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Childhood Psychopathology
Faculty
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D., ABPP, is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Columbia University School of Medicine. Albano is a Beck Institute Scholar in Cognitive Therapy and a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She is the past editor of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, representative at large for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (formerly AABT) and secretary of the Division of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Albano’s research and clinical interests focus on the development of empirically based assessment and treatment methodologies for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. She is presently a principal investigator of a multicenter clinical research trial funded by the National Institutes of mental Health examining the relative efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, combination treatment, and placebo for youth and anxiety disorders. Albano is the co-author of the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children with Wendy Silverman and the treatment manuals When Children Refuse School: Therapist and Parent Guides with Christopher Kearney.
Rex L. Forehand, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and director of clinical training at the University of Vermont . Prior to January of 2003, he was on faculty at the University of Georgia where he most recently served as director of the Institute for Behavioral Research and Regents Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia. His research includes conduct and oppositional disorders in children, the effects of divorce and marital conflict on children, family health behaviors, and parent behavioral training. He is on the editorial boards of nine journals, including the Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, and Behavior Therapy. He is a diplomate in clinical psychology (American Board of Professional Psychology) and co-author of Parenting the Strong-Willed Child (Contemporary Books), Making Divorce Easier on Your Child: 50 Effective Ways to Help Children Adjust (Contemporary Books), and Helping the Non-Compliant Child: Family-Based Treatment for Oppositional Behavior (Guilford Press).
Paul J. Frick, Ph.D., is Research Professor of Psychology and director of the Applied Developmental Program at the University of New Orleans. His research includes a range of topics under the broad rubric of developmental psychopathology. A continuing line of research focuses on the causes and treatment of childhood behavior problems, including ADHD and aggressive behavior. Frick recently completed a five year project funded by NIMH to study risk and protective factors associated with the development of violent and aggressive behavior in school children. He is the author of the book, Conduct Disorder and Severe Antisocial Behavior published by Plenum Press in 1998 as part of the Clinical Child Psychology Library series. In addition, Frick conducts research related to the diagnosis and classification of children's emotional and behavioral disorders. Related to this research focus, he recently co-authored the text, Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior-2nd Edition, published by Springer in 2005.
Robert McMahon, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington and the director of the Child Clinical Psychology Program. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia in 1979. He has also been on the faculty at the University of British Columbia and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
McMahon’s primary research and clinical interests concern the assessment, treatment, and prevention of conduct problems in children, especially in the context of the family. He is co-author, with Rex Forehand, of Helping the Noncompliant Child: Family-Based Treatment for Oppositional Behavior (Guilford Press, 1981, 2003). The parent-training program focuses specifically on children who display the characteristics of oppositional defiant disorder, and views child noncompliance as a keystone behavior in the development of conduct problems.
McMahon is a principal investigator on the Fast Track project, which is a large, multisite collaborative study on the prevention of antisocial behavior in school-aged children. His primary responsibilities on that project concern the development and implementation of the family-based intervention components for this 10-year preventive intervention.
McMahon is a member-at-large for the Society of clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. He is or has been a member of the Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention (PDRP) Integrated Review Group of the National Institutes of Health; the Scientific Core Group for the Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence (sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation); the National Program Advisory Committee for the Strengthening American’s Families Technical Assistance and Training Project (sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention); and the Evaluation Advisory Panel for the Free to Grow National Demonstration Project (sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). He has also been a member of the Planning Committee for the Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science since 1981.
Michael W. Mellon, Ph.D., is a consultant and pediatric psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic. Mellon earned his Ph.D. from the University of Memphis and completed an internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is the co-director of the Mayo Clinic-Dana Child Development and Learning Disorders Program, and director of the Enuresis Clinic. Mellon has published and presented papers at national conferences in the areas of behavioral treatments for enuresis and encopresis. Current research activities include a current status assessment of adults previously identifies as learning disabled and/or ADHD, psychosocial characteristics of ADHD children undergoing social skills training, and predictors of outcome in conditioning treatment of primary nocturnal enuresis.
Sam Morgan, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at the University of Memphis, where he served as director of the doctoral programs in clinical and child clinical psychology. Before joining the University of Memphis faculty in 1978, he was an associate professor of child development and pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, where he was also chief of psychology at the Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities. Throughout his career his clinical and research interests have focused on children with developmental and behavioral disorders, especially children with autism spectrum disorders and their families. His publications on autism have dealt with various topics, including the impact of autism on family members, children’s acceptance of a peer with autism, cognitive and affective functioning of children with autism, and the history of autism spectrum disorders. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, and the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. |
