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My undergraduate degree in psychology (1972) is from the State
University of New York at Binghamton where my professors
were mostly interested in animal learning and motivation. I am
grateful to them for the empirical lens to which I look at the
world, even though my own interests have become much more applied.
My master’s (1974)
and doctoral degrees (1977) are from the University
of Toronto. My
internships were at Thistletown, a children's mental
health centre, and the Oakville Reception and
Assessment Centre, an interdisciplinary
assessment facility for juvenile delinquents. I also completed briefer
training experiences in schools, a psychiatric hospital, and a counselling
clinic whose clients were mostly student nurses. I became a registered
psychologist in Ontario in 1978 and hold the Certificate
of Professional Qualification (CPQ) from the Association
of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.
I worked as a supervising school psychologist from 1977 to 1981,
when I joined the faculty of the School of Psychology of the University
of Ottawa. While on leave from
the University of Ottawa, I taught at the University
of Toronto,
the University of Oxford and the University
of Florence. I also spent
six months working at the Laboratoire de Psychobiologie
de l’Enfant of the Conseil
National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Click here for photos of these and other places where I have held visiting professor appointments and conducted research. I took early retirement from the University of Ottawa in 2014. I began my work at Boston College in September of the same year.
In 2024, I retired from full-time teaching and clinical practice. I remain active, however, in teaching, specializing in online asynchronous courses. I am also an active research consultant.
At various stages of my academic career, I have maintained my clinical involvement part time as a psychologist in private practice, consultant to a network of daycare centres, and consultant to a group home for young offenders. I also helped supervise the practicum and internship experiences of doctoral students in clinical psychology and newly registered psychologists for 21 years. In my private practice and consultation to institutions in other countries, I particularly enjoy helping children and adolescents who are facing the simulataneous challenges of dealing with a psychological difficulty and a new culture.
I have been the supervisor of 14 completed doctoral theses and 19 completed master’s theses.
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew
| PSY 5933 |
Research Methods in Clinical Psychology |
| PSY 5007 |
Practicum in Intervention and Consultation |
| PSY 6932 |
Child Psychopathology |
| PSY 5519 |
Développement de l'Enfant |
| 2014 |
Elected honorary life member, Ottawa Academy of Psychology
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| 2000 |
Elected fellow, Canadian Psychological Association
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| 2000 |
Bea Wickett Award for Exceptional Contribution to School
Psychology, Ontario Psychological Association
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| 1999 |
Professor of the Year, Faculty of Social Sciences, University
of Ottawa
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1987 |
Joan Kershaw Publication Award, Canadian Council for Exceptional
Children |
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