Title: Teaching Term Professor

Program: Psychology

Email: tpritchard@mun.ca

Webpage: https://tylerpritchard.netlify.app

Social media/LinkedIn: Twitter: PritchardPsych

 

Research interests/expertise

I am the director of The Pritchard Lab. Our team focuses on furthering our understanding self-injurious behaviors, such as suicide, health and mental health disparities between rural and non-rural regions, and how the internet can impact mental health and disorders. Lab members are typically undergraduate honour's students and student volunteers.

 

Teaching

I teach a variety of courses related to clinical and developmental psychology. I have a particular interest in developmental systems theory and developmental psychopathology. In the last couple of years, I have taught:

• Introduction to Psychology I (PSYC 1000) and II (PSYC 1001)
• Developmental Psychology (PSYC 2025)
• Personality Psychology (PSYC 2625)
• Contemporary Issues in Personality (PSYC 3025) – Focus: Developmental Psychopathology
• Contemporary Issues in Personality (PSYC 3625) – Focus: Health Psychology
• Psychotherapy (PSYC 3627)
• Psychology of Education (PSYC 3226)
• Research Methods III (PSYC 3950)
• Senior Seminar in Psychology (PSYC 4950)

I typically supervise 1-2 honour’s student each year.

 

Representative scholarly contributions

• Pritchard, T. R., Thomassin, K., Buckle, J. L., Lewis, S. P. (2024). Rural suicide: A systematic review and recommendations. Clinical Psychological Science, 0, 1-15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241234319
• Pritchard, T. R., & Lewis, S. P, (2023). Self-injury and internet: research, outreach, and practice. The Oxford Handbook of Nonsuicidal Self-injury.
• Pritchard, T. R. (2023). Insights and Analysis: A PSYC3950 Course Companion. https://bookdown.org/tylerrpritchard/psyc-3950-companion/
• Lewis, S. P. Kenny, T. E., Pritchard, T. R., Labonte, L., Heath, N., & Whitley, R. (2022). Self-injury during COVID-19: Views from university students with lived experience. Journal of Nervous and Mental, 210, 824-830. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001541
• Pritchard, T. R., *Fedchenko, C. A., Lewis, S. P. (2021). Self-injury is my drug: The functions of describing nonsuicidal self-injury as an addiction. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001359
• Pritchard, T. R., Lewis, S. P., Marcincinova, I. (2020). Needs of youth posting about non-suicidal self-Injury: A time-trend analysis. Journal of Adolescent Health, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.06.038
• Lewis, S. P., Kenny, T. E., & Pritchard, T. R. (2019). Toward an understanding of online self-injury activity: Review and Recommendations for Researchers and Clinicians. In. J. Washburn (Ed). Nonsuicidal Self-injury: Advances in Research and Practice. New York, NY: Routledge

 

 

Memberships and affiliations

Newfoundland and Labrador Psychology Board - Clinical Psychologist (Provisional)

 

Honours, graduate and post-graduate supervision

 

Honour’s Theses:

2024 – 2025

Paxton Roberts

Project: TBD

 

Abby Hodder

Project: TBD

 

2023 - 2024

Ariel Thomas

Project: Burden of Care: Suicide Exposure and Training in Rural Health Care Professionals

 

Abby Caines

Project: Tokenism and Suicidality Among Indigenous Peoples in Newfoundland and Labrador

 

2022 – 2023

Taylor Benoite

Project: Male Partners’ Experiences with a Romantic Partner Disclosing Self-injury

 

2020 – 2021

Matt Heakes

Co-supervisor with Dr. Lewis at the University of Guelph

Project: The Emperor’s New Mirror: A Review of Studies Testing the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

 

Chelsey Fedchenko

Co-supervisor with Dr. Lewis at the University of Guelph

Project: The Framing of Nonsuicidal Self-injury as an Addiction