PAU Esteemed Lecture Series in Clinical Child Psychology 2012
February 9, 2012
The Esteemed Lecture Series in Clinical Child Psychology is an initiative of the Child and Family Emphasis Area in the Ph.D. Clinical Psychology Program. The lecture series is designed to expose students, faculty, staff and other academic community members/neighbors to cutting-edge thinking and research in clinical child psychology and developmental psychopathology. PAU is proud to join the leading scholars listed below in offering these series. All lectures will held at PAU in the Wisniewski Hall from 12-1 PM.
Feb. 9, 2012 Steven Hinshaw, Ph.D. ADHD: Mechanisms, Development, and Gender Issues
Stephen Hinshaw is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Department Chair from 2004-2011, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco. He received his B.A. from Harvard (1974, summa cum laude), and his doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA (1983). After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Langley Porter Institute (UCSF), he joined the Berkeley faculty. His work focuses on developmental psychopathology: peer and family relationships, neuropsychological risk factors, pharmacologic and psychological interventions for children with ADHD, assessment and evaluation, conceptual and definitional issues, mental health problems in teenage girls, the stigmatization of mental illness, and international training efforts. He has directed summer research camps and conducted longitudinal studies for boys and (more recently) for girls with ADHD and related disorders, having received over $14 million in NIH funding. Hinshaw has authored over 225 articles, chapters, and reviews plus 7 books, including The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change (Oxford University Press, 2007), and The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures (Random House, 2009). Two more books are in preparation (ADHD and public policy; a memoir of growing up in a home with severe mental illness). He is editor of Psychological Bulletin, the most cited journal in the field of general psychology, and is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution in Psychology Award from the California State Psychological Association (2009) and the Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Letters and Sciences, UC Berkeley (2001). His 24-lecture series for the Teaching Company, entitled “Origins of the Human Mind,” was released in 2010.
March 1, 2012 12- 1 PM Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. Does my Brain Look Fat in this?: How Neuroscience is informing Eating Disorder Treatment
Dr. Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick has worked in the Eating Disorders Clinic at Stanford for five years. She specializes in neuropsychological assessment of eating disorders and evaluation of treatments for children and adolescents. Her current research interests focus on the development of Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT), which utilizes neuropsychological components to address cognitive and behavioral difficulties associated with eating disorders. In addition to working as a therapist on research treatment studies, she also provides supervision to therapists on different treatment modalities.
April 5, 2012 Michael Tompkins Ph.D., Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome, and Trichotillomania in Youth
Michael A. Tompkins, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (PSY 13822), a founding partner of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Diplomate and Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Tompkins specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders in adults, adolescents, and children. He is the author or co-author of five books, including My Anxious Mind: A Teen’s Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic(with Katherine Martinez) (Magination Press, 2010)which is a Magination Press best seller and earned the 2011 Self-Help Seal of Merit from the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Dr. Tompkins serves on the Advisory Board of Magination Press, the children’s press of the American Psychological Association.
May 29, 2012 12-1 PM Robert L. Hendren D.O., Novel models for understanding and treating Autism?
Robert L. Hendren, D.O., is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science; Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. From 2001-2009, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director and Tsakopoulos-Vismara Chair at the University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. Institute (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders).Dr. Hendren is Immediate Past (2007-2009) President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has published over 100 scientific papers and 4 books and has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America”, each year since it was first published in 1996.
Dr. Hendren took his residency in general psychiatry at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center and he is board certified in General as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has been on the faculty at the George Washington University School of Medicine, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson and New Jersey Medical Schools. His current areas of research and publication interests are translational clinical pharmacology and nutritional trials using biomarkers (MRI, measures of inflammation, oxidative stress, immune function and pharmacogenomics) in neurodevelopmental disorders.
