Office phone: 973-748-9000 ext. 646
E-mail: Elissa_Koplik@Bloomfield.edu
Mailing Address:
Psychology Department
Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Bloomfield College
467 Franklin Street
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Biographical Statement
Dr. Koplik is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Bloomfield College and is a practicing clinical psychologist. She earned her B.S. in psychology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (1981); her M.A. in clinical psychology at Fordham University(1983); and received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fordham University (1989). Dr. Koplik has been teaching at Bloomfield College and practicing as a psychologist at the Catholic Charities Diocese of Metuchen since January 1990.
Her interests include psychotherapy, psychodiagnostic evaluation, and health psychology from both the academic and clinical perspectives. She is most excited about teaching students abnormal psychology and the foundations of psychotherapy and counseling in both the classroom and internship settings, allowing her to share her passion about the field of clinical psychology.
Dr. Koplik brings to her students professional experiences from a variety of diverse settings in the metropolitan area including Bellevue Hospital, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Nassau County Medical Center (to name a few). Professor Koplik's principal areas of research have been in the relationship between stress, health, and coping skills as well investigating contributing factors in parental role satisfaction and anxiety in mother-child dyads. She enjoys teaching the research practicum which allows all psychology majors to conduct their own individual research projects from beginning to end. Dr. Koplik is a also the co-advisor of our active and enthusiastic Psychology Club.
Courses taught:
- General Psychology
- Abnormal Psychology
- Theories of Personality
- Applied Practicum in Psychology (Internship)
- Research Practicum in Psychology
- Foundations of Psychotherapy and Counseling
- Health Psychology
- Psychology of Gender
- Developmental Psychology
- The Myth of Mental Illness?
