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Gina Richman is the Director of the Child and Family Therapy Clinic in the Behavioral Psychology Department of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Richman graduated from Florida State University where she received her Masters Degree and then her Ph.D. in 1986. She completed her Pre-Doctoral Internship training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and her Post-Doctoral Fellowhip at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Richman has been a licensed psychologist in the state of Maryland since 1989. Dr. Richman held the positions of Co-Director of Outpatient Services and Director of Training for the Department of Behavioral Psychology at Kennedy Krieger before becoming Director of the Child and Family Therapy Clinic in 1990.
Dr. Richman is a clinical psychologist with special interest in behavioral family therapy approaches to treating behavior problems in children and adolescents. Her clinical research has focused on the identification of variables influencing the efficacy and outcome of treatment with children and their families. Her clinical activities provide the foundation for her research endeavors, including the identification of stressors specific to grandparent-headed families; developing interventions to increase successful therapy outcome and patient show rate; and development of an observation system to systematically evaluate dysfunctional parent-child interactions.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Hayes, R.A., Efron, L.A., Soeken, E.L., Richman, G.S., & Harrison, K.A. (2000). The effects of behavioral contracting and preferred reinforcement on appointment keeping. Behavior Change, 17 (2), 90-96.
Harrison, K.A., Richman, G.S., & Vittimberga, G.L. (2000). Parental stress in grandparents versus parents raising children with behavior problems Journal of Family Issues 21(2), 262-270.
Richman GS, Hagopian, LP Harrison KA, Mann L, Birk D, Ormund A, Brierly-Bowers P. Assessing parental response patterns in the treatment of noncompliance in children. J Child Fam Behav Ther. 1994;16(1):29-42.
Richman G, Harrison K, Summers J. Assessing and modifying parent responses to their children's noncompliance: Error classification and direct instruction training procedure. Educ Train Child. 1995;18(2):105-116. | 