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School Psychology

Faculty

The School Psychology Program has four full-time faculty members, two of which hold a doctorate with specialization in school psychology and who are actively engaged in school psychology as a profession.

Jack A. Naglieri, Ph.D.
Professor, School Psychology faculty member
Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Georgia, 1979 (School Psychology)

Research Interests: Psychological and Educational Assessment of children and adults; cognitive processing and cognitively based academic instruction; theories and measurement of intelligence; fair assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

Ellen Rowe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School Psychology faculty member
Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Georgia, 2005 (School Psychology)

Research Interests: Assessment of and interventions for emotional, behavioral, and adjustment problems in children and adolescents.

Johannes Rojahn, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, School Psychology Program
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Vienna (Austria), 1976

Research Interests: Intellectual and developmental disabilities; severe behavior problems and other forms of psychopathology (epidemiology, assessment, applied behavior analysis); socio-emotional development in mental retardation and its relationship with interpersonal functioning and social competence.

Susanne A. Denham, Ph.D.
University Professor, Director, Applied Developmental program and School Psychology faculty member
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1985

Research Interests: Social-emotional development in pre-schoolers and grade-schoolers; Developmental psychopathology; Social-emotional assessment; Socialization of emotional competence by parents, peers, and teachers

Affililiated Faculty

Lisa J. Meier, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Psychological Services
Ph.D., George Mason University, 1993

Dawna Thompson, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Cognitive Assessment Program
Ph.D., George Mason University, 1998

Sharon Harrell
Adjunct, School Psychology