Amy Roy

Professor of Psychology
Director of Clinical Training
Curriculum Vitae

Email: [email protected]

Rose Hill Campus: Dealy Hall, Room 226C
Phone: 718-817-0969

Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab (PERL)

I will be accepting a student for the Fall of 2026. Successful students in the PERL lab: 

  • Have a strong interest in studying emotional and behavioral dysregulation in children and adolescents and/or associated parent factors
  • Have worked previously in a research lab for at least two years
  • Have worked with children and/or adolescents and/or families
  • Possess strong writing and analytical skills
    • 1994 BA with honors in Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
    • 1999 MA in Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
    • 2003 PhD in Clinical Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (APA Approved)
      Dissertation: The role of parent and child perceptions of readiness for change, problem severity, and treatment acceptability in the pursuit of treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

  • Understanding the etiological mechanisms of emotion dysregulation in youth as well as factors impacting parental responses to their child's strong emotions. Current/recent projects include:

    • Examination of physiological markers of social frustration in young adolescents
    • Examination of cognitive, emotional, and contextual factors that impact maternal responses to child emotional outbursts
    • Collaborative work with faculty in the Psychology and Physics departments to examine associations between air pollution levels and child behavioral, emotional, and academic outcomes
    • Utilizing secondary data analyses to explore the utility of functional brain asymmetry measures to understand irritability and anxiety in youth
    • Introduction to Neuroscience
    • Developmental Psychopathology
    • Clinical Child Psychology
    • Clinical Supervision
    • Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Member
    • FLUX: The Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Member
    • American Psychological Association, Division 53, Member
    • Society for Research in Child Development

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  • Leibenluft, E., Allen, L., Althoff, R., … Roy, A.K., …Stringaris, A. (2024). Irritability in
    youth: A critical integrative review. American Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 275- 290.
    https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230256.

    Ferrara, E.*, Lee, H., Stadterman Guarecuco, J.*, Somekh, M.R.*, Hirsch, E.*, Keesey, R.*,
    Cham, H., Hoyt, L.T., & Roy, A.K. (2024). Novel assessment of the impact of irritability on
    physiological and psychological frustration responses in adolescents. Journal of Clinical
    Child and Adolescent Psychology, 53, 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2024.2301753

    Benda, M.*, DeSerisy, M., Levitch, C., & Roy, A.K. (2023). An investigation of the neural
    basis of anger attributions in irritable youth. Emotion, 24, 1068-1077. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001337

    Wiggins, J.L., Roy, A.K., Wakschlag, L.S. (2023). MAPping affective dimensions of
    behavior: Methodologic and pragmatic advancement of the Multidimensional Assessment
    Profiles scales. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 32, e1990. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1990

    Hirsch, E.*, Alam, T.*, Kirk, N.*, Bevans, K.B., Briggs-Gowan, M., Wakschlag, L.S.,
    Wiggins, J.L., & Roy, A.K. (2023). Developmentally specified characterization of the
    irritability spectrum at early school age: Implications for pragmatic mental health screening.
    International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1985

    Kirk, N.*, Hirsch, E.*, Alam, T.*, Wakschlag, L.S., Wiggins, J.L., & Roy, A.K. (2023). A
    pragmatic, clinically optimized approach to characterizing adolescent irritability: Validation
    of parent- and adolescent reports on the Multidimensional Assessment Profile Scales-
    Temper Loss Scale. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1986

    Alam, T.*, Kirk, N.*, Hirsch, E.*, Briggs-Gowan, M., Wakschlag, L.S., Roy, A.K., &
    Wiggins, J.L. (2023). Characterizing the spectrum of irritability in preadolescence:
    Dimensional and pragmatic applications. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric
    Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1988

    Vogel, A.C., Brotman, M.A., Roy, A.K., Perlman, S.B. (2022). Defining positive emotion
    dysregulation: Integrating temperamental and clinical perspectives. Journal of the American
    Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62, 297- 305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.06.019

    Davis, K.*, Hirsch, E.*, Gee, D., Andover, M., & Roy, A.K. (2022). Mediating role of the
    default mode network on parental acceptance/ warmth and psychopathology in youth. Brain
    Imaging and Behavior, 16(5), 2229- 2238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-022-00692-z

    Silverman, M.R.*, Stadterman, J.*, Lorenzi, D.*, Feuerstahler, L., Hirsch, E.*, & Roy, A.K.
    (2022). Parental factors that confer risk and resilience for remote learning outcomes during
    the COVID-19 pandemic among children with and without attention-deficit/ hyperactivity
    disorder. Journal of Attention Disorders, 26, 1381- 1393.