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Scott O. Lilienfeld is Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta.  He received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Minnesota in 1990.  Dr. Lilienfeld is Associate Editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, past President of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, and current President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.  Dr. Lilienfeld has published over 300 manuscripts on personality disorders (especially psychopathy), dissociative disorders, psychiatric classification, pseudoscience in psychology, and evidence-based practices in clinical psychology.  Dr. Lilienfeld is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and (along with Dr. Hal Arkowitz) a regular columnist for Scientific American Mind magazine.  In 1998, Dr. Lilienfeld received the David Shakow Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Clinical Psychology from APA Division 12, and in 2012 he was the recipient of the James McKeen Cattell Award for Career Contributions to Applied Psychological Science from the Association for Psychological Science.  

John Edens, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, where he is also a Cornerstone Faculty Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts. His research focuses primarily on personality constructs (particularly psychopathy), mental health evidence, and their applications to legal decision-making. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles on these and related topics in the past 15 years. He is a former recipient of the American Psychology-Law Society Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Contributions to Law and Psychology.

Dr. Joseph P. Newman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was formerly Department Chair and Director of Clinical Training. Professor Newman is renowned internationally for his theoretical and empirical contributions delineating psychobiological mechanisms of behavioral inhibition, reflectivity, and self-regulation and the implications of these mechanisms for psychopathy and other forms of disinhibitory psychopathology. Professor Newman has been a Fellow of the American Psychological Society since 2002, was elected inaugural President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy in 2005, and received the R. D. Hare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to psychopathy in 2009.

Essi Viding conducted her PhD and post-doctoral research at the Institute of Psychiatry, London working with Profs Francesca Happé and Robert Plomin. She is currently Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London and adjunct faculty at Yale University Medical School Child Study Center. Her research combines different methodologies in an effort to chart different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour.

Matt Matravers is Director of the Morrell Centre for Toleration at the University of York where he has worked since 1995. He is particularly interested in three things: first, the relationship between theories of distributive justice (who gets what) and theories of retributive justice (accounts of the justifiability of punishment). This interest underpins his book, Justice and Punishment. Second, the idea of responsibility (again, in both distributive and retributive justice) and whether we can ever legitimately be held responsible for anything. This interest underpins a number of papers on the so-called ‘Equality of What?’ problem, and his book, Responsibility and Justice. Third, the problem of ‘dangerousness’, with particular reference to severely personality disordered people.

Vivienne de Vogel is a psychologist and head of the Department of Research at the Van der Hoeven Kliniek in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on violence risk assessment, including protective factors and violence (risk assessment) in women. She is the first author of two risk assessment tools: the SAPROF (Structured Assessment of PROtective Factors) for the assessment of protective factors and the FAM (Female Additional Manual), an additional manual to the HCR-20 for violence risk assessment in women.

Dr. Catrin Morrissey is the Lead Psychologist in the National High Secure Learning Disability Service at Rampton Hospital, in the UK. She is Honorary Visiting Fellow at University of Cambridge and Honorary associate Professor at University of Nottingham. She works clinically with patients with intellectual disabilities who also have personality disorders and has published widely on assessment and treatment for this group.

Randy Salekin is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alabama (UA). Dr. Salekin also serves as the Director of the Disruptive Behavior Clinic and the Associate Director of the Center for the Prevention on Youth Behavior Problems at UA. Dr. Salekin’s research focuses on understanding of the causes and correlates of disruptive behavior in children and youth, particularly those with interpersonal callous traits. He currently serves as the director for treatment at three sites including the Disruptive Behavior Clinic at the University of Alabama, a Secure Residential Facility in Birmingham Alabama, and a Regional Detention Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Dr. Salekin and his team provide assessment and treatment services for disruptive behavior disorder youth with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Conduct Disorder (CD), and Low Prosocial Emotion (LPE).  Dr. Salekin has been the recipient of numerous awards including the APA Saleem Shah early career award for excellence as a young scientist. Dr. Salekin is the author of over 100 scientific journal articles and is the author of the leading handbook on child psychopathy titled “Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy” published by Guilford Press. He is also the author of the up-coming book “Forensic Evaluation and Treatment of Juveniles: Innovation and Best Practice” which is in press with the American Psychological Association.

