Social & Emotional Health in Early Childhood Building Bridges Between Services & Systems (Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health) Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

Dr. Perry is Director of the Women (TM)s and Children (TM)s Health Policy Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Perry (TM)s research concerns women and children who are at risk for mental health disorders. She is the co-principal investigator of a research grant testing a preventive intervention for post-partum depression in Latina women. As Director of Research at the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, she served as project director for an urban mental health grant focusing on maternal depression in low income families of color. She has worked with states and counties to develop and evaluate systems of care for young children under the age of 6 with or at risk for special needs. Dr. Perry has conducted research into the effectiveness of mental health consultation to early care and education providers. She has a doctoral degree in maternal and child health from Johns Hopkins University and a master (TM)s degree in psychology from the New School for Social Research. She is also the mother of an 11-year-old daughter, Grace.

Roxane Kaufman is Director of Early Childhood Policy at Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development in Washington, DC.

Since joining the faculty at Georgetown University in the early 1980s, Ms. Kaufmann has been a strong advocate for the development of integrated services, supports, and systems for young children and their families. As part of the National Technical Assistance Center for Children (TM)s Mental Health, she plays a leadership role in supporting the work of states and communities in developing early childhood mental health systems of care through the facilitation of strategic planning, targeted technical assistance, and the development of materials. Ms. Kaufmann has directed projects providing training and technical assistance to agencies such as Head Start and to programs such as child care, mental health, education, public health, and special education. She has written manuscripts, articles, and training materials on early intervention in the context of systems development. In addition, she developed curricula and provided training and technical assistance to twenty-eight countries from Eastern Europe and Central Asia in support of their education reform efforts.

The late Jane Knitzer, Ed.D. was Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty, and Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.

In addition to her work with the National Center for Children in Poverty, Dr. Knitzer was also a Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. As a psychologist, Dr. Knitzer focused her own research on improving public policies related to children's mental health, child welfare, and early childhood. Her work on mental health included the ground-breaking policy report, Unclaimed Children: The Failure of Public Responsibility to Children and Adolescents in Need of Mental Health Services (Children's Defense Fund, 1982). Most recently, she was a leader in calling attention to the importance of addressing social and emotional issues in young children. Dr. Knitzer was on the faculty at Cornell University, New York University, and Bank Street College of Education. She was a member of the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children and a past president of Division 37: Child, Youth, and Family Services of the American Psychological Association, and a member of the American Association of Orthopsychiatry. She was the first recipient of the Nicolas Hobbs Award for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Child Advocacy from the American Psychological Association.

Ms. Stroul is a consultant in the area of mental health policy and has completed numerous research, evaluation, policy analysis, and technical assistance projects related to service systems for children and adolescents with emotional disorders and their families. As one of the architects of the concept of community-based systems of care, she has published extensively in the children (TM)s mental health field and is co-editor of the Systems of Care for Children (TM)s Mental Health ongoing book series. She is a senior consultant to the National Technical Assistance Center for Children (TM)s Mental Health at Georgetown University and to the national evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. She served on the mental health working group of the President (TM)s Task Force on Health Care Reform and more recently served as a consultant to the President (TM)s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. She has been honored by the Federation of Families for Children (TM)s Mental Health with the Claiming Children Award and by the American Psychological Association with the Distinguished Contribution to Child Advocacy Award.

Paul J. Donahue, Ph.D., is the Director of Early Childhood Consultation at The Center for Preventive Psychiatry in White Plains, New York. He has written and lectured widely on the impact of trauma on children and the assessment and treatment of young children and their parents. Dr. Donahue has been active in designing mental health services for Head Start and has served on a national committee charged with rewriting the federal definition of mental health in childhood. Dr. Donahue is in private practice in Scarsdale, New York.

Glen Dunlap, Ph.D., has been involved with individuals with disabilities for more than 45 years and has served as a teacher, administrator, researcher, and university faculty member. He has directed numerous research and training projects and has been awarded dozens of federal and state grants to pursue this work. He has authored more than 250 articles and book chapters, co-edited numerous books, and served on 15 editorial boards. He was one of the founders of the Association for Positive Behavior Support, and served terms as treasurer and president of that organization. He is also the lead author on each of the books in the PTR series. Dr. Dunlap was a founding editor of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions and served for 10 years as the editor of Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. Dr. Dunlap lives in Reno, NV and is affiliated with the University of Nevada, Reno.

Beth Falk, Ph.D., is a school psychologist in the Byram Hills School District in Armonk, New York. Dr. Falk began her career as a special education teacher in New York City. As a school psychologist, she continues to promote effective partnerships among families, educators, and mental health professionals. While on the staff of The Center for Preventive Psychiatry, Dr. Falk provided consultation to local Head Start centers and clinical services to children and families affected by human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Dr. Falk is in private practice in Mount Kisco, New York.

Dr. Lise Fox is a professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, and is Co-Director of the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities: A University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Fox is one of the developers of the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children and has authored 95 books, book chapters, and articles. She has developed and managed numerous technical assistance, research, model demonstration, and personnel preparation projects in the areas of early childhood special education, state capacity building, implementation of the Pyramid Model, preventing and addressing challenging behavior, and Positive Behavior Support. She is the director of the National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations.

Mareasa R. Isaacs, Ph.D., is Coordinator of the Urban Mental Health Initiative at The Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, MD.

Anne Gersony Provet, Ph.D., is a supervising psychologist and the Coordinator for Early Intervention Services at The Center for Preventive Psychiatry in White Plains, New York. Dr. Provet began her career as an early childhood educator. Her current clinical interests include building resilience and reducing stress in young children and their families. Dr. Provet has investigated the long-term effects of risk and protective factors first identified in early childhood. Her work has been published in academic journals and edited volumes. Dr. Provet is in private practice in Yorktown Heights, New York.