Core Clinical Faculty
See also : Part-Time Clinical Faculty
Paula Fite, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
pfite@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Child and adolescent aggression, delinquency, early substance use, parenting, peer relations, temperament.
Kristina Gordon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
kgordon1@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Betrayal and forgiveness, social information processing in marriage, emotion regulation in marriage
Len Handler, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - (Dr. Handler is not accepting new graduate students)
lhandler@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Personality assessment, psychodynamic psychotherapy, marital therapy, play therapy, neuropsychology
Derek Hopko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
dhopko@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Treatment of clinical depression, treatment of co-existent pathological and medical conditions, attentional processes among individuals with performance-based anxiety disorders, relations among anxious-responding and skill deficits as these relate to substandard performance in social and academic (testing) contexts
Jenny Macfie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
macfie@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Child development, attachment, self development, borderline personality disorder
Todd Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
tmoore24@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Substance use, intimate partner violence, gender role stress, and men's health
Wes Morgan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (Dr. Morgan is not accepting new graduate students)
wesmorgan@utk.edu | website
Research interests: "Special things" (collecting, esthetics, fetishism); graphic art in psychological testing; history of the Thematic Apperception Test
Micheal Nash, Ph.D.
Professor
mnash@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Hypnosis, psychodynamic therapy, the interface of literature with science and practice, the elements of change in psychotherapy, and how therapy skills can best be acquired by trainees
Deborah Rhatigan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
drhatiga@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Posttraumatic stress disorder and other negative psychological sequelae of violence exposure, risk and protective factors for re-abuse or re-victimization, and victim interventions for intimate partner violence.
Greg Stuart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
gstuart@utk.edu | website
Research interest: Etiology, prevention, and treatment of intimate partner violence, relationship distress, and addictions; overlap between relationship aggression and substance misuse; women's violence perpetration and victimization; subtypes of partner violent perpetrators; family violence across the life span; effectiveness research.
Robert Wahler, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - (Dr. Wahler is not accepting new graduate students)
rwahler@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Developmental processes in child conduct problems; family psychotherapy; attentional problems in children
Deborah Welsh, Ph.D.
Professor
dwelsh@utk.edu | website
Research interests: Adolescent romantic relationships, adolescent sexuality, aggression in dating relationships, video-recall procedures for observational research