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Dr. Elhai's research focus is in the
area of traumatic event exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). He holds several specialty interests within this area:
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Understanding PTSD's symptom structure
and high comorbidity (e.g., examining PTSD factor analytic models,
teasing apart PTSD's high co-occurrence and symptom overlap with other
mental disorders).
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Assessment of traumatic event exposure and PTSD
(e.g., exploring more sophisticated assessment methodologies for
linking PTSD assessment ratings to an index traumatic event, investigating the performance of newer assessment measures for trauma
victims and PTSD patients).
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Mechanisms underlying the development of
trauma-related pathology (e.g., examining PTSD and depression as
factors contributing to physical health problems, exploring coping
strategy use and relations to PTSD's development).
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Health services research for trauma victims and PTSD
patients (e.g., investigating medical and mental healthcare utilization
patterns and correlates, patient
satisfaction, and treatment outcome).
To download reprints of Dr.
Elhai's publications: Click Here
Dr. Elhai often accepts one first-year clinical graduate student into his research team each year
(in addition to occasionally accepting a limited number of undergraduate
psychology majors). Students applying to USD's clinical psychology Ph.D. program
interested in working with Dr. Elhai should contact him to inquire about
possible research team involvement:
Click Here. Students
who work with Dr. Elhai should be: a) highly motivated and interested in
collaborating on high-quality scientific research and publishing the
results, and b) interested in
a research area that is related to one or more of Dr. Elhai's research
objectives (above). Some preference is given to students who are
interested in academic/research careers, who prefer to obtain mentoring
for a career in research. (The student's extent of previous research
experience is less important)
For a listing of current and former major research advisees:
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For a listing of the statistical methods and
software packages Dr. Elhai and his research group use:
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