Amy Roy

Professor of Psychology
Director of Clinical Training
Curriculum Vitae

Email: [email protected]

Rose Hill Campus: Dealy Hall, Room 418
Phone: 718-817-0969

Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab

- 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.
Using multiple biological and behavioral methods to examine the neurocognitive bases of behavioral and emotional concerns in children and adolescents, with a focus on ADHD and anxiety disorders.
- Neural basis of emotion dysregulation in young children with severe temper outbursts
- Neurocognitive models of pediatric anxiety disorders, particularly generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Assessment of emotion regulation and temper outbursts in childhood
- Assessment of parent factors influencing responses to child outbursts
- 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
- F. Xavier Castellanos, MD, NYU Child Study Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
- Ellen Leibenluft, MD, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD
- Michael Milham, MD, PhD, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY
- Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, PhD Hunter College, CUNY
- Carrie Masia-Warner, PhD, Montclair State University
- Roy, A.K., Breaux, R., Sciberras, E., Patel, P., Ferrara, E.*, Shroff, D.M., Cash, A.R., Dvorsky, M.R., Langberg, J.M., Quach, J., Melvin, G., Jackson, A., Becker, S.P. (in press). A preliminary examination of key strategies, challenges, and benefits of remote learning expressed by parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. School Psychology.
- Silverman, M.R.*, Bennett, R., Feuerstahler, L., Stadterman, J., Dick, A.S., Graziano, P., & Roy, A.K. (in press). Measuring emotion dysregulation in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Revisiting the factor structure of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC). Behavior Therapy.
- Hong, S.J., Sisk, L., Caballero, C., Mekhanik, A.*, Roy, A.K., Milham, M.P., & Gee, D.G. (2021). Decomposing complex links between the childhood environment and brain structure in school-aged youth. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100919.
- Hirsch, E.*, Davis, K.*, Cao, Z.*, & Roy, A.K. (2021). Understanding phasic irritability: Anger and distress in children’s temper outbursts. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01126-5.
- Arfuso, M.*, Salas, R., Castellanos, F.X., & Roy, A.K. (2021). Evidence of altered habenular intrinsic functional connectivity in pediatric ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders, 5, 749- 757. doi:10.1177/1087054719843177.
- Roy, A.K., & Comer, J.S. (2020). Advances in the Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment of Pediatric Irritability. Behavior Therapy, 51, 207- 210. https://doi:10.1016/j.beth.2019.10.010.
- DeSerisy, M.*, Musial, A.*, Comer, J.S., & Roy, A.K. (2020). Functional connectivity of the anterior insula associated with intolerance of uncertainty in youth. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 493- 502. doi: 10.3758/s13415-020-00780-x
- Stadterman, J.*, Belthoff, K.*, Han, Y., Kadesh, A.D.*, Yoncheva, Y., & Roy, A.K. (2020). A preliminary investigation of the effects of a Western diet on hippocampal volume in children. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2020.00058
- DeSerisy, M.*, Hirsch, E.* & Roy, A. K. (2019). Role of Sensory Sensitivity in the Relationship between Symptoms of ADHD and Emotion Regulation Ability in Young Children. Evidence-based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 4, 319- 327. doi:10.1080/23794925.2019.1647122
- Dennis-Tiwary, T., Roy, A.K., Denefrio, S., & Myruski, S. (2019). Heterogeneity of the anxiety-related attention bias: A review and working model for future research. Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 879-899. doi.org/10.1177/2167702619838474