CURRICULUM
VITAE
JEAN
MERCER*
E-mail: Jean.Mercer@stockton.edu
EDUCATION:
Mt.
Holyoke College, 1959-1961
Occidental
College. 1961-63; A.B. in Psychology, 1963
EMPLOYMENT:
Assistant
Professor, Wheaton
College Norton ,MA
Assistant
Professor, State University College Buffalo , NY
Assistant
Professor, Richard
Stockton College Pomona , NJ
Associate
Professor, Professor, Richard
Stockton College Pomona NJ
Professor
of Psychology, Richard
Stockton College Pomona , NJ
Professor Emerita of Psychology, Richard Stockton
College (now Stockton University), 2006--
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Consulting
reader, Infants and Young Children,1992-
2000
Editor, The Phoenix (NJAIMH Quarterly
Newsletter), 1994-1999; Editor,
Nurture Notes (NJAIMH Newsletter),
2000-2001.
Vice
President, New Jersey
President, New Jersey
Past
president, ex officio Board of Directors member, NJAIMH, 2005- 2009
Member,
Prevention and Early Intervention Committee, New Jersey
Mental Health Board, 2000-2002
Consulting
editor, Scientific Review of Mental
Health Practice, 2002-2010
Member, New Jersey
Fellow, Council for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health,
2003-2008
Faculty member,
Youth Consultation Services Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health,
2003-
Chair, Board of
Professional Advisors, Advocates for Children in Therapy, 2003--
Expert witness,
Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, 2005
(license revocation matter)
[*Name was legally changed from Gene Alice Lester, May,
1977]
Expert witness,
Middlesex NJ Family Court, 2005 (best interest hearing)
Member, "Critical Pathways"
teleconference on training and credentials (formed after ZTT/Mailman Foundation Infant Mental Health Systems
Development Summit Conference, September 2005)
Consultant, Thibault vs. Thibault, Paco County
FL , 2006 (child custody and discipline matter)
Expert witness, California
Reviewer, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,
2008.
Testimony, Robertson
vs. Mannion, Montgomery County, PA, 2008 (child custody matter)
Founding member,
Institute for Science in Medicine, 2009; Board of Directors, 2014-
Reviewer, Choice:
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 2009-
Board of Directors, Delaware Valley Group of WAIMH, 2010—2014.
Co-director, PA-IMH infant mental health breakfast series,
2014-2017
Editorial board, Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, 2014—
Reviewer, Professional
Psychology, 2015—
Reviewer, Child and
Family Social Work, 2015—
Reviewer, Evidence-based
Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2016
Reviewer, Scandinavian
Journal of Psychology, 2017
Reviewer, Theory
& Psychology, 2018
Expert witness, Sahar vs. Sahar, Yolo County, CA, 2018
(child custody/parental alienation matter)
OTHER MEMBERSHIPS:
American Psychological Association
Pennsylvania Association for Infant Mental Health
Society for Research in Child Development
PUBLICATIONS:
Lester, G., & Morant, R. (1967). Sound localization
during labyrinthian stimulation.
Proceedings of the 75th Annual Convention of
the American Psychological
Association, 1, 19-20.
Lester, G. (1968). The case for efferent change during
prism adaptation. Journal of
Psychology, 68, 9-13.
Lester, G. (1968). The rod-and-frame test: Some comments
on methodology. Perceptual
and Motor Skills, 26, 1307-1314.
Lester, G. (1969). Comparison of five methods of
presenting the rod-and-frame test.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 29, 147-151.
Lester, G. (1969). The role of the felt position of the
head in the audiogyral illusion. Acta
Psychologica, 31, 375-384.
Lester, G. (1969). Disconfirmation of an hypothesis about
the Mueller-Lyer illusion.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 29, 369-370.
Lester, D., & Lester, G. (1970). The problem of the
less intelligent student in the introductory
psychology course. The Clinical Psychologist, 23(4), 11-12.
Lester, G., & Lester, D. (1970). The fear of death,
the fear of dying, and threshold differences
for death words and neutral words. Omega,1,
175-180.
Lester, G. (1970). Haidinger’s brushes and the perception
of polarization. Acta
Psychologica, 34, 107-114.
Lester, G., & Morant, R. (1970). Apparent sound
displacement during vestibular stimulation.