Jon Taylor is a consultant forensic psychologist and psychotherapist with a particular interest in the treatment of offenders with intellectual disability and personality disorder. Jon was instrumental in the development of a treatment programme for offenders with intellectual disability and severe personality disorder at the national ID high secure service and has led on the development of a similar programme within a medium secure service at St. Andrews Healthcare in the UK. He has also lead on the implementation of a treatment programme for prisoners with intellectual disability and personality disorder across three English prisons and has developed a Structured Professional Judgement Assessment tool to support the identification of treatment needs for this particular population. 

Dr. Kasia Uzieblo is a Senior Lecturer at the Thomas More University College and visiting professor at Ghent University, where she teaches forensic psychology. She is also the founder and coordinator of the postgraduate course Forensic Psychological Assessment and Counseling. For the last decade her research has been focusing on psychopathy. More specifically, she has been examining the affective and cognitive deficits in psychopathy, the social interactions of psychopathic individuals, and the validity of psychopathy measures. An additional research focus concerns the evaluation and development of evidence-based psychological assessment guidelines in forensic populations (e.g. sexual offenders and offenders with cognitive disabilities). Her research has resulted in several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books in the fields of clinical, investigative and forensic psychology. 

Stephen Wong, Ph.D. is Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK and Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.  He started his career as a staff psychologist in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at the Regional Psychiatric Centre, a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in the Correctional Service of Canada.  He was later appointed Chief of Psychology and Research and then the Director of Research.  In 2008, he left Canada to spend a year as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, London before moving to Nottingham.  He moved again recently and is now in Chengdu, Sichuan, China for the next three years. His research focuses on the assessment and treatment of violent, sexual and psychopathic offenders. He is the lead author of the Violence Risk Scale, the Violence Risk Scale- sexual offender version, and the Violence Risk Scale - youth version: tools that can be used to assess violence risk and to guide treatment delivery.  With Audrey Gordon, he also developed the Violence Reduction Programme, a treatment programme for violence prone offenders including those with psychopathic traits. The assessment tools and treatment programme are now in use in forensic health and prison services internationally.  He has published extensive in the areas of risk assessment, treatment and psychopathy.

Evelyn Klein Haneveld was trained as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. She has worked in forensic psychiatry since 2006. She is currently head of the Department for Assessment and Psychotherapy in the Van Der Hoevenkliniek in the Netherlands, a high security hospital for severely violent and sexually violent offenders. She is also involved in a research project on the treatability of psychopathic patients.

David P. Bernstein, Ph.D. is ‘Professor of Forensic Psychotherapy’ (endowed chair) at Maastricht University and Forensic Psychiatric Center ‘de Rooyse Wissel.’  He received his doctoral degree from New York University in 1990.  He joined the faculty of Maastricht University in 2004, where he now serves as Chair of the Forensic Psychology Section in the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.  He is a former Vice-President of the International Society for Schema Therapy, and is a past President of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders.  His research spans a wide range of areas, including forensic psychology, psychotherapy, personality disorders, childhood trauma, and addictions.  He is an internationally known expert on Schema Therapy, an integrative psychotherapy for personality disorders.  He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications.  His current research focuses on developing, testing, and implementing innovative forms of therapy for forensic patients with personality disorders.  He is also author of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, a widely used self-report measure of child abuse and neglect.

Eva R. Kimonis, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She received her Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of New Orleans, with a specialization in developmental psychopathology and forensic psychology. Her postgraduate research focused on emotional deficits in community and incarcerated youth with psychopathic traits. Following her postgraduate studies, Dr. Kimonis was awarded a Postdoctoral Institutional Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to complete her postdoctoral fellowship training at the University of California, Irvine, with a focus on legal and policy issues. She also completed clinical-forensic postdoctoral residences with the Institute for Behavioral Sciences and the Law in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the University of South Florida’s Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Development. She holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida’s Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute in Tampa, Florida, where she was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013. She is also the proud recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to improve the identification of Cypriot youth at risk for severe behavior problems to implement evidence-based interventions.     

Dr. Kimonis’ program of research focuses on the development, assessment, and treatment of psychopathic traits and aggressive behavior in youth. She has special interest in risk factors of childhood maltreatment and deficits in emotional processing. Her research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals in the fields of clinical, developmental, and forensic psychology, including Development and Psychopathology, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Law and Human Behavior, and Behavioral Sciences and the Law. She has authored several book chapters on childhood disruptive behavior disorders and juvenile psychopathy. Dr. Kimonis is an experienced provider of parent management training interventions, and specifically Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for young children with disruptive behaviors. She has developed a version of PCIT for families of children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits (i.e., lack of empathy/guilt, uncaring attitudes, callousness), which is the focus of this presentation.