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Joshua Clapp, Ph.D.

jclapp@uwyo.edu

307-766-6304

Hometown: Kinnear, WY

Graduate Program: University at Buffalo - SUNY 

Clinical Internship: Medical University of South Carolina

Research Interests:

  • Patterns of response to psychosocial intervention

  • The impact of trauma on interpersonal functioning

  • Lay theories of trauma and its consequences

  • Issues related to the conceptualization and assessment of trauma-related psychopathology

Curriculum Vitae

 

CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Adam Ripley, M.S.

aripley@uwyo.edu

Hometown:  Russiaville, IN 

Undergraduate: Cedarville University

Research Interests:

  • Relations of trauma with anger and aggression

  • Risk factors for the development of PTSD

Curriculum Vitae

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Shira Kern, M.A.

skern1@uwyo.edu

Hometown: Seal Beach, CA

Undergraduate: San Diego State University

Research Interests:

  • Mechanisms in the relation of PTSD and interpersonal outcomes

  • Treatment-related outcomes among individuals with PTSD and co-occurring substance use disorders.

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

 

RYAN KOZINA, M.S.

rkozina@uwyo.edu

Hometown: Sacramento, CA

Undergraduate: University of Oregon

Research Interests:

  • The interrelation of PTSD and attachment.

  • How perceptions of betrayal can affect post-trauma outcomes.

  • How public perception of trauma and its sequelae impacts survivors.

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Layla Elmi, B.S.

lelmi@uwyo.edu

Hometown: San Diego, CA

Undergraduate: UC San Diego

Research Interests:

  • Relations of trauma with interpersonal functioning

  • Trauma disclosure and related stigma








Alicia Bachtel, M.A.

abachtel@uwyo.edu

Hometown:

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Research Interests:

  • Relations of trauma with interpersonal functioning

  • Trauma disclosure and related stigma





















 

AFFILIATED Lab Members

Stephanie Bachtelle Stacy, PhD.

Graduate Mentor: Carolyn Pepper

Hometown: Tustin, CA

Undergraduate: Chapman University

Research Interests:

  • Emotional impact of the physical consequences of self-injury

  • Sex differences in the behavioral characteristics of self-injury

  • Lay theories of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury

 

Kati Lear, M.S.

Graduate Mentor: Carolyn Pepper

Hometown: Charleston, SC

Undergraduate: DePauw University

Research Interests:

  • Self-referential cognitive and emotional processes as maintenance factors in nonsuicidal self-injury

  • Identifying therapeutically relevant mechanisms in the relation between acute risk factors and suicidal behavior