Annette La Greca

Annette La Greca is a distinguished professor of psychology and pediatrics and director of clinical training at the University of Miami. Her research focuses on risk and resilience factors that predict youth reactions to stressors, including hurricanes and peer victimization. She developed interventions that can be administered in schools to prevent post-traumatic stress in children exposed to disasters, and to prevent anxiety and depression in adolescents who are targets of peer/cyber victimization.