Petty Tineo

Petty Tineo is currently a third-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Montclair State University (MSU). She grew up in Paterson, NJ and holds an MA degree in Clinical Psychology from MSU and BS degree in Psychology from Seton Hall University. She has prior clinical experience working as a clinical extern in a community mental health clinic, college counseling center, and in private practice. Petty also serves on the Executive Board of the Latino Mental Health Association of New Jersey. Her research interests include multicultural psychology, acculturation of minority groups, depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation in young adults, understanding ethnic and cultural differences in exposure to traumatic events, and the long-term mental health outcomes in the aftermath of trauma.