
Sara Elkins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology,
College of Human Sciences and Humanities
Contact number: 281-283-3315
Email: elkins@uhcl.edu
Office: Bayou 2529.06
Biography
Sara Elkins, Ph.D., is an associate professor of clinical psychology. She earned her
doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee and completed a
pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine,
Texas Children's Hospital.
Her program of research focuses on behavioral interventions for externalizing problems
such as aggression, oppositionality and ADHD. In particular, the lab conducts outcome
studies of parent management training (PMT) treatments for ODD and ADHD, emphasizing
adaptations to increase parent acceptability (e.g., value-based parent management
training, technology-enhancements to increase access to care).
Dr. Elkins has experience conducting cognitive and behavioral interventions with adults,
teens and children. Her clinical specialty areas include parent management training
interventions for child disruptive behaviors and CBT treatment of child and adolescent
anxiety and mood disorders.
Currently, Dr. Elkins has an active research lab, and she is committed to mentoring
graduate student researchers in the master's Clinical Psychology and doctoral Health
Service Psychology programs. See her curriculum vitae for more information and a link
to the lab website. She will be taking doctoral students for the 2020-2021 academic
year.
Curriculum Vitae