Speaker/Workshop Information

NSU’s Center for Psychological Studies welcomes Dr. Thomas Achenbach and Dr. Leslie Rescorla to the 2008 Continuing Education Workshop Series!

	Above: World renowned researchers and clinicians, Thomas Achenbach, Ph.D

Thomas M. Achenbach, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, is President of the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families at the University of Vermont Department of Psychiatry. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center. Before moving to the University of Vermont, Dr. Achenbach taught at Yale and was a Research Psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has been a DAAD Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany; an SSRC Senior Faculty Fellow at Jean Piaget’s Centre d’Épistémologie Génétique in Geneva; Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Classification of Children’s Behavior; and a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Advisory Committee on DSM-III-R. He has given some 250 invited presentations in 30 countries and has authored over 250 publications, including the Manuals for the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). ASEBA instruments have been translated into over 79 languages. Over 6,500 publications report their use in more than 67 cultures. Dr. Achenbach’s honors include the Distinguished Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association’s Section on Clinical Child Psychology, the University Scholar Award of the University of Vermont, selection for the Institute for Scientific Information’s Most Highly Cited Authors in the World Psychiatry/Psychology Literature, and election as a Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association and four divisions of the American Psychological Association.

	Above: World renowned researchers and clinicians, Leslie Rescorla, Ph.D.

Leslie Rescorla received her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College, an M.Sc. degree from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. from Yale. She did a clinical internship at the Yale Child Study Center and then continued her clinical training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She has been on the faculty at Bryn Mawr College since 1985. A Professor of Psychology, she is also the Director of the Child Study Institute of Bryn Mawr College, a clinic serving children and families. Additionally, she is the administrative head of the Phebe Anna Thorne School, an early childhood program serving both typically developing children and children with language delays. She is also Director of Bryn Mawr’s Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center. Dr. Rescorla is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified school psychologist. In addition to her teaching, research, and administrative activities, she maintains a clinical practice at the Child Study Institute, where she works with children and their families and consults with schools. Her research interests are in the areas of language delay in young children and longitudinal patterns of school achievement. With her husband, Tom Achenbach, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Vermont, she conducts research on empirically based assessment of emotional and behavioral problems in children, adolescents, and adults. An important focus of their current work is comparison of ratings of children’s problems by parents, teachers, and adolescents themselves across more than 30 countries.

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