Amy Egbert

Assistant Professor

Psychological Sciences

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Education

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 2020, Loyola University of Chicago

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Research Interests

Dr. Egbert’s research focuses on how the way that youth cope with and respond to social stressors influences the development of psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on stressors related to some aspect of identity (race, gender, sexual orientation, etc…). Much of Dr. Egbert’s work has focused on how response to discriminatory experiences may impact disordered eating in youth from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds. She is also interested in how exposure to social stressors may influence the development of transdiagnostic traits of psychopathology, like disinhibition. As an extension of this work, Dr. Egbert aims to develop targeted interventions to help youth foster adaptive coping skills that may prevent the development of psychopathology, as well as developing adjunctive treatment that may help to augment existing mental health concerns.

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Representative Publications

Egbert, A.H. & Schram, S.* (in press). Early intervention for eating disorders: A call to action for inclusion of minoritized groups. Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention.

Egbert, A.H., Irizarry, B., Lualdi, E., Tortolani, C.C., Ph.D., Donaldson, D.L., & Goldschmidt, A.B. (2024). A qualitative assessment of provider-perceived barriers to implementing family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa in low-income community settings. Journal of Eating Disorders, 12(51).

Egbert, A.H., Hunt, R., Williams, K., Burke, N., & Jennings, K.M. (2022). Reporting racial and ethnic diversity in eating disorder research over the past 20 years. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 55(4), 455-462.

Egbert, A.H., Smith, K.E., Ranzenhofer, L., Goldschmidt, A.B., & Hilbert, A. (2022). The role of affective instability in loss of control eating in youth with overweight/obesity across development: Findings from two EMA studies. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (formerly Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology), 50, 945-957.

Distel, L.M.L., Egbert, A.H., Bohnert, A.M., & Santiago, C.D. (2019). Chronic stress and food insecurity: Examining key environmental family factors related to BMI among low-income Mexican origin youth. Family & Community Health, 42(3), 213-220.