{"id":20,"date":"2016-05-24T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:56:45","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby L. Braitman, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/psychology\">Department of Psychology<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/\">Old Dominion University<\/a>.\u00a0 I teach and mentor students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/psychology\/graduate\/health-psychology\">Health Psychology<\/a> (Ph.D.), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/psychology\/graduate\/clinicalpsycphd\/faculty\">Clinical Psychology<\/a> (Ph.D.), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/academics\/programs\/masters\/psychology\">Experimental Psychology<\/a> (M.S.) graduate programs.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about my research lab <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/alcohollab\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0<strong>research interests<\/strong> focus on risky health behaviors among emerging adults, particularly heavy episodic alcohol use among emerging adults. I explore the etiology of risk behaviors as well as developing techniques to strengthen and extend effects for interventions directed at harm reduction.\u00a0 Specifically, I am interested in identifying technology-based techniques easily adoptable at institutions for mass implementation.\u00a0 Additionally, I have a strong interest in quantitative methods, especially longitudinal data analysis, leading to many collaborations that address health disparities in high risk populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Old Dominion University.\u00a0 I teach and mentor students in the Health Psychology (Ph.D.), Clinical Psychology (Ph.D.), and Experimental Psychology (M.S.) graduate programs. You can learn more about my research&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3090,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/abraitma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}