Tiffany Abrego

Tiffany Abrego

Associate Professor

313-577-4812

tiffany.abrego@wayne.edu

Rands BuildingĀ 

Department

Psychology, Psychology Clinic

Tiffany Abrego

Dr. Tiffany Abrego has a joint appointment in the Clinical Ph.D. program and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan (BGCSM). At Wayne State, she is primarily at the Psychology Clinic and supervises psychological assessment and therapy cases, in addition to supervising the Dialectival Behavior Therapy (DBT) program. At BGCSM, she the executive director of the mental health program. The program includes individual therapy, group therapy, parent training, staff training and consultation, and sports psychology. In addition, BGCSM is a training site for psychology doctoral students. Her research focus is on outomes of our community programming at BGCSM and social justice topics, in addition to obesity and executive dysfunction research.

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

  • Clinical child psychology
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders: primarily ADHD and autism spectrum disordersĀ 
  • Executive dysfunction
  • Pediatric psychology: obesity, GI, endocrinology, differences of sex development

Education

  • Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
  • Michigan Licensed Psychologist, 2015
  • Illinois Licensed Clinical Psychologist

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Courses taught by Tiffany Abrego

Winter Term 2025 (future)

Winter Term 2024

Spring-Summer Term 2023