Barbara L. Bonner Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training C itation

“For her passionate determination to improve the lives of children throughout the world by training countless profes­ sionals to be leaders in the field of child maltreatment, for her leadership in establishing one of the most highly re­ spected centers for the study of child maltreatment in the nation, and for directing an interdisciplinary training pro­ gram on child maltreatment, Barbara L. Bonner has con­ ducted workshops for students and professionals in over 40 countries, served as president of both the American Profes­ sional Society on the Abuse of Children and the Interna­ tional Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Ne­ glect, and helped to establish Division 37’s Section on Child Maltreatment. She constantly strives to ‘lift up’ and empower her students and trainees and has coauthored numerous publications with them.” B io g ra p h y

Barbara L. Bonner began her undergraduate studies in the Letters program at the University of Oklahoma and then learned about a new degree being offered—in special edu­ cation, working with children with cognitive disabilities and emotional problems. Her decision to change majors set the direction for a career in education, child psychology, and child maltreatment. During her teaching practicum, a November 2014 • American Psychologist © 2 0 1 4 American Psychological Association 0003-066X/14/$ 12.00 Vol. 69, No. 8, 789-791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037854

child with big, brown eyes returned shortly after going home for lunch to peer through the glass part of the class­ room door, clearly having no food at home. This was 1960, when there were no school lunch programs and no child protection systems to assist families. Bonner had not known such poverty and need existed so close to home, and wit­ nessing it had a lasting effect on her decision about her career. Bonner’s elementary-school teaching career was highly varied, ranging from classes of 35 children in the second and third grades from lower socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhoods to classes of 20 children from upper SES neighborhoods. Children from these classes made indelible impressions on her: a lonely third grader whose younger sister was the child of her biological father and older sister, an impish second grader who was paddled so hard by the principal that Bonner cried along with him, and a bright second grader who wrote “Ringo, Ringo, Ringo Star, How I wonder where you are, Are you underneath that hair? Ringo, Ringo, are you there?” and later died in the World Trade Center disaster. Following a stint with a publishing company developing one of the first remedial reading instruction programs on tape for children, Bonner obtained a master’s degree fo­ cused on educational assessment of children and returned to public education as a psychometrist. She then began a PhD program at Oklahoma State University in clinical psychol­ ogy, specializing in child psychology. Her internship at Children’s Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a year of intensive inpatient and outpatient therapy with disturbed children. One day in group therapy, a 7-year-old girl blurted out, “My brother raped me,” which in 1983 was rarely heard or adequately addressed. The defining experience of Bonner’s career was a post­ doctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at the Univer­ sity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), where she started and developed nationally recognized programs in child maltreatment. Under the guidance of C. Eugene Walker, she developed a treatment program for adolescents exhibiting illegal sexual behavior and obtained a federal grant to conduct a randomized controlled trial on two treatment approaches for children with sexual behavior problems. These two treatment programs have 10-year re­ cidivism rates of 2% and 3% and have been replicated across the United States. In 1987 under a federal grant from the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Terri Gallmeier and Bonner estab­ lished the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Child Abuse and Neglect (ITP), an advanced training program for graduate students in medicine, psychology, law, social work, dentistry, public health, nursing, and allied disci­ plines. The ITP was one of 10 nationally funded programs and is the only one that has been sustained for 25 years. It 789