American
Journal of Psychology, 83, 554-566.
Lester, G. (1971). Vestibular stimulation and auditory
thresholds. Journal of General
Psychology, 85, 103-105.
Lester, G. (1971). Subjects’ assumptions and scores on the
rod-and-frame test.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 32,
205-206.
Lester, G., & Lester, D. (1971). Suicide: The gamble with death. Englewood
Prentice-Hall.
Lester, D., & Lester, G. (1975). Crime
of passion: Murder and the murderer. Chicago:
Nelson-Hall.
Lester, G., & Rando, H. (1975). No correlation between
rod-and-frame and visual
normalization
scores. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 40,
846.
Lester, G., Bierbrauer, B., Selfridge, B., &
Gomeringer, D. (1976). Distractibility,
intensity
of reaction, and nonnutritive sucking. Psychological
Reports, 39, 1212-1214.
Lester, G. (1977). Size constancy scaling and the apparent
thickness of the shaft in the
Mueller-Lyer
illusion. Journal of General Psychology,
97, 307-398.
Mercer, J. (1979). Small people: How children develop and what you can do about it.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall.
Mercer, J. (1979). Personality development and the
principle of reciprocal interweaving.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 48,
186.
Mercer, J. (1979). Guided
observations in child development. Washington, D.C.: University Press
of America.
Mercer, J., & Russ, R. (1980). Variables affecting
time between childbirth and the establishment
of lactation. Journal of General
Psychology, 102, 155-156.
Mercer, J., & McMurphy, C. (1985). A stereotyped
following behavior in young children.
Journal of General Psychology, 112,
261-265.
Mercer, J. (1991).
To everything there is a season: Development in the context of the
lifespan. Lanham, MD: University
Press of America.
Mercer, J.,& Gonsalves, S. (1992). Parental experience
during treatment of very small
preterm
infants: Implications for mourning and for parent-infant relationships.
Illness, Crisis, and Loss, 2, 70-73.
Gonsalves, S., & Mercer, J. (1993). Physiological
correlates of painful stimulation in preterm
infants. Clinical Journal of Pain, 9,
88-93.
Mercer, J. (1998). Infant
development: A multidisciplinary introduction. Belmont, CA:
Brooks/Cole.
Mercer, J. (1999). ‘Psychological parenting” explained
(letter). New Jersey Lawyer, July 12, 7.
Mercer, J. (2000/2001). Letter. Zero to Three, 21(3), 39.
Mercer, J. (2001). Warning: Are you aware of “holding
therapy?” (letter). Pediatrics, 107, 1498.
Mercer, J. (2001). “Attachment therapy” using deliberate
restraint: An object lesson on the identification of unvalidated
treatments. Journal of Child and
Adolescent
Psychiatric Nursing, 14(3), 105-114. This
paper is posted at
http://www.bpkids.org/learning/reference/articles/index.htm#journals_#
with
permission of the publisher to the Child and Adolescent Bipolar
Foundation.
Mercer, J. (2002). Surrogate motherhood. In N. Salkind (Ed.),
Child Development
(pp.
399). New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
Mercer, J. (2002). Child psychotherapy involving physical
restraint: Techniques used in four approaches.
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal,
19(4), 303-314.
Kennedy, S.S., Mercer, J., Mohr, W., & Huffine, C.W.
(2002). Snake oil, ethics, and the First
Amendment: What’s a profession to do? American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry, 72(1), 5-15.
Mercer, J. (2002). Attachment therapy: A treatment without
empirical support. Scientific
Review of
Mental Health Practice, 1(2), 9-16. Reprinted in S.O. Lilienfeld, J.
Ruscio, & S.J. Lynn (Eds.), Navigating
the mindfield: A user’s guide to distinguishing science from pseudoscience (pp.
435-453). Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Mercer, J. (2002). The difficulties of double blinding
(letter). Science, 297, 2208.
Mercer, J. (2002) Attachment therapy. In M.Shermer (Ed.), The Skeptic Encyclopedia of
Pseudoscience (pp. 43-47) .Santa
Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Mercer, J., & Rosa, L. (2002). Letter on Attachment
Therapy. New Jersey School
Psychologist, 24 (8), 16-18.
