William Ellerbe Pelham Jr. is an American clinical psychologist known for his research on

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. He is Distinguished University Professor and director of the Center for Children and Families at

Florida International University Florida International University (FIU) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in Miami-Dade County. Founded in 1965, the school opened its doors to students in 1972. FIU has grown to become the third-largest uni ...

. He was educated at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

and the

State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

. He is a fellow of the

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(APA) and the

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, and he has served as president of the APA's Division 53 (the

Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP) is an academic and professional society in the United States that was established to encourage the development and advancement of clinical child and adolescent psychology through int ...

) and the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Education and academic career

Pelham received his

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from

in 1970 and his

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clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

from the

in 1976. Before joining the faculty of FIU in 2010, he taught at the

State University of New York at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

, where he ran a program and

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for children with ADHD for fourteen years. When he joined the faculty of FIU, he took the ADHD program with him. He also taught at

Washington State University Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant unive ...

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, and the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

before joining FIU.

References

External links

Faculty page
* Living people American clinical psychologists American child psychologists Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder researchers Fellows of the American Psychological Association Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science Dartmouth College alumni Stony Brook University alumni Florida International University faculty University at Buffalo faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-psychologist-stub