Lisa Stone Bury

Lisa Stone-Bury

Assistant Professor of Psychology
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Education

  • Ph.D., Clinical Psychology (geropsychology emphasis), University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • Predoctoral Internship, Minneapolis VA Health Care System
  • M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  • B.A., Psychology, University of Dayton

Research Interests

I am a clinical psychologist with specialty training in geropsychology, which is a subdiscipline that applies the knowledge and methods of clinical psychology to understand and help older adults and their families maintain wellness, navigate challenges, and achieve their potential as they age and through the end-of-life.

I run the Aging, Personality, and Psychopathology (APP) Lab, which has three main areas of research:

  1. Expression and clinical assessment of personality pathology across the lifespan. How does personality pathology change over the course of someone’s life as they grow older? How do we best assess personality pathology in older adults that account for some of these changes?
  2. Interactions between aging and psychopathology, with a specific focus on the biopsychosocial context of older adulthood. For example, how do changes in physical or cognitive health, grief and loss, housing transitions, and caregiving impact experiences of psychopathology?
  3. Dimensional classification systems of psychopathology and their applicability to older adulthood. How do newer, dimensional models impact assessment of psychopathology in older adults? What problems do they address and what problems do they create?

Recent and Representative Publications

Stone, L. E., & Segal, D. L. (2023). Associations between physical health and the alternative model of personality disorders: A cross-sectional age study. Personality and Mental Health, 17(3), 220-231. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1576

Stone, L. E., & Segal, D. L. (2022). Social impairment and personality disorder features among older adults: An application of the circumplex model. Personality and Mental Health, 16(1), 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1523

Stone, L. E., Segal, D. L., & Noel, O. R. (2021). Psychometric evaluation of the Levels of Personality Functioning Scale—Brief Form 2.0 among older adults. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 12(6), 526–533. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000413

Recent Courses Taught

  • PSYC 210: Psychopathology
  • PSYC 216: Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
  • PSYC 319: Geropsychology

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