is designed to provide future leaders in the treatment and prevention of child maltreatment who are rigorously trained in a balanced program of science and advocacy and who have respect for the contributions of the different disciplines in­ volved in the study of child maltreatment. The ITP has five core components: • a three-hour didactic seminar for two semesters taught by an interdisciplinary faculty; • a within-discipline practicum in which students have applied experiences in their own disciplines; • a cross-discipline practicum (30 hours) where stu­ dents observe child maltreatment cases and programs in settings such as criminal court, Child Advocacy Centers, a treatment program for adult sex offenders, and an investigative call by a Child Protective Ser­ vices worker; • participation in a mock trial in a courtroom with a juvenile judge and a jury; and • a special project, such as a research project, a program evaluation, or a discipline-specific project (e.g., a Court School developed by law students). The ITP has had 410 graduates since its inception, and a recent follow-up study of 214 students had an overall 67% response rate, with an 83% response rate from psychology students. On a scale from 1 to 10, the respondents reported an average rating of 9.12 for satisfaction with the ITP. The overall results indicated significant benefits to the field through increased knowledge, better participant decisions related to career and long-term goals, and increased leader­ ship in child maltreatment. The ITP was recognized with the Howard K. Berry Award from the Oklahoma County Bar Association in 2011 and has received funding from the Okla­ homa Presbyterian Foundation, the Goldman Foundation in New York, the Inasmuch Foundation in Oklahoma, the Okla­ homa Bar Foundation, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, and the Health Resources and Services Adminis­ tration (HRSA) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Bonner established the Center on Child Abuse and Ne­ glect (CCAN) in the Department of Pediatrics at OUHSC in 1992, starting with 1.5 faculty members and two assistants. The Center currently has 12 faculty members and 50 staff members, all externally funded. CCAN is nationally recog­ nized as a major training, educational, and research center for its training programs in treatment for children and adoles­ cents with problematic sexual behavior (Jane Silovsky), the Indian Country Child Trauma Center and Project Making Medicine (Dolores Subia Bigfoot), trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TFCBT; Susan Schmidt), parent-child in­ teraction therapy (PCIT; Beverly Funderburk), the Interdis­ ciplinary Training Program in Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Interdisciplinary Training Initiative for Underserved Chil­ dren. In addition, CCAN sponsors an annual Oklahoma Con­

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ference on Child Abuse and Neglect and research projects involving home visitation, use of technology in the dissem­ ination of therapeutic interventions, prevention of child maltreatment, children with sexual behavior problems, the SafeCare curriculum, therapeutic interventions with mal­ treated children and their caregivers, and prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome in Russian children (with Tatiana Balachova, David Bard, Mark Chaffin, Debra Hecht, Beverly Funderburk, Jane Silovsky, and Bonner). Bonner received a recent grant from HRSA, co-authored by Tatiana Balachova, focused on training psychology in­ terns to work with underserved children. The Interdisciplin­ ary Training Initiative for Underserved Children (ITIUC) is a joint effort by HRSA and the American Psychological Asso­ ciation (APA) to increase training opportunities for psychol­ ogy students seeking internship positions. The ITIUC com­ bines the core components of the ITP, ensuring interdisciplinary experiences, with components unique to the field of psychology and child maltreatment: mastering evidence-based treatment in­ terventions in PCIT and TFCBT; advanced training in ethics; and increased involvement in research. The training program will prepare interns to provide specialized, evidence-based care for maltreated children and their caregivers. Bonner has provided supervision and mentorship to nu­ merous child psychology interns and postdoctoral fellows through the APA-approved internship and fellowship pro­ grams at OUHSC. She is known for motivating students to take the next step: to run for an office in an APA division, to organize and chair a presentation of national experts in mal­ treatment at an APA conference, to advocate for legislation at the state and federal levels, or to agree to provide treatment for a highly complicated case of child sexual abuse. On a broader scale, Bonner has influenced the field of child maltreatment through her leadership and training at the national and international levels. She has served as president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Chil­ dren (APSAC) and the International Society for the Preven­ tion of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN). Through these organizations, she has trained psychologists, pediatricians, attorneys, psychiatrists, and other professionals throughout the United States and in over 40 countries, including Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Malaysia, Colombia, China, Syria, Be­ larus, Bhutan, Saudi Arabia, Croatia, and Jordan. Her research and publications have focused on interven­ tions for children with problematic sexual behavior, preven­ tion of child abuse fatalities, risk levels for abuse of infants in neonatal intensive care units, and prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome in Russian children. She has received numerous awards, including the Ronald C. Laney Distinguished Service Award from APSAC, the Byliner Award for Child Advocacy from the Association for Women in Communications, the Outstanding Woman in Pediatric Medicine Award from OUHSC, Pan Hellenic Woman of the Year from the Okla­ homa City Area Alumnae Panhellenic, the Regents’ Award

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for Superior Professional and University Service from OUHSC, the Pro Humanitate Literary Award from the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare, and the Nich­ olas Hobbs Award for Child Advocacy from APA Division

