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Contact Susan Trumbetta
Susan Trumbetta earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, her M. Div. from Yale University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral training at Dartmouth Medical School. Her research interests are in the general area of experimental psychopathology, and include behavior genetics, clinical psychology, forensic psychology, and health psychology.
Ms. Trumbetta's research in behavior genetics considers genetic and environmental contributions to marital history. Recent papers in collaboration with colleagues at UVA explore potential endophenotypes underlying marital status as well as genetic and environmental relationships between marital history and psychiatric disorders. Her work in clinical psychology focuses on severe mental illness (SMI), particularly schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Her recent publications include a longitudinal study of social networks and substance use among persons with SMI, a review of cognitive and social skills impairments among persons with schizophrenia, and an exploration of schizophrenia-related language deficits among Deaf, signing persons. She is also involved collaboratively with the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center in studies of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among persons with SMI.
Ms. Trumbetta's experience in forensic psychology includes two years training at UVA's Institute for Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy (ILPPP) and collaborative work with ILPPP and the FBI on a study of serial rape funded by the National Institutes of Justice. In the area of health psychology, she has collaborated on two studies of HIV risk behaviors, and has begun a behavioral genetic study of marital and health histories based on data from the NAS-NRC World War II Veteran Twin Registry.