Mercer, J., Sarner, L., & Rosa, L. (2003). Attachment therapy on trial: The torture
and death of Candace Newmaker. Westport,
CT: Praeger. (see also reviews in Scientific American,
PsycCritique, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice).
Mercer, J. (2003). Letter to the editor. APSAC Advisor,15(3), 19.
Mercer, J. (2003) Attachment therapy and adopted children:
A caution. Readers’
Forum. Contemporary Pediatrics, 20(10), 41.
Mercer, J. (2003). Violent
therapies: The rationale behind a potentially harmful child
psychotherapy and its
acceptance by parents. Scientific Review of Mental Health
Practice, 2(1), 27-37.
Mercer, J. (2003). Media Watch: Radio and television
programs approve of Coercive Restraint
Therapies. Scientific Review of Mental
Health Practice, 2(2).
Mercer, J. (2004). The dangers of Attachment Therapy:
Parent education needed.
Brown
University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 20(10), 1, 6-7.
Mercer, J. (2005). Bubbles, bottles, baby talk, and
basketty. Early Childhood Health Link
(Newsletter
of Healthy Child Care New Jersey), 4(1),
1-2.
Mercer, J. (2005). Coercive Restraint Therapies: A
dangerous alternative mental health intervention.
Medscape General Medicine, 7(3). (see
also letters in subsequent issue). http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/508956.
Mercer, J. (2006).
Understanding attachment: Parenthood,
child care, and emotional development.
Westport, CT: Praeger.
Mercer, J. (2006).
IEPs and Reactive Attachment Disorder: Recognizing and addressing misinformation. Scope (Newsletter of the Washington State Association of School Psychologists), 28(3), 2-6.
Mercer, J.,
Misbach, A., Pennington, R., & Rosa, L. (2006). Letter to the editor (age regression definition). Child Maltreatment, 11, 378.
Mercer, J. (2007).
Behaving yourself: Moral development in the secular family. In D..McGowan (Ed.), Parenting beyond belief (pp. 104-112). New York: Amacom Books.
Mercer, J., &
Pignotti, M. (2007). Letter to the editor (neurofeedback research critique). International Journal of Behavioral and
Consultation Therapy, 3 (2), 324-325
Pignotti, M., & Mercer, J. (2007). Holding Therapy and Dyadic
Developmental Psychotherapy are not
supported, acceptable social work interventions: A systematic research synthesis revisited. Research on Social Work Practice,17 (4), 513-519.
Mercer, J. (2007). Systematic child maltreatment: Connections with
unconventional parent and professional education. Society for Child and Family
Policy and Practice Advocate (Division
37 of APA), 30 (2), pp.5-6.
Mercer, J. ( 2007).Media
Watch: Wikipedia and "open source" mental health information. Scientific
Review of Mental Health Practice. 5(1), 88-92.
Mercer, J. (2007)
Destructive trends in alternative infant mental health approaches. Scientific
Review of Mental Health Practice, 5(2), 44-58.
Mercer, J.,
& Pignotti, M. (2007). Shortcuts
cause errors in Systematic Research Syntheses: Rethinking evaluation of
mental health interventions. Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, 5
(2), 59-77.
Mercer, J. (2008). Minding controls in curriculum study
(letter). Science, 319, 1184.
Mercer, J. (2009).Child
Development: Myths and Misunderstandings.Los Angeles,CA: Sage.
Mercer, J., Pennington,
R.S., Pignotti, M., & Rosa, L. (2010). Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
is not "evidence-based": Comments in response to Becker-Weidman and Hughes (2009). Child and Family Social Work, 15, 1-5. http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1356-7500
. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2009.00609.x.
Mercer, J. (2009). Child
custody evaluations, attachment theory, and an attachment measure: The science
remains limited. Scientific Review of
Mental Health Practice, 7(1), 37-54.
Mercer, J. (2010). Themes
and variations in development: Can nanny-bots act like human caregivers? Interaction Studies, 11(2), 233-237.
Mercer, J. (2011). Attachment theory and its
vicissitudes: Toward an updated theory. Theory
and Psychology, 21, 25-45.
Mercer, J. (2011). The
concept of psychological regression: Metaphors, mapping, Queen Square, and
Tavistock Square. History of Psychology,14,
174-196.
Mercer, J. (2011). Some
aspects of CAM mental health interventions: Regression, recapitulation, and
“secret sympathies”. Scientific Review of
Mental Health Practice, 8, 36-55.
