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Faculty
-- Clinical Program Area
Elana
Gordis,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Office: Social Sciences 357
Phone: (518) 442-2582
Fax: (518) 442-4867
EMail: egordis@albany.edu
Research Lab: Child & Family Experiences Project
Curriculum
Vitae (pdf format) |
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Research Areas of Interest
My research examines the effects of family conflict and violence and child maltreatment
on children’s adjustment. I am particularly interested in whether the stress
of these family variables alters children’s responses to subsequent interpersonal
stress, either through sensitization, or alternatively through blunting of
stress response systems over time. Further, I examine whether such alterations
in children’s responses to stress mediate adjustment outcomes. My research
examines multiple stress response systems. I conduct observational studies
of behavioral responses to interpersonal stressors and family conflict. I also
examine psychobiological responses to interpersonal stressors (for example,
autonomic responses via skin conductance and heart rate, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
axis responses via salivary cortisol levels). Specific areas of interest follow.
 Effects
of Family Violence on Psychophysiological Arousal
Family
Violence & the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal
Axis Response
Chronicity of Violence Exposure & the Biological
Stress Response
The Stress Response in
Family Violence and Adjustment
Difficulties
Education
1998 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Southern California
1994 M.A., Psychology, University of Southern California
1992 B.A., Chemistry, Yale University |
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