Contact: Judy Boler, Phone 541-485-2711
WASHINGTON, DC – OSLC Senior Scientist Patti Chamberlain will be an invited speaker tomorrow at the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) bi-yearly gathering of representatives from the major national patient and family advocacy groups with interests in mental health and the prevention and treatment of mental disorder and related problems. The meeting is being convened by Dr. Thomas Insel, the Director of NIMH, and will focus on presentations of ongoing research and exciting and promising new research findings relevant to mental health. Dr. Chamberlain’s address will be entitled “Effective Interventions in Foster Care”. Dr. Chamberlain has led a research group that has done pioneering work in the development of therapeutic foster care interventions over the past 25 years. Her internationally known program, Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, has been shown to be an efficacious intervention in a number of scientifically rigorous studies, and she is currently one of the lead investigators of a National Institute on Drug Abuse-supported research center dedicated to developing effective and feasible parenting interventions for children and their families in the child welfare system.