Wendy K. Silverman, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Directory
of the Child and Family Psychosocial Research Center at Florida
State University. Dr. Silverman conducts research on phobic and
anxiety disorders in children, with a particular interest in
designing and evaluating psychosocial interventions, and teaches
courses in developmental/clinical child psychology and graduate
courses in mental health (e.g., program evaluation,
psychotherapy,
ethics). She is the author of four books and over 100 research
articles and book chapters. She is currently editor of the Journal
of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and serves on the
editorial board of eight
other journals.
Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry
in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia
University. She has held positions as Director of the Anxiety
Disorders Clinical Research Service at the Child Study Center of
New York University Medical Center, as an assistant professor of
psychology at the University of Louisville, and as Assistant
Director of the Phobia and Anxiety Disorders Clinic of the State
University of New York at Albany.
Dr. Albano received her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi
and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the SUNY Phobia Clinic.
Dr. Albano has served in editorial positions for Cognitive and
Behavioral Practice,
and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. She is the
former Chair of the Continuing Education Issues Committee for AABT.
Her main clinical and research interests are in the development and
dissemination of empirically supported assessment and treatment
protocols for youth. In addition to school refusal, she and her
colleagues have developed cognitive behavioral treatment programs
for social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, and mixed anxiety
and depression.
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