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Alytia Levendosky is a Professor and Co-Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, as well as an MA in Clinical Psychology and a BA in Biological Anthropology from Harvard-Radcliffe College. Her main research focuses on the impact of intimate partner violence on mother-child relationships, particularly how prenatal stress affects children's emotional regulation. Dr. Levendosky's work explores the mechanisms through which intimate partner violence is transmitted across generations and the psychological and physiological aspects of this transmission. She is also involved in a longitudinal study examining the timing of prenatal stress and its differential effects on infants' early emotional regulation and psychopathology. Her scholarship emphasizes evidence-based relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, and she works with therapy dyads at the MSU Psychological Clinic to understand interpersonal dynamics during therapy sessions.
Department of Psychology