Assistant Professor | gersteine@umsl.edu | 314-516-5398
Dr. Emily Gerstein earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a child and family emphasis from Arizona State University in 2012 and completed a clinical internship at Rush University Medical Center. She then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Waisman Center for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Gerstein’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of developmental psychopathology, family systems, and risk and resilient processes in children with early-identified developmental risk. Her work has primarily focused on families of children born preterm and children with global developmental delays. Specifically, Dr. Gerstein is examining the following:
- how developmental risk affects different aspects of the family, including parental stress and well-being, parenting processes, parent-child relationships, and family interactions
- how developmental risk affects child social emotional processes and development of comorbid psychopathology
- how the connections between familial processes and child social emotional development are affected by risk
She is particularly interested in using observational data with families of children with developmental risk, and her research spans from the transition to parenthood to the transition to elementary school.
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About Emily Gerstein
Dr. Emily Gerstein earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a child and family emphasis from Arizona State University in 2012 and completed a clinical internship at Rush University Medical Center. She then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Waisman Center for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Gerstein’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of developmental psychopathology, family systems, and risk and resilient processes in children with early-identified developmental risk. Her work has primarily focused on families of children born preterm and children with global developmental delays. Specifically, Dr. Gerstein is examining the following:
- how developmental risk affects different aspects of the family, including parental stress and well-being, parenting processes, parent-child relationships, and family interactions
- how developmental risk affects child social emotional processes and development of comorbid psychopathology
- how the connections between familial processes and child social emotional development are affected by risk
She is particularly interested in using observational data with families of children with developmental risk, and her research spans from the transition to parenthood to the transition to elementary school.
| Present | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Department of Psychological Sciences | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Child Psychology, Parent-child and Family Relationships, Children Born Premature, Children with Intellectual Disabilities, Parental Stress and Depression, Social-emotional Development, Developmental Delays, Developmental Psychopathology, Prematurity, Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES), Structural Equation Modeling, Latent Class Analysis, Path Analysis, SPSS, and MPlus
Grants
| 2016 - 2017 | Identifying Risk and Protective Factors in Black Families of Toddlers with Developmental Delays |
| College of Arts and Sciences Research Award | |
| Role: Principal Investigator | |
| $12,499 | |
| 2012 - 2014 | : Post-Doctoral Training in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
| National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - 5T32 HD007489 | |
| Role: Postdoctoral Fellow | |
| Colleague(s): Marsha Mailick | |
| 2009 - 2011 | Exploring Family Systems Influences on Children at Risk: An Observational Approach |
| National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - 5F31 MH087033 | |
| Role: Principal Investigator | |
| $76,036 | |
| 2008 - 2009 | Research Training in Child Mental Health/Primary Prevention |
| National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - 5T32 MH018387 | |
| Role: Predoctoral Fellow | |
| Colleague(s): Laurie Chassin |
Honors and Awards
- UMSL College of Arts and Sciences Professional Travel Grant (2015)
- Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Travel Award (2015)
- UM-St. Louis Office of Research Administration Travel Award (2014)
- David Zeaman Student Travel Award for the Gatlinburg Conference (2010)
- Society for Research in Child Development Student Travel Award (2009)
- Arizona State University Psychology Department Travel Award (2008, 2009)
- Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College (2003)
- Cum Laude, Smith College (2003)
- Shultz Foundation Fellowship, Smith College (2002)
- Psi Chi National Honor Society, Smith College (2002)
- Academic Dean’s List, Smith College (1999-2003)