Child, Family, and School Psychology Faculty
Karin Dittrick-Nathan, Program Chair, Assistant Clinical Professor, Child, Family, and School Psychology Program 
PhD, MA, University of Denver; BA, University of Southern Colorado
Career highlights: Served as coordinator for Rocky Mountain Talent Search, responsible for programming for gifted and talented middle school students; assisted students from preschool through young adulthood with learning and developmental disabilities; served as an academic counselor at the Learning Effectiveness Program at DU, advising and tutoring students with diagnosed learning disabilities; worked as a school psychologist in Jefferson County.
Research interests: problem gambling in adolescents and process addiction.
E-mail: kdittric@du.edu
Karin Dittrick-Nathan Resume
Cynthia E. Hazel, Assistant Professor, Child, Family, and School Psychology Program 
PhD, University of Northern Colorado; MA Vermont College; BA Arizona State University
Career highlights: Received the APA Division 16 2003 Paul Henkin Student Travel Award; selected to attend the Future of School Psychology 2002 Invitational Conference; served as the 2002-2003 Behavior Evaluation and Support Team Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education.
Research interests: school-wide change, peer harassment, school safety, consultation, policy analysis, and interpretivist research methodologies.
Professional affiliations: American Psychological Association; American Psychological Association, Division 16: School Psychology; American Psychological Association, Division 27: Society for Community Research and Action; National Association of School Psychologists; Colorado Society of School Psychologists.
E-mail: chazel@du.edu
Cynthia E. Hazel Vita
Toni W. Linder, Professor, Child, Family, and School Psychology Program 
EdD and MA, University of Northern Colorado; BS Iowa State University, educational psychology
Career highlights: Authored most recently: Transdisciplinary Play-based Assessment; Transdisciplinary Play-based Intervention; and Read, Play, and Learn; awarded University of Denver Lecturer, 1994; funded on numerous proposals by the U.S. Office of Education, Office of Special Education Programs for personnel preparation, leadership training and field-initiated grants.
Research interests: Early education, assessment of young children, intervention with young children, families at risk.
Professional affiliations: Council for Exceptional Children, National Association for the Education of Young Children, American Association of University Women.
E-mail: tlinder@du.edu
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MB McDermott, Practicum and Internship Supervisor, Child, Family, and School Psychology Program
CAES, MA Boston College; MBA University of Colorado, Denver; BA University of Massachusetts; University of Denver, Administration Preparation Program
Career highlights: Worked as a school psychologist for over 20 years in Colorado, Massachusetts and California with a recent focus on early childhood. Served as a special education administrator for eight years. Functioned as Treasurer, Newsletter Editor and Program Chair for the Colorado Society of School Psychologists (CSSP). Co-Authored the Cooperative Assessment Guidelines for school practitioners for the Colorado Rehabilitation Services (CRS).
Research interests: Early childhood educational leadership and cultural diversity
E-mail: mmcdermo@du.edu
Gloria E. Miller, Professor, Child, Family, and School Psychology Program 
PhD and MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison; BA State University of New York at Potsdam, school psychology
Career highlights: Member of the Colorado Consortium of Trainers in School Psychology; functions as an editorial board member for three major professional journals; serves as a member of the board of trustees for the Mount St. Vincent Home, a local youth residential center and school program; awarded $1.25 million, five-year federal personnel preparation grant from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education to develop and evaluate a predoctoral EdS training concentration in early childhood school psychology; co-authored Handbook of Educational Psychology; co-authored Engagement of Families in Early Intervention for Childhood Conduct Problems.
Research interests: literacy and early childhood development, prevention of conduct disorders in children and adolescents, individual counseling and familial intervention and involvement.
Professional affiliations: American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, National Association of School Psychologists.
E-mail: glmiller@du.edu
Karen S. Riley, Assistant Professor, Child, Family, and School Psychology Program 
PhD, MA, University of Denver; BS, Colorado State University
Career highlights: Invited to establish in 2005 the Middle East Fragile X Treatment and Research Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; serves as a co-principal investigator "Project InSPECT: Integrated School Psychology Early Childhood Training," a $1.25 million U.S. Office of Special Education personnel preparation grant; co-authored "The Treatment of Emotional and Behavioral Problems;" in Fragile X Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment and Research; participated as an invited guest speaker at the International Workshop of Fragile X Syndrome Taipei, Taiwan, 2001; received the FRAXA Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Research interests: Fragile X Syndrome, early childhood assessment and intervention, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and behavioral interventions.
E-mail: kriley@du.edu
Shayna Brody Whitehouse, Co-Director, Counseling and Educational Services Clinic 
PhD, MA, University of Denver; BA, Case Western Reserve University
Career Highlights: Works as a School Psychologist and Special Education Preschool Coordinator; Received Miller Research and Travel Support Fund; Received the Outstanding School Psychology Student Award from the Colorado Society of School Psychologists.
Research Interests: Transition from elementary to middle level school and its effect on the development of students from different cultural and gender groups, anxiety assessment during transition to middle level schools, the impact of adult/student relationships on the transition to middle level schools and prevention of school disengagement, multicultural cognitive and processing assessment.
Professional Affiliations: CSSP and NASP
E-Mail: shayna.whitehouse@du.edu