Amanda Zayde, Psy D

Amanda Zayde, PsyD, is Director of the Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE) Program and Associate Director of Psychology Internship Training – Combined Track at Montefiore. She is also Co-Developer, Becoming an Emerging Adult at Montefiore (BEAM) and Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical interests are in mentalizing-focused parenting interventions, assessment and treatment of adolescents and emerging adults, and developmental psychopathology and attachment science. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts at the State University of New York at Albany in 2001, Dr. Zayde earned her Doctor of Psychology at the George Washington University in 2011. Her pre- and postdoctoral training took place at Yale University School of Medicine, first as a predoctoral psychology fellow from 2010 to 2011, then as a postdoctoral psychology associate from 2011 to 2012. Dr. Zayde is active in training and mentorship and has been recognized for her research. …She is Principal Investigator of the CARE program’s ongoing community-based clinical trial supported by the FAR Fund, and co-investigator for a series of research grants funded by the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health. She is a member of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Zayde’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and shown at national and international conferences. She also provides the news media with expert insights on relationships, stress management, parenting, emerging adulthood, and child psychology.