Rutgers GSAPP New Brunswick
GSAPP Faculty

Joint Appointment Faculty (Rutgers University)

Marta Aizenman: psychodynamic orientation in individual and group psychotherapy; cross-cultural therapy; treatment of incest victims; issues in violence, acquaintance rape; women and sexuality
Email: aizenman@aesop.rutgers.edu

Maurice J. Elias: community psychology; child and adolescent clinical psychology; design and evaluation of primary preventive interventions; school-based action research; social problem solving; social-ecological theory; "emotional intelligence"; social-emotional learning; Jewish education and identity development
Email: rutgersmje@aol.com

Beth Epstein: etiology and treatment of substance abuse and related personality disorders; marital therapy; alcohol subtypes; etiology of psychopathology; cognitive-behavioral treatment of substance abuse
Email: bepstein@rci.rutgers.edu

Peter Guarnaccia: medical anthropology; cross-cultural patterns of psychiatric disorders; family strategies for coping with chronic illness; psychiatric epidemiology among Latinos
Email: guarnaccia@aesop.rutgers.edu

Tom Morgan: cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment; behavioral couples treatment, time-limited interventions; training/supervision of addiction's counselors; retention/engagement in substance abuse interventions; dissemination of empirically supported treatments to real world settings, and assessment of treatment processes
Email: tjmorgan@rci.rutgers.edu

Rob Pandina: psychopharmacology and neuropsychology, experimental and clinical; alcohol and drug dependence longitudinal studies; forensic psychology; sports psychology
Email: rpandina@rci.rutgers.edu

Brent Ruben: theoretical and applied research on the nature and functions of human communication in interpersonal, organizational, health, intercultural, and educational settings; organizational assessment and improvement in higher education
Email: ruben@odl.rutgers.edu

George Wagner: animal studies on the neuropathology, neuropharmacology, and possible etiology of Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and autism
Email: gcwagner@rci.rutgers.edu

David Wilder: social categorization and intergroup relations; stereotypes and group identities; issues resolving prejudices created by intergroup conflict; construction of people and their representations of social groups; how membership in groups affects self-consciousness
Email: dawilder@rci.rutgers.edu