Elisha Agee, PsyD

Dr. Elisha Agee is a forensic clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy (ILPPP), within the UVA School of Medicine. She also serves as the Director of Clinical Training (DCT) at ILPPP. As a clinician, she performs a variety of forensic evaluations (e.g., competency, sanity, violence risk, sexual offense recidivism risk, resentencing, mitigation, capital cases) for courts across the country. A portion of her work is dedicated to conducting evaluations for police departments (suitability and fitness-for-duty). She is also sub-contracted by the state to provide trainings for those who conduct emergency prescreening evaluations for civil commitment. Her research interests include first episode psychosis, psychological trauma, violence risk, and law enforcement practices. Prior to being at ILPPP, Dr. Agee worked with individuals with major mental illness at state hospitals, inpatient psychiatric units, outpatient clinics, and intensive outpatient programs.

E agee@virginia.edu

P 434-297-4442

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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:

Murrie, D.C., & Agee, E. R. (in press). Violence risk assessment. In S. Hatters-Friedman & R. Frierfon (Eds.), The Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry: Fourth Edition (pp. TBD). American Psychiatric Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197773031.003.0002

Murrie, D.C, Agee, E., Kelley, S. (2026). University clinic-based forensic mental health assessment. In K. Heilbrun & D. DeMatteo (Eds.), Community-based psychological services with justice-involved individuals. Oxford University Press.

Zelle, H., Kelley, S. M., Agee, E. R. (2023). Police interactions with persons with mental illness. In R. Roesch (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Psychology in the Real World: Psychology and Law. Routledge.

Warren, J.I., Jackson, S.L., Agee, E.R., Millsbaugh, S.B., Alam, M.F. (2022). Personality disorders among incarcerated adult and adolescent women. In S.L. Brown & L. Gelsthorpe (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook on What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law: A Critical Review of Theory, Practice, and Policy. Wiley.

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.

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.