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Elaine JohnsonAssistant Teaching Professor

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Johnson completed her B.A in Psychology at the City College of New York in 2017. She received her M.A and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Emory University in 2023. She completed her clinical internship at the Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Mood Program within Emory's School of Medicine and a postdoctoral fellowship in Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy at Peachtree Integrated Psychology. She holds several years of expertise in teaching, advising and mentoring students to help them further their professional development and currently serves as the director of the Psychology in the British Isles study abroad program.

research

Research Interests

Identifying risk and protective factors that affect critical periods of development across the lifespan.

Research Areas 

Dr. Johnson’s current research projects are focused on maternal stress and infant and child neurodevelopment, internalizing psychopathology in adolescents, and wellness outcomes in college aged students.

Teaching

· PSYC 111: Introduction to Psychology II

· PSYC 190: Science of Wellbeing

· PSYC 190: Psychology of Social Media

· PSYC 200W Experimental Methods

· PSYC 211: Child Psychopathology

· PSYC 330: Personality Theories

· PSYC 386W: Cross Cultural Studies in Psychology Research

· PSYC 387W: Advanced Cross Cultural Studies in Psychology Research

· PSYC 498R: Special Topics in Psychology

Publications