Mercer, J. (2011). Book
review: Rachel Stryker’s (2010) The road
to Evergreen. Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, 8, 69-74.
Mercer.J. (2011). Martial
arts research: Weak evidence. (Letter). Science,
334, 310-311.
Mercer, J. (2012). Reply
to Sudbery, Shardlow, and Huntington: Holding therapy. British Journal of Social Work,
42, 556-559 . DOI:
10.1093/bjsw.bcr078.
Mercer, J. (2013). Child development: Myths and
misunderstandings, 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Mercer, J., (2013).
Deliverance, demonic possession, and mental illness: Some considerations for
mental health professionals. Mental
Health, Religion, and Culture 16(6), 596-611. DOI:10.1080.13674676.2012.707272.
Mercer, J. (2013).
Attachment in children and adolescents. (Childhood Studies section). H.
Montgomery (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies
Online. www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
Mercer, J. (2013). Holding
Therapy in Britain: Historical background, recent events, and ethical concerns.
Adoption & Fostering, 37(2),
144-156.
Mercer, J. (2013). Holding
therapy: A harmful alternative mental health intervention. Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 18(2), 70-76.
Mercer, J. (2013). Giving
parents information about Reactive Attachment Disorder: Some problems. Brown University Child and Adolescent
Behavior Letter, 29 (8), 1, 6-7.
Mercer, J. (2014).
International concerns about Holding Therapy. Research on Social Work Practice, 24(2), 188-191.
Mercer, J. (2014).
Children in institutions. (Letter). Zero
to Three, 34(4), 4.
Mercer, J. (2014).
Examining Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy as a treatment for adopted and
foster children. Research on Social Work
Practice, 24, 715-724.
Doi:10.11771049731513513516803.
Mercer, J., ( 2014). Alternative
psychotherapies: Evaluating unconventional mental health treatments. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.
[Review: Thyer, B. (2015). Playing whack-a-mole with
pseudoscientific psychotherapies. PsycCritiques,
60(28), Article 5.]
Mercer, J. (2014). Parenting: Section deserves a scolding
(LTE). Science, 345(6204), 1571.
Mercer, J. (2015).
Attachment therapy. In S.O. Lilienfeld, S.J. Lynn, & J.M. Lohr (Eds.), Science and pseudoscience in clinical
psychology (2nd edition) (pp. 466-499). New York: Guilford.
Mercer, J. (2015).
Attachment therapies. In R. Cautin &
S.O. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of clinical psychology. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Mercer, J. (2015).
Controversial therapies. In R. Cautin & S.O.Lilienfeld (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical psychology. New
York:Wiley-Blackwell.
Mercer, J. (2015). Thinking critically about child development:
Examining myths and misunderstandings ( 3rd ed. of Child development: Myths and
misunderstandings).
Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Mercer, J. (2015).
Revisiting an article about Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: The life cycle
of a “woozle”. Child and Adolescent
Social Work, 32(5), 397-404.
Mercer, J. (2015),
Examining Circle of Security: A review of research and theory. Research on Social Work Practice, 25(3),
382-392.
Mercer, J. (2017).
Evidence of potentially harmful psychological treatments for children and
adolescents. Child and Adolescent Social
Work, 34, 107-125.. DOI:
1007/s10560-016-0480-2. Available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10560-016-0480-2?sap-outbound-id=15F8540F330C2FDCFB43493B1AD91F0D8FA120D8&utm_source=SAPHybris&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3068&utm_term=CtW_Authors___DA-ZIC_DC_EMAIL_STAR-DC_PERSONALIZATION03&utm_content=EN
Mercer, J. (2017). Examining DIR/Floortime as a treatment
for children with autism spectrum disorders. Research on Social Work Practice, 25(5),625-637.
Mercer, J. (2017). Conventional and unconventional perspectives
on attachment and attachment problems: Comparisons and implications, 2006-2016.
Child and Adolescent Social Work. http://rdcu.be/u2u2.
Mercer, J. (2018). Child
development: Concepts and theories. London: Sage.
Mercer, J., Hupp, S.,
& Jewell, J. (2019). Thinking
critically about child development (4th edition). Los Angeles,
CA: Sage.
Mercer, J. (2019). Are
parental alienation treatments safe and effective for children and adolescents?
