and their families. Additionally, with evidence from our lab that parenting cognitions are culturally variable (Kil, Singh et al., 2021), we aim to identify, distinguish, and appropriately assess culturally diverse parenting cognitions, ultimately informing culturally sensitive family-based interventions for children’s mental health.
Mindfulness can be defined as present-focused and nonjudgmental attention and awareness. Dr. Kil’s lab investigates how parents’ mindfulness may be linked to children’s mental health, well-being, and even children’s own mindfulness. Our recent work indicates that parents who are mindful tend to have children who are mindful, suggesting that there may exist highly
mindful families (Kil, Lee et al., 2022). In future work, we will assess whether parents’ mindfulness may be targeted in children’s mental health services, with the goal to improve parenting cognitions surrounding parents’ self-confidence to change their parenting and their children’s control over misbehaviours.
2021-2023, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, What about the multicultural children? Identifying parenting processes that can foster positive outcomes in children of mixed ethnic and cultural origins, Principal Investigator, $74 263 (CAD)
2019-2021, Discovery Fund Seed Grant, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Optimizing treatment for depressed parents and children with emotional and behavioral disorders, Co-Investigator, $200 000 (CAD)
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