Maureen A. Allwood received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005. She joined the faculty of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in fall 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Before joining the faculty at John Jay she completed a predoctoral clinical internship at the Boston Consortium and a NIMH funded postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown Medical School. Dr. Allwood’s research interests focus on children and adolescents’ emotional, behavioral and physiological response to trauma and violence (e.g., war, domestic, community violence), including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and delinquent behaviors. She is also interested in integrating and developing innovative research methodology designed to improve the early detection of trauma-exposed youth who are at risk for maladaptive outcomes (e.g., delinquency, problematic substance use, suicidality).
Dr. Allwood is also interested in minority, immigrant, and refugee mental health issues.
