I am a current sixth-year doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin in the combined School/Clinical Psychology program. I graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, a concentration in Clinical Psychology, and a minor in Hispanic Studies. My work at UT Austin has been with Dr. Mark Eddy, where I work primarily on several global prevention projects concerning Latinx and other underserved populations, as well as incarcerated parents, the reentry process, and access to resources.
Additionally, I currently work in a local private practice under the supervision of Dr. Serena Messina providing individual and family psychological therapy in both English and Spanish. My previous clinical work has taken place in various settings, including a Dell Valle ISD middle school, an inpatient adult hospital (Dell Seton), and an outpatient specialty clinic at a children's hospital (Dell Children's).
Finally, I have a strong teamwork background and am an effective communicator, aided by my fluency in English, Spanish, and Galician. My analytical skills, organization, and motivation to work allow me to adjust well to fast-paced environments.
J. Mark Eddy (Supervisor)J. Mark Eddy's primary area of expertise is the development, refinement and rigorous testing of culturally informed multimodal preventive and clinical psychosocial interventions to improve physical and mental health outcomes for children and families. This work is done in collaboration with families and professionals from schools and other community-based service systems. Areas of interest include parent-child relationships; intimate partner relationships; family violence; parent management training; couples intervention; youth mentoring; early childhood education and family-based intervention;...
Student Representative, Educational Psychology Department, National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)(2021 - 2022)
Cohort Representative, First-year cohort, Educational Psychology(2020 - 2021)
Diversity Coordinator, Educational Psychology Department, Student Affiliates of School Psychology (SASP)(2020 - Present)
Reino, C., Reino, A., Lesser, T. & Santamaria Urbieta, A. (2025). Experiences and Perspectives of Executive Leaders in Friends of the Children: A Qualitative Case Study. Handbook of Professional Mentoring: Springer Nature.
Davidson, S., Contreras, J., Reino, C., Alba-Suarez, J., Patel, P., Greenspahn, E., Boucher, L. & Rodriguez, E.M.. (2023). The Socioecology of Parental Adjustment to Pediatric Cancer: The Roles of Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Parental Social Support and Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 48(3), 193–201. doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsac089.
Metcalfe, R.E.., Matulis, J.M.., Reino, C. & Stormshak, E.A.. (2023). Up in My Business: Middle School Parental Monitoring Predicts Emerging Adulthood Arrests. Journal of Family Psychology.
Eddy, J.M.., Pak, H., Reino, C. & Reino, A. (2022). A Review of Reentry Programs and Their Inclusion and Impacts on Children and Families.. Children of incarcerated parents: Impact, support and collaboration.. New York, NY: Springer.
Metcalfe, R.E.., Muentner, L.D.., Reino, C., Schweer-Colling, M.L.., Kjellstrand, J.M.. & Eddy, J.M.. (2022). Witnessing Parental Arrest As a Predictor of Child Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms During and After Parental Incarceration. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 16(2), 329–338. doi:10.1007/s40653-022-00490-1.
Metcalfe, R.E.., Reino, C., Jackson, A.., Kjellstrand, J.M.. & Eddy, J.M.. (2022). Supporting incarcerated parents prior to reentry: A gender and racial equity-oriented lens. Police, courts, and incarceration: The justice system and the family: Emerald Group Publishing.
Miles de Manos was developed over a four-year period that involved extensive collaborations with Central American education and health experts, community leaders, families, and governmental representatives. The original development work was funded by the German nongovernmental international development organization, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
Miles de Manos is currently being implemented in hundreds of schools throughout Central America. In Honduras, it has been identified as a key component of its national education plan. During the course of the five-year project, more than 1,500 students, 1,500 parents and caregivers, and 240 teachers in 30 schools across Honduras will be involved in the study.
Parents and families face a unique set of challenges when a child is diagnosed with cancer. In this study, we are interested in identifying coping strategies that parents use and how these coping strategies predict more supportive communication patterns between parents. We are also studying how stress levels, coping, and marital communication compare across English- and Spanish-speaking families. The goal of this study is to understand the factors that help families cope with the disease and its impact on marital and family relationships.
This study is conducted in collaboration with the Childrens Blood and Cancer Center at Dell Childrens Medical Center, and has been funded by a UT Faculty Research Grant.
Children with poorly controlled asthma are at risk for missing school and for emotional and behavioral difficulties. Latinx children from low-SES backgrounds experience disproportionate rates of uncontrolled asthma. Our research in this area seeks to understand coping in low-SES Latinx children with asthma and their parents, and how these factors impact childrens asthma control, emotional and behavioral well-being, and school outcomes. In partnership with primary care clinics in Austin and Del Valle, we are testing a bilingual English-Spanish intervention program (Adapt 2 Asthma) to support positive health and psychosocial outcomes for children with asthma and their parents.
Texas New Scholar Award, The University of Texas at Austin (2025 - 2026)
Texas New Scholar Award, The University of Texas at Austin (2024 - 2025)
Integrative Behavioral Health (IBH) Scholarship, The University of Texas at Austin (2023 - 2024)
Christine W. Anderson Scholarship, The University of Texas at Austin (2022 - 2023)
Sanchez-Marres Endowed Presidential Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin (2020 - 2022)
Reflecting on 15 Years of Dissemination and Implementation of an Evidence-Based Program: The Case of Parenting inside out for Incarcerated Parents, Society for Prevention Research 32nd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, United States (2024)
Witnessing parental arrest as a predictor of child internalizing and externalizing symptoms., Western Psychological Association 2022 Convention, Portland, OR, United States (2022)
SPR CUP TEAM III: Quackina-Long (horn) to Action, SPR Cup, Society for Prevention Research 30th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, United States (2022)
Characteristics of interpersonal relationships in children of incarcerated parents, American Society of Criminology 2021 Conference, Chicago, IL, United States (2021)
Comparing US University Systems to Europe, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Spain (2019)
