Alice S. Carter BS, PhD

Alice Carter is a Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology in the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, and a Research Associate in the Boston University Medical School Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. Dr. Carter majored in Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University, where she received her B.S.
She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Houston and completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston she was an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Yale University. Her primary area of research is infant, toddler, and preschool psychopathology, with an emphasis on early detection, characterization, and amelioration of social-emotional problems and delays in competence, including autism spectrum and anxiety disorders.