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W. Hobart Davies, Associate Professor

Prof. W. Hobart Davies

Office: Garland Hall, Room 202c
Phone: 414-229-6594
e-mail: hobart@uwm.edu
Lab Site: http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/hobart/www/

Degree:
Ph.D., Michigan State University 1992

Research Interests:
Pediatric Psychology, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Pediatric Feeding Disorders, Pediatric Chronic Illness, Community Violence, Child Abuse.

Teaching Interests:
My clinical, teaching and research interests center on the adjustment of children and families under conditions of severe stress. Current projects focus on the interdisciplinary care of pediatric feeding disorders, interventions with youth victims of community violence, chronic illness, stalking behaviors, and forensic child abuse investigation.

Recent Publications:
Fitzgerald, H.E., Davies, W.H., & Zucker, R.A. (in press). Growing up in an alcoholic family: Structuring pathways for risk aggregation and theory-driven intervention. In R.J. McMahon & R. DeV. Peters (Eds.), Children of disordered parents.

Phelps, L.F., McCart, M.R., & Davies, W.H. (2002). The impact of community violence on children and parents: Development of contextual assessments. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse: A Review Journal, 3, 194-209.

Hains, A.A., Davies, W.H., Behrends, D. Freeman, M.E., & Biller, J.A. (2001). Effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral intervention for young adults with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 8, 325-336.

Davies, W.H., Garwood, M.M., O'Conor, A.R., & Carron, A. (2001). The language of distress: The role of on-going assessment in understanding true and false allegations of sexual abuse. In W.N. Friedrich (Ed.), Psychological assessment of sexually abused children, and their parents, (pp. 270-279). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Davies, W. H. & Garwood, M. M. (2001). Who are the perpetrators and why do they do it? Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 5, 41-54 (special issue on Shaken Infant Syndrome). Also appeared in S. Lazoritz & V.J. Palusci (Eds.) (2001), The shaken infant syndrome: A multidisciplinary approach, 41-54. Binghamton, NY: Haworth.

Fredrich, W.N., Fisher, J., Acton, R., Berliner, L., Butler, J., Damon, L., Davies, W.H., Gray, A., & Wright, J. (2001). Child Sexual Behavior Inventory: Normative, psychiatric, and sexual abuse comparisons. Child Maltreatment, 6, 37-49.

Hains, A.A., Davies, W.H., Parton, E., & Silverman, A.H. (2001). A cognitive behavioral intervention for emotionally distressed adolescents with Type I diabetes. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 26, 61-66.

Hains, A.A., Davies, W.H., Parton, E., Totka, J., & Amoroso-Camarata, J. (2000). A stress management intervention for adolescents with insulin-dependent diabetes. The Diabetes Educator, 26, 417-424.

Noll, R.B., Gartstein, M.A., Vannatta, K., Correll, J., Bukowski, W. M., & Davies, W.H. (1999). Social, emotional and behavioral functioning of children with cancer. Pediatrics, 103, 71-78.