ESTI ITURRALDE
CURRICULUM VITAE
MARCH 2013
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Psychology, SGM 501
University of Southern California (USC)
3620 South McClintock Way
Los Angeles, California 90089-1061
Telephone
(213) 740-2306
Fax
(213) 746-9082
Email
iturrald@usc.edu
EDUCATION
2014
(expected)
Doctoral program in Psychology
Clinical Science, Child and Family Track
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Advisor: Gayla Margolin, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Peer Talk: Influences on Adolescent Sexual Risk, Dating Aggression,
and Substance Use
2009
M.A., Psychology
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Thesis: Emotion Regulation as a Mechanism Linking Parents’ Marital Aggression to
Adolescent Behavioral Problems: A Longitudinal Analysis
2000
B.A., History of Science
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
2012
2011, 2013
2009
Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Travel Award
Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) Travel Award
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program,
Honorable Mention
2007–present College Doctoral Fellowship, USC
2007–2008
Jonathan and Faye Kellerman Fellowship, USC
2000
Harvard College Research Fellowship
1996–2000
Harvard College Scholarship
GRANTS
2011-2014
Principal Investigator, NIH F31 Predoctoral National Research Service Award
Sponsor: Gayla Margolin, Ph.D.
Project Title: Peer Talk Influence on Adolescent Sexual Risk, Dating Aggression &
Substance Use
Funding: $106,918 (stipend and institutional allowance) over 3 years
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Iturralde, E., Margolin, G., & Shapiro, L. A. S. (in press). Positive and negative interactions
observed between siblings: Moderating effects for children exposed to parents’ conflict. Journal of
Research on Adolescence.
Kellerman, I., Margolin, G., Borofsky, L. A., Baucom, B. R., & Iturralde, E. (in press). Electronic
aggression among emerging adults: Motivations and contextual factors. Emerging Adulthood.
Saxbe, D.E., Margolin, G., Shapiro, L. A. S., Iturralde, E., Rodriguez, A.R., & Ramos, M.C. (in
press). Relative influences: Patterns of HPA axis concordance during triadic family interaction.
Health Psychology.
Baucom, B. R., Saxbe, D. E., Ramos, M. C., Spies, L. A., Iturralde, E., Duman, S., & Margolin, G.
(2012). Correlates and characteristics of adolescents’ encoded emotional arousal during family
conflict. Emotion, 12(6), 1281-1291.
Margolin, G., Vickerman, K. A., Ramos, M. C., Duman Serrano, S., Gordis, E. B., Iturralde, E.,
Oliver, P. H., & Spies, L. A. (2009). Youth exposed to violence: Stability, co-occurrence, and
context. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 12, 39-54.
Other
Margolin, G., Spies, L. A., & Iturralde, E. (2010). Co-occurrence of victimization. In B. S. Fisher &
S. P. Lab (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
In Preparation
Iturralde, E., & Margolin, G. Adolescents’ discussions with friends about sex: Assumptions worth
questioning. (Successfully defended to qualifying exam committee; revision in progress.)
Iturralde, E., & Margolin, G. Adolescents observed talking to their friends: Risky and protective
associations with sexual risk behavior. (Data collected and coded; analyses in progress.)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Symposia
Saxbe, D.E., Ramos, M.C., Iturralde, E., Shapiro, L. A. S., Rodriguez, A.R., & Margolin, G. (2013,
April). Conflict and synchrony: Understanding within-family patterns of HPA axis activation during
family conflict. In R. Lucas-Thompson (Chair), Mechanisms and moderators of the relation between family
conflict and children’s health. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research
on Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, WA.
Baucom, B. R., & Iturralde, E. (2012, December). A behaviorist manifesto for the 21st century. Paper
presented by second author at the Annual Summit and Conference of the Asia-Pacific Signal and
Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Los Angeles, CA.
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Baucom, B. R., Iturralde, E., Lee, C. C., Georgiou, P., Narayanan, S., & Margolin, G. (2012,
November). Multisystemic family aggression and dynamic emotional processes during triadic family
interaction. In S. Weusthoff (Chair), Applied speech signal processing methods in couple and family research.
Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive
Therapies (ABCT), National Harbor, MD.
