Self Injurious Behaviors


Self Injurious Behaviors: Trends and Treatments

Friday, March 09, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth McCauley, Ph.D.


Elizabeth McCauley completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and her Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently an associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, with an adjunct appointment in the department of psychology, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Elizabeth is the clinical director of the Inpatient and Partial Psychiatry Hospitalization Programs at the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center and the psychology head for the University of Washington’s Adolescent Health Training Program. She teaches and provides clinical supervision in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Elizabeth also lectures on adolescent development and psychopathology to pediatric residents and psychology students. Her research has focused on mood disorders in children and adolescents, and on the behavioral aspects of endocrine and sex chromosome anomalies. She is currently working on a federally funded study of a preventive intervention for at-risk high school students.

Pictures from the 2007 Symposium