CAST Lab

Couple Adjustment to Stress and Trauma  

Intense stress and trauma are all too common. The Couple Adjustment to Stress and Trauma (CAST) Lab is committed to enhancing our understanding of the impact of acute stress and trauma on intimate relationships.

Director

Christina Balderrama-Durbin, Ph.D.   

Associate Professor of Psychology 

cbalderr@binghamton.edu       

607-777-3610                           

Clearview 60 


What's new

We have recently received notification of funding for a project examining the impact of gender-based violence on motivations for irregular migration among Guatemalan youth

Hot off the press

Check out our latest publication from the pilot RCT testing a brief intervention (Primary Care Treatment Integrating Motivation and Exposure; PC-TIME) for PTSD and heavy drinking in Veterans delivered in primary care

Congratulations

Congratulations to CAST Lab's fourth-year graduate student, Melissa Gates, M.S., on her receipt of the 2023-24 Fall Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant to support her research on the impact of sexual and gender minority-specific adverse childhood experiences on couple functioning!