37 . S e le c te d B i b l io g r a p h y Balachova, T., Bonner, B. L., & Alexeeva, I. (2009). Child maltreatment in Russia. International Journal o f Child Health and Human Development, 2(3), 277-286. Balachova, T., Bonner, B. L., Bard, D., Chaffin, M., Isurina, G., Owora, A., Tsvetkova, L., & Volkova, E. (2014). Women’s receptivity to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders prevention approaches: A case study of two regions in Russia. International Journal o f Alcohol and Drug Research, 3(1), 5-15. doi:10.7895/ijadr.v3il.l58 Balachova, T., Bonner, B. L., Chaffin, M., Bard, D., Isurina, G., Tsvetkova, L., & Volkova, E. (2012). Women’s alcohol consumption and risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancies in Russia. Addiction, 707(1), 109-117. doi: 10.1111/j. 1360-0443.2011.03569.x Balachova, T., Bonner, B. L., Chaffin, M., Isurina, G., Shapkaitz, V., Tsvetkova, L., . . . Knowlton, N. (2013). Brief FASD prevention inter­ vention: Physicians’ skills demonstrated in a clinical trial in Russia. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 8( I). doi: 10.1186/1940-0640-8-1 Balachova, T., Bonner, B. L., Chaffin, M., Isurina, G., & Tsvetkova, L. (2008). Preventing fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and alcohol related neurodevelopmental disorders (ARND) in Russian children. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 32(Suppl. 1), 231 A. (Special issue: Joint Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, June 27July 2, 2008, Washington, DC) Balachova, T., Bonner, B. L., & Isurina, G. (2012). Preventing FASD in Russia. Fetal Alcohol Forum: The FASD Medical e-Network, 7, 38-45. Balachova, T. N., Bonner, B. L., Isurina, G. L., & Tsvetkova, L. A. (2007). Use of focus groups in developing FAS/FASD prevention in Russia. Substance Use & Misuse, 42, 8 8 1 -8 9 4 . doi: 10.1080/ 10826080701202601 Balachova, T. N., Bonner, B. L., & Levy S. (2009). Street children in Russia: Steps to prevention. International Journal o f Social Welfare, 18, 27-44. doi: 10.1111/j. 1468-2397.2008.00573.X

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Bonner, B. L. (2009). Taking action: Support fo r families o f adolescents with illegal sexual behavior. Brandon, VT: Safer Society Press. Bonner, B. L., & Gillaspy, S. (2009). Child maltreatment. In M. E. Roberts (Ed.), Handbook o f pediatric psychology (4th ed., pp. 556-571). New York, NY: Guilford Press. Damashek, A., Balachova, T., & Bonner, B. L. (2011). Training competent psychologists in the field of child maltreatment. Journal o f Clinical Psychology, 67(1), 752-757. doi:10.1002/jclp.20803 Damashek, A., & Bonner. B. L. (2010). Factors related to sibling removal after a child maltreatment fatality. Child Abuse & Neglect, 34, 563-569. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2009.12.006 Damashek, A., & Bonner, B. L. (2014). Child maltreatment fatalities related to inadequate caregiver supervision. Journal o f Interpersonal Violence, 29, 1987-2001. doi: 10.1177/0886260513515951 Damashek, A., Nelson, M. M., & Bonner, B. L. (2013). Fatal child mal­ treatment: Characteristics of deaths from physical abuse versus neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37(10), 735-744. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.04 .014 Nandyal, R., Owora, A., Risch, E. C., Bard, D., Bonner, B., & Chaffin, M. (2013). Special care needs and risk for child maltreatment reports among babies that graduated from the Neonatal Intensive Care. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37(12), 1114-1121. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.04.003 Owora, A. H., Chaffin, M., Risch, E., Nandyal, R., Bonner, B. L., & Carabin, H. (2014). Medical surveillance and child maltreatment inci­ dence reporting among infants discharged from neonatal intensive care. Manuscript submitted for publication. Risch, E. C., Owora, A., Nandyal, R., Chaffin, M., & Bonner, B. L. (2014). Risk factors for child maltreatment among infants discharged from a neonatal intensive care unit: A sibling comparison. Child Maltreatment, 19, 92-100. doi: 10.1177/1077559514539387 Schmidt, S. R„ Bonner, B. L., & Chaffin. M. (2012). Understanding and treating adolescents with illegal sexual behavior. In P. Goodyear-Brown (Ed.), Handbook o f child sexual abuse: Identification, assessment, and treatment (pp. 469-485). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Shanley, J. R., Risch, E. C., & Bonner, B. L. (2010). U.S. child death review programs: Assessing progress toward a standard review process. Ameri­ can Journal o f Preventive Medicine, 39, 522-528. doi:10.1016/j.amepre .2010.08.010 Welch, G. L., & Bonner, B. L. (2013). Fatal child neglect: Characteristics, causation, and strategies for prevention. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37(10), 745-752. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.05.008

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Barbara L. Bonner: Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training.

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