Journal of Child Custody. DOI:
10.1080/15379418.2018.1557578
Mercer, J. (2019). Chto
takoe privyazannost? Ehmocionalnoe razvitie, roditelstvo, uhod za detmi. Translation
of Understanding attachment. Moscow:
Cogito-Centre, 2019.
Mercer,
J. (2019). Response to Comments on "Conventional and Unconventional
Perspectives on Attachment and Attachment Problems: Comparisons and
Implications, 2006-2016." Child and
Adolescent Social Work Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10560-019-00608-9
Hupp, S., Mercer, J., Thyer, B., & Pignotti, M.
(2019). Critical thinking about psychotherapy. In
S. Hupp (Ed.), Pseudoscience
in child and adolescent psychotherapy (pp. 1-13).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mercer, J. (2019). Trauma and attachment. In S. Hupp
(Ed.), Pseudoscience in child and
adolescent
psychotherapy (pp. 172-188). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
UNPUBLISHED/ IN PREPARATION:
Lester, G. (1968). Some investigations of the audiogyral
illusion. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Brandeis University
Mercer, J. (1993) The
successful single parent. Unpublished book-length ms.
Mercer, J. The developing child in
changing times: Infancy through
adolescence Unpublished
book-length ms.
Invited comments on the New Jersey Children’s Initiative
proposal (March 10, 2000 );
with
Gerard Costa and Elaine Herzog.
Invited comments on the U.S. Bright Futures children’s
mental health proposal (July 5, 2000);
with Gerard Costa.
Mercer, J. (2000). Notes on Attachment Therapy: Relevant
Research and Theory. Prepared for use by the prosecution in the trial of
Connell Watkins, Colorado, April 2001.
Sarner, L., & Mercer, J. (2003). Statement to Human
Resources Subcommittee of House Ways and Means Committee. http:// waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode+view&id+1342.
Mercer, J. (January, 2005). Expert witness report. State
of Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. Case number
2002-223.
Mercer, J. (April, 2005). Expert witness report. Child custody case, Middlesex Family Court, New Brunswick, NJ.
Mercer, J.
(October, 2006). Expert witness report. Child custody case, Pasco County , Florida
Mercer, J. ( Associate editor; in production). Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
(S. Hupp & J. Jewell, Eds.)
Mercer, J. (in preproduction). Attachment research.
In S.Hupp & J.Jewell (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of Child and Adolescent Development. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Mercer, J. (in production). Perinatal mood disorders.
In S.Hupp & J.Jewell (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of Child and Adolescent Development. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
BLOGS AND OTHER INTERNET MATERIALS:
Remarks to Russian psychology conference, presented by Dr.
Michael Ivanov (2016): https://vimeo.com/159317432
“Attachment therapies and associated parenting
techniques.” www.scienceinmedicine.org/policy/papers/AttachmentTherapy.pdf.
“Critical thinking and the mastery of child development
concepts.” www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/critical-thinking.html.
PRESENTATIONS:
Various presentations on child development and parenting
issues to parent groups and
training
workshops, including CASA.
“Law, policy, and attachment issues”; presentation at the
Second Annual Conference on Attachment
of the New Jersey Psychological Association. June 9, 2000, Newark, NJ (Social
work CE units).
“Custody changes and their effect on children’s
development”; presentation at New Jersey State Child
Placement Advisory Council conference, April, 2001 (Social work CE units).
“Bad language: How the professions confuse each other with
words,” welcoming address at
conference on Attachment, New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health,
Piscataway,
NJ, April, 2002 (Social work CE units).
“That cranky, crying baby”; presentation at National
Association for Education of Young Children Conference on Health in Child Care,
Princeton, NJ, May, 2002; repeated
May, 2003, May, 2004.
“Warning Signals: When parents consider unusual mental
health treatments for their children”;
presentation at Third Annual Multicultural Health Conference, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ, Sept. 2002.
“Misuse and abuse of attachment theory”; keynote speech at
2002 Annual Meeting, New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health,
Piscataway, NJ, Nov. 2002.
“Attachment Therapy: Science adversaries appeal to
scientific evidence.” Institute of Contemporary
British History conference, “Science, Its Advocates and Adversaries”, London, July 7-9, 2003.