Kellerman, I., Guran, E., Iturralde, E., & Margolin, G. (2011, October). The association between
early family risk, electronic use, and electronic aggression among emerging adults and their dating
partners. In J. Connell & B. Louis (Co-Chairs), Family communication and functioning in emerging adults.
Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood
(SSEA), Providence, RI.
Iturralde, E., Spies, L. A., Duman, S., Guran, E., Manis, C., Oliver, P. H., & Margolin, G. (2010,
March). Here mom and dad go again: Conflict between parents and interactions between siblings. In
J. H. Grych (Chair), The spillover effect of family conflict: Adolescents’ perceptions and adjustment. Symposium
conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Philadelphia,
PA.
Posters
Burgess, C. M., Iturralde, E., & Margolin, G. (2013, May). Adolescents' and parents' perspective
taking: Associations with adolescent alienation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association
for Psychological Science (APS), Washington, D.C.
Iturralde, E., & Margolin, G. (2013, April). Peer norms versus peer talk: Additive and interactive associations
with adolescents’ risk behavior. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on
Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, WA.
Iturralde, E., Wong, J. D., Kellerman, I., Gillman, A., Hossepian, K., & Margolin, G. (2013, April).
Peer aggression online and off: Links with how adolescents talk face-to-face with close friends. Poster presented at
the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, WA.
Iturralde, E., Elmgren, S., Wong, J. D., & Margolin, G. (2012, March). Friends’ deviant and supportive
talk: Links with adolescent risk behavior. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for
Research on Adolescence (SRA), Vancouver, British Columbia.
Iturralde, E., Spies, L., & Margolin, G. (2012, March). Teens talking to friends: Co-rumination, social
support, and internalizing symptoms. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research
on Adolescence (SRA), Vancouver, British Columbia.
Iturralde, E., Kellerman, I., Guran, E., & Margolin, G. (2011, April). Risky friends, aggressive lovers:
Associations with adolescent sexual risk. Poster presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological
Association (WPA), Los Angeles, CA.
Iturralde, E., Saxbe, D., Bennett, D., Guran, E., & Margolin, G. (2011, April). Family aggression as a
longitudinal predictor of teen pregnancy and risky peer affiliation. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of
the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Montreal, Quebec.
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Baucom, B., Vickerman, K. A., Oliver, P. H., Ramos, M. C., Duman Serrano, S., Spies, L. A.,
Iturralde, E., & Margolin, G. (2010, November). Time-varying agreement in parent and child reports of child
violence exposure. Poster presented at the meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive
Therapies (ABCT), San Francisco, CA.
Iturralde, E., & Margolin, G. (2009, April). Exposure to marital aggression in adolescence: The role of
emotion regulation in behavioral outcomes. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for
Research on Child Development (SRCD), Denver, CO.
Ramos, M. C., Duman Serrano, S., Iturralde, E., Vickerman, K. A., & Margolin, G. (2009, April).
Violence exposure in young adolescents: Stability and co-occurrence. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of
the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Denver, CO.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2007–present Graduate Student Researcher, Family Studies Project, USC
Principal Investigator: Gayla Margolin, Ph.D.
Designed protocols and organized data collection on the two latter waves of a fivewave prospective longitudinal study of family processes and exposure to violence.
Collected interview, self-report, behavioral observation, and stress biomarker data
from a community sample of adolescents, their parents, and their peers. Developed a
behavioral coding system and trained undergraduate raters in its implementation.
2006–2007
Research Assistant, Sleep and Psychological Disorders Laboratory, University
of California, Berkeley.
Principal Investigator: Allison Harvey, Ph.D.
Activities included: clinical screening assessments; polysomnography (PSG) hookups
and recording for overnight sleep studies; psychophysiological hookup and data
analysis; and testing of patients with bipolar disorder and insomnia in an emotion
elicitation and regulation paradigm.
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
Oct. 2012
Guest lecture, USC. The parent-child relationship in the modern age. Psychology 464,
Psychology of Marriage and the Family.
Sept. 2012
Presentation, City Year Los Angeles. Help for the helper: Paying attention to your own
mental health needs during your service year. Training workshop for corps members.
Dec. 2011
Presentation, City Year Los Angeles. Trauma: What it is and ways to cope. Training
workshop for corps members.
Oct. 2011
Presentation, City Year Los Angeles. Let’s talk about “resistance”: Interpersonal
challenges and communication strategies. Training workshop for corps members.
