Clinical Faculty

Faculty Research Interests

Andrea Bergman, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Emory, 1989
Development of empirically validated treatments for underserved populations, such as emerging adults who have dropped out of high school and are experiencing multiple problems (e.g., exposure to trauma and substance abuse); phenomenology and comorbidity in psychopathology.

Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D., Professor, Rutgers, 1989

Health psychology; minority mental health and the impact of ethnic discrimination; stress management; conflict reduction; evaluation of treatment programs.

Elissa Brown, Ph.D., Professor, University at Albany, 1996

Developing, testing and disseminating therapies for children who have experienced traumatic events, such as 9/11 and child abuse.

William F. Chaplin, Ph.D., Professor, University of Oregon, 1981
Personality; psychometrics; data analysis; health psychology.

Beverly Greene, Ph.D., Professor, Derner, Adelphi, 1983

Gender ethnic, cultural and sexuality issues in human development and in the psychotherapy process.

Rafael Art. Javier, Ph.D., Professor, New York University, 1982
Psycholinguistics; autobiographical memory and bilingualism; relation of aggression and moral reasoning in adolescents.

Wilson McDermut, Ph.D., Associate Professor, American, 1995
Personality disorders; depressive disorders; assessment of personality and psychopathology; cognitive-behavioral therapy for depressive and anxiety disorders; family factors in mood and personality disorders; comorbidity.

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., Professor and Clinical Director, SUNY Albany, 1976
Health psychology; cognitive-behavioral therapy; smoking cessation; teaching of psychology; philosophical bases of systems of psychotherapy and measurement of implicit attitudes and cognitions.

Frank Patalano, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fordham, 1975
Psychoanalytic theory and therapy; personality assessment; supervision of psychotherapy; attachment and intimacy issues in human relationships.

Alice W. Pope, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State, 1986

Developmental psychopathology; peer relations and self-perceptions of children and adolescents.