Elisha Agee, PsyD

Dr. Agee is a forensic clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the ILPPP, within the UVA School of Medicine. As a clinician, she performs forensic evaluations (e.g., competency, sanity, violence risk, sexual offense recidivism risk) for state and federal courts, primarily in Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Some of her work involves assisting immigration proceedings or local social services. She is also a primary clinical supervisor in the ILPPP postdoctoral fellowship programs. Prior to being at ILPPP, Dr. Agee conducted assessments and provided treatment to individuals with major mental illness at psychiatric and state hospitals, as well as at intensive outpatient clinics. Her research interests include first episode psychosis, psychological trauma, violence risk, and law enforcement practices.

Research interests:

  • First episode psychosis

  • Law enforcement practices

Clinical interests:

  • First episode psychosis and other emerging mental illness

  • Posttraumatic stress

  • Violence risk assessment and sexual offense recidivism risk

  • Evaluations for sentencing and re-sentencing

Select Publications:

Zelle, H., Kelley, S., Agee, E.R., & Seibert, W.L. (2021). Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2021.101750

Agee, E.R., Zelle, H., Kelley, S., Moore, S.J. (2020). Marshaling administrative data to study the prevalence of mental illness in assault on law enforcement cases. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 37(6), 636-649. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2437

Subotnik, K., Ventura, J., Hellemann, G.S., Zito, M.F., Agee, E.R., Nuechterlein, K.H. (2020). Relationship of poor insight to neurocognition, social cognition, and psychiatric symptoms in schizophrenia: A meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Research, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2020.03.038

Briere, J., Agee, E., & Dietrich, A. (2016). Cumulative trauma and current posttraumatic stress disorder in general population and inmate samples. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 8(4), 439 - 446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000107

Subotnik, K., Ventura, J., Gretchen-Doorly, D.R., Helleman, G.S., Agee, E.R., Casaus, L.R., Luo, J.S., Villa, K.F., Nuechterlein, K.H. (2014). The impact of second-generation antipsychotic adherence on positive and negative symptoms in recent-onset schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 159, 95 -100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.07.008

See more of Dr. Agee’s publications by downloading her CV.