Postdoctoral Fellows

 

Amy Cunningham, Psy.D.

Dr. Cunningham received her Psy.D. in clinical psychology from La Salle University, and conducted her predoctoral clinical internship at Yale University School of Medicine. Her primary research interests involve the prevention and treatment of suicide and nonsuicidal self injury and the dissemination of evidenced based treatments. Her clinical interests include offering evidence-based treatments to individuals with borderline personality disorder. At the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center, she is the Program Director of the Beck Initiative. The Beck Initiative is training program designed to disseminate Cognitive Therapy to the community mental health clinicians in Philadelphia. In addition, Dr. Cunningham is a Co-Investigator on two ongoing research projects examining cognitive biases in suicidal and nonsuicidal individuals and examining community based interventions for suicidal individuals.

 

Emily Haigh, Ph.D.

Dr. Haigh received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Kent State University and conducted her predoctoral clinical internship at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario. Her primary research interests involve the investigation of cognitive vulnerabilities to depression, with an emphasis on examining the role of negative repetitive thought in the etiology of depression and anxiety. She is also interested in exploring mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based interventions; in particular, how these interventions influence the way an individual responds to emotional experiences and how this relates to relapse and recovery. At the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center, she serves as the project director for a study evaluating the use of Cognitive Therapy in the treatment of suicide attempters. Her clinical interests include offering cognitive behavioral interventions for mood, anxiety and borderline personality disorders.

Luke Schultz, Ph.D.

Dr. Schultz received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Temple University, and conducted his predoctoral clinical internship at the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY. His primary research interests involve the maintenance of anxiety and mood disorders, particularly through biased cognitive processes, such as attentional and inferential bias. His clinical interests include offering cognitive behavioral intervention for anxiety and mood disorders as well as schizophrenia. At the Aaron T.Beck Psychopathology Research Center, he serves as the project director for a study evaluating the use of Cognitive Therapy in the treatment of suicide attempters. He works on the Beck Initiative as well, consulting with and training community therapists on the implementation of Cognitive Therapy. He also serves as a study therapist on a trial investigating the use of Cognitive Therapy for negative symptoms and functioning in schizophrenia.

 

Rosanna Sposato, Psy.D.

Dr. Sposato received her Psy.D. in clinical psychology from La Salle University, and conducted her predoctoral clinical internship at Princeton House Behavioral Health, a part of the Princeton Medical Center. Her primary research interests involve the examination of psychological constructs implicated in the etiology and maintenance of psychological distress that will ultimately facilitate the refinement of existing psychological treatments. Her primary clinical interests include offering cognitive behavioral interventions for anxiety and mood disorders. At the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center, she works on the Beck Initiative, consulting with and training community therapists on the implementation of Cognitive Therapy. Additionally, she is collaborating in the development of an assessment tool that measures behavioral functioning in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia.