Elissa Rosebraugh, PLMHP

Psychology
Munroe-Meyer Institute
985450 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5450

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Professional Summary

Elissa Rosebraugh, MA, PLMHP, is a predoctoral intern in the Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Psychology at UNMC and provides services at Western Nebraska Behavioral Health. Elissa is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Wichita State University. As an intern at MMI, Elissa serves rural and underserved populations in the western panhandle of Nebraska. Western Nebraska Behavioral Health is generalist in nature and sees a variety of behavioral concerns across the lifespan. However, Elissa holds a clinical interest in treating and assessing children and adolescents. 

Prior to her time at MMI, Elissa has provided evidence-based care in a variety of environments including a community mental health center, an academic medical school, an inpatient unit, and a low-income outpatient clinic. Elissa has clinical training in academic, psychological, and neurodevelopmental assessments and often utilizes behaviorally based interventions such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Parent Management Training (PMT).

Specialty Certifications

• Provisionally Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (PLMHP) - pending

Education

• PhD, Wichita State University – Wichita, KS, in progress – expected 2023
• MA, Wichita State University – Wichita, KS, 2020
• BA, Wichita State University – Wichita, KS, 2016

Teaching

• Direct Graduate Instructor
  • Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology (2019-Present)
  • Honors Introduction to General Psychology (2021-2020)
  • Psychological Statistics (2018-2020)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Honors Introduction to General Psychology (2021-Present)
  • Special Investigations: Lunch Buddy Mentoring (2019)
• Invited Lecturer
  • Introduction to R (2018; 2022)

Research Interests and Projects

• Research Interests: children, adolescents, and young adults; bullying, dating violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, stealthing; parent-child relationships; healthy and unhealthy relationships in childhood
• Dissertation: Moral Disengagement, Empathy, and Bidirectional Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study

Selected Publications

• Gregus, S. J., Hernandez Rodriguez, J., Faith, M. A., & Failes, E. (2021). Parenting & children’s psychological adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic. School Psychology Review, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/2372966X.2021.1880873
• Gregus, S.J., Failes, E., Ramirez, E., Harrington, R. & Schwartz-Mette, R. (2020). Intervening with adults. D.W. Nangle, C.A. Erdley, R. Schwartz-Mette (Eds.), Social skills across the life-span. Elsevier.
• Failes, E., Ali, E., & Gregus, S. (in press). Moral disengagement as a conceptual framework for understanding intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization. Manuscript under review.
• Failes, E., Ali, E., & Gregus, S. (in press). Moral disengagement and bidirectional intimate partner violence in college students. Manuscript submitted for publication.
• Demers, J., Defrain, M., & Failes, E. (in press). Assessing the generalizability of the Reasons for Disclosing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Scale in an online context: An argument for the addition of an activism subscale. Manuscript under review.

Professional Affiliations

• American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Division 53 - Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
  • Division 35 - Society for the Psychology of Women
  • Division 16 - School Psychology
  • Division 7 - Developmental Psychology
  • Division 37 - Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice
• Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• National Association for Rural Mental Health

Awards

• WSU Graduate Student Council Research Fellowship Award (2021)
• Community-Clinical Psychology Graduate Student of the Year Award (2021)
• Dora Wallace Hodgson Endowed Fellowship Award (2020)
• Research Fellowship Award (2020)
• The James Snyder Award for Outstanding Research in Community-Clinical Psychology (2019)