Rate My Professor Melissa Dudley

Dr. Dudley serves as Internship Coordinator for Alfred University's School Psychology programs (MA/CAS and PsyD) and teaches graduate courses such as Foundations of Interpersonal Effectiveness, Internship in School Psychology, Supervision and Administration of Psychological Services, Social Emotional Assessment, and Norm-Referenced Assessment. She provides clinical supervision to master's-, doctoral-, and post-doctoral-level students. Her academic interests center on school-based prevention and intervention, promoting protective factors for youth, and social-emotional assessment. Key publications include her lead-authored paper "Mother-Adolescent Agreement Concerning Peer Victimization: Predictors and Relation to Coping" (Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2023); "School-based child abuse prevention: The role of school climate in intervention outcomes for teachers" (Psychology in the Schools, 2022), as corresponding author; and "Development and Initial Evaluation of a Cost-effective, Internet-based Bullying Bystander Intervention for Elementary School Students" (Psychology in the Schools, 2022). In 2024, she received an American Psychological Association Early Career Service Grant for a project offering pro bono autism spectrum disorder evaluations to rural underserved communities. She also serves on Alfred University's Human Subjects Research Committee.