Ph.D. Psychology Faculty & Staff

Faculty 

Deidre Anglin

The social epidemiology of psychosis: the relationship between race/ethnicity and endorsement of psychotic-like symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical populations; the stigma of mental health service utilization in African American populations and explanations for underutilization.

Eric Fertuck

Cognitive neuroscience of social psychopathology.

Elliot Jurist

Mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy; the relation between emotions and agency; addictions; ethics.

Sarah O'Neill

Predictors of symptom severity and adaptive functioning among children and adults with ADHD; how neuropsychological factors interact with environmental factors to affect trajectories of ADHD over time.

Diana Punales

Clinical experience in the areas of: Multicultural/Latino psychology; Psychology of women; Immigration trauma and acculturation, Severe psychopathology and medical illness.

Margaret Rosario

Identity, particularly sexual and gender identity, their etiology, development, and consequences for mental and physical health and other adaptational outcomes, as well as the moderating and mediating influences of psychosocial exigencies for understanding the relations between identity and outcomes.

Sasha Rudenstine

Manifestation of psychopathology over the life course with a particular focus on urban marginalized populations, psychological repercussions of cumulative trauma, patterns of psychiatric symptomatology, and how to apply a life course framework to clinical interventions.

 
The assessment of representations of self and other, and the affects and defense mechanisms stimulated by such representations in children, adolescents and adults; the links between such assessments and the adaptive use of psychotherapy in clinical populations; the utility of projective methods, most especially the Rorschach Inkblot Method and the Thematic Apperception Test, to studies of psychotherapy outcome.
 
 
Integration of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and experiential/emotion-focused approaches to therapy; applications of psychological theory and research to issues of race relations, materialism, inequality, and climate change; vicious/virtuous circles and reciprocal causal processes in personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy; implications of the findings of behavioral economics for understanding of personality dynamics.
 
 
The psychoanalytic process and psychoanalytic technique, specifically the measurement of changes in linguistic structures such as pronoun use, repetition, and metaphor as indicators of modifications in psychological structure during therapy.
 

Associated Faculty

Susan Bodnar

I maintain a general adolescent and young adult clinical practice utilizing dynamic and behavioral strategies. My research and writing interests examine how larger scale social forces - for example, cultural, environmental, and economic processes - intersect with the construction of an individual's psyche. 

Henry Kronengold

Children and adolescent psychotherapy; psychotherapy integration; developmental psychology; the role of play in therapy and development

Kathleen Isaac

Integrative treatment of adolescents & young Adults; medical trainees and professionals; Trauma informed psychotherapy; Racial identity; Gender and Sexuality; Intersections of sociocultural identity and psychotherapy; Racial literacy and liberation psychology; Religion & spirituality; Health psychology; Coping with chronic illness; Group psychotherapy

 

 

The Psychological Center Staff
 

Jennifer Coltaire
Admin Coordinator at the Psychological Center
 
Michelle Sandin 
Admin Coordinator at the Psychological Center
 
Bouchra
Administrative Specialist at the Psychological Center


Clinical Program Staff


Ph.D. Program Administrator
Email:  clinicalpsychphd@ccny.cuny.edu


Kat McNeal
Clinical Program Admissions Coordinator
Email:  clinicaladmissions@gmail.com
 


Clinical Supervisors
 

Esther Lee, Ph.D.

Santos Vales, Ph.D.

Last Updated: 04/16/2023 00:04