Professional experience & accomplishments
Dr. Camila Rivera-Morales teaches about psychosocial aspects of health and illness. She provides trauma-informed and culture-informed psychotherapy in Spanish and English to children, adolescents and adults, most of whom identify as members of a stigmatized or underserved group. Her specialty areas and research interests include: the intergenerational transmission of trauma, the influence of personality structure on thought process and behavior, clinician-patient dynamics in the treatment of psychotic spectrum disorders, and sociocultural consideration in treatment. Her doctoral dissertation examined the relationships between intergenerational childhood maltreatment, parenting styles, neighborhood conditions, community threat and violence, acculturation, and racial and ethnic discrimination in a group of Latinx mothers.