“Analyzing Attachment Therapy”, at “Right From the Start:
Supporting the Earliest Relationships
and their Impact on Later Years,” professional conference presented by Youth Consultation Services Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental
Health, Newark, Sept. 24-25, 2003
(continuing professional education credit-bearing).
“Principles of Infant Mental Health”, at “What Does Infant
Mental Health Mean to Me?”, professional
conference sponsored by New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health, Gateway Maternal-Child Health Consortium, Northwest
Maternal-Child Health Consortium,
Piscataway, NJ, Nov. 13, 2003 (continuing professional education credit- bearing).
“Attachment and Attachment Therapy: The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly”, at annual meeting, Gateway Maternal-Child Health Consortium. East Orange, NJ, March 25,
2004 (Continuing professional
education credit).
“Attachment.” Annual conference of New Jersey Association
for Education of Young Children, East
Brunswick, NJ, Oct. 16, 2004 (continuing professional education
credit)
Discussion of Attachment Therapy. “All in the Mind”,
Australian Broadcasting Company, Dec.
18, 2004. Transcript available at http://abc.net.au/rn/science/mind.
“Attachment: Social and Emotional Development from Birth
to Preschool.” Conference of Coalition
of Infant and Toddler Educators, East Brunswick, NJ, March 18, 2005.
“Attachment Therapy: Concerns on Unvalidated Treatments.”
Institute for Infant and Preschool
Mental Health Didactic Series, Youth Consultation Service, East Orange, NJ, May 12, 2005.
"Violent therapies
with children: History and theory.” 9th International Family Violence Research
Conference, Portsmouth, NH, July 11, 2005.
Invited state delegate and
New Jersey Washington DC
New Jersey Perinatal Mood
Disorders training program presentations, 2005-2006.
“Dangerous therapies”,
with Alan Misbach. LCSW. Independent
Educational Consultants Association conference, Philadelphia
"Attachment
Therapy". Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health Didactic
Series, Youth Consultation Service, East Orange, NJ, April 27, 2006.
"Attachment
Therapy" comments, Paula Zahn show, CNN, Nov. 14, 2006.
"Attachment
Therapy" comments, Court TV, Nov. 27, 2006.
"Understanding attachment." Delaware Valley
Group, WAIMH. Dec. 1, 2006 .
"Strategies for picky eaters." Jan 31,
2007, NJ WIC training, Ewing, NJ.
"Just the facts,
ma'am: Asking and answering the right questions about evidence-based
treatment." May 17,
2007 . Florida Ft.
Lauderdale.
Panel on secular
parenting, moderated by Dale McGowan. Atheist Alliance
annual conference, Arlington , VA
"Circumstantial
Evidence: Evaluating Design and Details of Outcome Research" (poster
presentation). Dec. 1, 2007. Zero to Three National Training Institute,
Orlando, Florida.
"Theory of Mind: A
New Approach to Attachment." Conference of Coalition of Infant and Toddler
Educators, New Brunswick, NJ, March 14, 2008.
"Novel Unsupported
Therapies: Pseudoscientific and Cult-like". With Monica Pignotti and James
Herbert. International Cultic Studies Association conference, Philadelphia,
June 27, 2008.
"Attachment Theory,
Evidence-based Practice, and Rogue Therapies: Using and Misusing the Concept of
Attachment." With R.S. Pennington, L. Rosa, and L. Sarner. Wisconsin
School Psychologists Association conference, LaCrosse, WI, Oct. 29, 2008.
"Are There
Research-based Child Custody Evaluations? An Ongoing Case and an Ongoing
Discussion." Annual Conference, New Jersey
“A Problematic Parenting
Pattern Associated With Child Deaths.” Eastern Psychological Association,
March7, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Personalities and Power
Struggles: Discipline, Temperament, and Attachment.” Coalition of Infant and
Toddler Educators Annual Conference, March 14, 2009, Somerset, NJ.
“Don’t Be So [Un]critical!
Using Critical Thinking to Foster Mastery of Child development Concepts.” Developmental Science Teaching Institute,
Society for Research in Child Development, April 1, 2009, Denver, CO.
“Psychological Concepts
and Measures in the Family Court”. Judicial Orientation, Essex Vicinage (NJ).
Princeton, NJ, Oct. 2, 2009. (With Michelle DeKlyen, Ph.D.)
