Thomas H. Ollendick,
Ph.D.
Thomas
H. Ollendick, Ph.D., is University Distinguished Professor
in Clinical Psychology and Director of Child Study Center
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
in Blacksburg, Virginia. He
is the author of over 200 research publications, 50
book chapters, and 25 books. His books include Clinical Behavior
Therapy with Children (Plenum Press), Child
Behavioral Assessment: Principles and Procedures (Pergamon
Press), Handbook of Child Psychopathology (Plenum
Press), Developmental Issues in the Clinical Treatment
of Children (Allyn and Bacon), the recently published Phobic
and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A
Clinician’s Guide to Effective Psychosocial and
Pharmacological Interventions (Oxford)and Handbook
of Interventions that Work with Children and Adolescents (Wiley).
He is the immediate past Editor of the Journal in Clinical
Child Psychology (1996-2001) and founding Co-Editor
of Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.
He serves on the editorial boards of 16 other journals.
In addition, he is Past-President of the Association for
the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (1995), the Society
of Clinical Psychology (1999), and most recently the Society
of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2003). He
served as Scientific Program Chair of the 2001 World Congress
on Cognitive and Behavior Therapies in Vancouver, Canada,
and is a frequent speaker at international and national
conferences. The recipient of several NIH grants, his clinical
and research interests range from the study of diverse
forms of child psychopathology to the assessment, treatment,
and prevention of these child disorders from a social learning/social
cognitive theory perspective. |
