CURRICULUM
VITAE
                                                   JEAN
MERCER*
134 E. Main St., Moorestown, NJ 08057
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 
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 
Association for Infant Mental Health, 1996-2000
           
President, New Jersey 
Association for Infant Mental Health, 2000-2005
            Past
president, ex officio Board of Directors member, NJAIMH, 2005- 2009
            Member,
Prevention and Early Intervention Committee, New Jersey  Community
                 Mental Health Board, 2000-2002
            Consulting
editor, Scientific Review of Mental
Health Practice, 2002-2010  
            Member, New Jersey  Better Baby
Care Campaign Advisory Committee, 2002-3
Fellow, Council for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health,
2003-
  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)
Expert witness, Thibault
vs. Thibault, Pasco County, Florida, 2006 (child custody and discipline matter)
Expert witness, California  vs. Sylvia
Jovanna Vasquez, Santa Barbara County, CA,         2007
(child abuse matter) 
  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-
 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
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  Cliffs, NJ:
            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). New York: Guilford. 
Mercer, J. (2015, in
press). Attachment therapies. In R. Cautin &  S.O. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical psychology. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Mercer, J. (2015, in
press). 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 DIR/Floortime as a treatment
for children with autism spectrum disorders. Research on Social Work Practice, 25(1-11).
Mercer, J. (2015),
Examining Circle of Security: A review of research and theory. Research on Social Work Practice, 25(3),
382-392. 
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. (ed.) (in preparation). Encyclopedia of child development. Vol. 6 (Family).
Wiley-Blackwell.
BLOGS AND OTHER INTERNET MATERIALS:
“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 
presenter, Infant Mental Health Systems Development Summit conference,
sponsored by Mailman Foundation/Zero to Three. Washington  DC 
New Jersey Perinatal Mood
Disorders training program presentations, 2005-2006.
“Dangerous therapies”,
with Alan Misbach. LCSW.  Independent
Educational Consultants Association conference, Philadelphia , Nov. 14, 2005. 
"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 
Association for Infant Mental Health, Ft. 
Lauderdale.
Panel on secular
parenting, moderated by Dale McGowan. Atheist Alliance  International,
             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  Association
for Infant Mental Health, Dec. 12, 2008, North Brunswick, NJ.
“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.”
Philadelphioa School for the Deaf, Jan. 27, 2016.
 

 
 
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