“Are There Research-Based
Child Custody Evaluations?”. Conference on Infants and Children in the Courts,
sponsored by Youth Consultation Service and NJAIMH; Clara Maass Medical Center,
Belleville, NJ, March 19, 2010.
“Unconventional
Psychotherapies: Some Questions About Their History.” Eastern Psychological
Association, March 11, 2011, Cambridge, MA.
“Myths and
Misunderstandings.” Conference of the Delaware Valley Group of the World
Association for Infant Mental Health, Feb. 3, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.
Comments on Attachment
Therapy and treatment of Russian adoptees. “Life with Mikhail Zelensky”,
Rossiya-1 TV, Feb. 21, 2013.
“Fetal Psychology in
Psychohistory.” Eastern Psychological Association, March 2, 2013, New York.
“Jirina Prekopova’s
holding therapy: Scientifically founded or otherwise?” Conference of the
International Working Group on Abuse in Child Psychotherapy, April 20, 2013,
London.
“ ‘Nancy Thomas parenting’ in the U.S. and
Russia: Another part of the holding therapy problem.” With Yulia Massino. Conference of the
International Working Group on Abuse in Child Psychotherapy, April 20, 2013,
London.
Testimony on “conversion
therapy” bill, New Jersey State Assembly committee, June, 2013, Trenton.
“Evidence-based treatment
versus alternative psychotherapies.” APLA
(Associace pomahajic lidem s autismem; Czech division of Autism Europe),
October 17, 2013, Prague, CR.
“What are holding
therapies?” APLA, October 19, 2013, Samechov, CR.
“About attachment”. PA-IMH
breakfast group, Oct. 3, 2014, Philadelphia, PA. APA CEUs given.
“Systematic
misunderstandings about attachment. Nov. 20, 2014, ABCT, Philadelphia, PA.
Preconference, “Social Learning”.
“Legislation to prohibit
potentially harmful psychotherapies for children: Three cases.” Poster presentation,
APA, Toronto, 2015.
“Challenges of
disseminating evidence-based material through the Web.” . Symposium: The Role
of Technology in Disseminating Psychology. APA, Toronto, 2015.
“Born that way! The role
of temperament”. PA-IMH breakfast group, Oct. 2, 2015.
“Temperament.”
Philadelphia School for the Deaf, Jan. 27, 2016.
“Evaluating mental health
interventions on Internet registries.” PA-IMH breakfast group, Sept. 9, 2016 (2
CEs).
“Internet registries and
clearinghouses: Evaluation of mental health interventions for children.” NCCCP,
Lawrence, KS, Sept. 23, 2016.
“Modern myths and
misperceptions: Parental Alienation”. With Steve Hupp. ABCT Social Learning and
the Family Preconference. New York, Oct. 26, 2016.
“Changing concepts of
attachment”. PA-IMH breakfast group, April 7, 2017 (2 CEs).
“Potentially harmful
psychotherapies for children: How not to be addicted to pseudoscience and
popular beliefs.” Conference on Modern Challenges: Psychology of Addictions,
sponsored by Moscow Psychoanalytic Institute and PSYCHOLOGIES, Moscow, Feb 10,
2018. (Presentation by Skype.) Available at https://yadi.sk/i/fMGcDn_e3TS5fZ.
“Pseudoscience and
Potentially Harmful Treatments for Children.” Workshop for College of Educational
and Developmental Psychologists, Hobart, Tasmania, May 9, 2018. 4 CE credits,
Australian Psychological Society.
“A pattern of systematic abuse associated with beliefs and
instruction.” Poster with Alan Misbach. APSAC Colloquium, New Orleans. June 14,
2018.
“Family engagement,
trauma, and attachment. “ Presented to PAIMH groups; Philadelphia, Sept. 7,
2018, Bethlehem PA, Sept. 14, 2018. (meets criteria for IMH endorsement credit)
Panelist, “A duty to warn?
A discussion of potentially harmful therapies.” ABCT conference, Nov. 17, 2018,
Washington, DC. Amanda Jensen-Doss, moderator.
“Examining the unexamined
belief: Claim, ground, warrant, and critical thinking about child development.”
Round table with Steve Hupp. Society for Research in Child Development
Teaching Institute, Baltimore,
March 20, 2019.
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