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 (PERL)

I am currently accepting applications for the Fall of 2025. 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 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.

  • 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
    • 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