Oct. 2011
Panel discussion, USC. Applying for the F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein pre-doctoral NIH NRSA:
What? Why? How? When? Department of Psychology.
May 2011
Presentation, City Year Los Angeles. Saying goodbye to City Year and to your kids.
Training workshop for corps members.
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Nov. 2010
Presentation, City Year Los Angeles. Introducing City Year’s partnership with USC.
Training workshop for corps members.
May 2010
Research talk, USC. Here mom and dad go again: Conflict between parents and interactions
between siblings. Leibovitz Research Conference, Department of Psychology.
Sept. 2009
Case presentation, USC. In panel discussion, Ongoing assessment of clinical cases and use of
the Internet. Department of Psychology.
April 2009
Guest lecture, USC. Childhood Disorders: Focus on ADHD. Psychology 360, Abnormal
Psychology.
March 2009
Spanish Language Presentation, Blazer Learning Center, Los Angeles. La disciplina con
los niños (Discipline with children). Training workshop for mothers.
March 2009
Guest lecture, USC. The parent-child relationship. Psychology 464, Psychology of
Marriage and the Family.
March 2009
Guest lecture, USC. Transition to parenthood. Psychology 464, Psychology of Marriage
and the Family.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010, 2011
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Mentor, USC Department of Psychology.
Instructed new graduate students participating in a two-day training seminar at the
start of the academic year.
Spring 2010
Teaching Assistant, USC, Psychology 100, Introduction to Psychology
Fall 2009
Teaching Assistant, USC, Psychology 314, Research Methods
Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, USC, Psychology 360, Abnormal Psychology
Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, USC, Psychology 464, Psychology of Marriage and the Family
Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant, USC, Psychology 100, Introduction to Psychology
CLINICAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
2010–present Graduate Student Psychotherapist, Mental Health Partnership with
Community Organizations, USC
Supervisor: Darby Saxbe, Ph.D.
Founding member of this outreach group, currently conducting individual and group
psychotherapy, and behavioral health workshops with City Year Los Angeles corps
members, who are devoting a year of service to under-resourced public schools. Also
conducting individual psychotherapy and transition-to-college workshops with highachieving but at-risk high school and college students enrolled in the One Voice
college attainment program. (Cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal orientations.)
2008–present Graduate Student Psychotherapy Trainee, Psychology Services Center, USC
Supervisors: Brian Baucom, Ph.D., Gayla Margolin, Ph.D., Berta Ortiz, Ph.D., and Bob Gore, Ph.D.
Training in cognitive-behavioral and family systems orientations with a formal
practicum in therapy with children, couples, and families. Experiences include:
couples and family therapy in English and Spanish; semi-structured intake interviews;
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individual therapy with children, adolescents, and adults; psychodiagnostic and
neuropsychological assessments; and DBT group facilitation.
2009–2010
Graduate Student Psychotherapy Trainee, Tingstad Older Adult Counseling
Center, USC
Supervisors: Joanne Steuer, Ph.D. and Tara Rose, Ph.D.
Practicum in long-term therapy with older adults and brief stress management
therapy with caregivers (cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal orientations).
2008
Graduate Student Assessment Extern, Bienvenidos Children’s Center,
Montebello, CA
Supervisor: Bruce Rush, Psy.D.
Administration of clinical interviews and psychodiagnostic assessment batteries for
low-income and court-referred children and adolescents in English and Spanish.
Scored and interpreted test results, wrote integrated assessment reports, presented
test results to families and interdisciplinary treatment teams.
2006–2007
Local Alameda County Board Member, United States Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA)
Reviewed community organization grant applications to determine allocation of
federal funds for homeless shelters and food pantries. Performed site visits.
2004–2007
Development Coordinator, Covenant House California, Oakland, California
Grant writing, program design and evaluation, volunteer management, event
coordination, and donor stewardship on behalf of program serving homeless and atrisk youth.
2003–2004
Intern, International Rescue Committee, Oakland, California
Counseling of refugees and asylees in resettlement and family reunification; SpanishEnglish translation and interviewing.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Graduate Student Co-reviewer for Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Journal of
Social and Personal Relationships
Professional Memberships (Student Level)
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)
Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD)
Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP)
Western Psychological Association (WPA)
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