Terri E. Pease, PhD
4722 South Greenwood Avenue Apt. 2E
Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 624-5669
email tpease@dvmhpi.org

EDUCATION
Post graduate study
Neuropsychology Certificate Program
1996 - 1999

The Fielding Institute,
Santa Barbara, California and
New York, New York.

Ph.D.
1996

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Human Development and Family Studies [developmental psychology]

B.A.
1971

Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
Biology

Trauma Specialist (part time)
Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative. Chicago IL. Provide curriculum development, training, clinical and administrative consultation, and technical assistance to professional staff in community-based mental health and domestic violence programs. 2004-present.

Director of Program Development/National Trainer (1998-2005)
Director of Research /National Trainer SPIN USA, Inc. National Training Institute Carlisle, MA
Develop and oversee evaluation and research activities for the National Training Institute. Develop curricula and oversee training of practitioners and apprentice trainers to serve in programs in early care and education, child welfare and mental health services. 2005-present

Independent Trainer/Consultant
Consultation on program development, research and evaluation for early care and education, child welfare domestic violence, abuse and trauma in special environments including health care and managed care and residential services, 1995 – present

Appointed Faculty
National Academy for Equal Justice for People with Developmental Disabilities. Temple Institute on Disabilities, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Appointment April 2002 through October 2005.

Clinical Director, ServiceNet Inc., Northampton MA
Oversee clinically focused services in a residential and outreach developmental disabilities program . 2000-2003

Program Director. The Partnership to Prevent Domestic Violence, Victim Services/Safe Horizon, New York
Direct Robert Wood Johnson-funded project to create and evaluate a Center of Excellence for addressing domestic violence in health care settings. Developed physician-training programs, Created innovative CD-ROM case-based curriculum for DV screening in primary care settings. Coordinated services with managed care organizations. 1996-2000

Coordinator of Human Growth and Development Rockland ARC, Congers, New York.
Developed and administered programs and policies for developmentally disabled or brain injured consumers of day treatment, addressed issues of sexual abuse and assault prevention, designed and implemented interventions, administrative, staff training and consultation responsibilities. 1993-1996

Clinical Coordinator Shelter Our Sisters, Hackensack, New Jersey.
Provided clinical services, staff supervision, training, and community consultation for a 28-bed shelter for battered women and their children. 1991 - 1993

Independent Consultant Major contracts: NOVA - Network of Victim Assistance (Doylestown, PA). Clinical supervision and consulting (4 years); Bucks County (PA) Department of Children and Youth Services. Interviewing and assessment of young children in cases of suspected sexual abuse, and offering expert testimony in family and civil court (3 years). 1989 - 1992

Clinical Trainer, Acting Clinical Director Women Organized Against Rape, Philadelphia, PA.
Developed and presented training on clinical issues associated with sexual abuse and assault. 1989

Therapist C.A.U.S.E.S. Child Abuse Unit, Illinois Masonic Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
Conducted psychotherapy with preschool, latency-aged and adolescent survivors of incest and with adult male perpetrators. Participated in clinical training of professional and paraprofessional staff in programs throughout the Midwest. 1980 - 1983

University Professor of Psychology Governors State University, University Park, Illinois (Tenure awarded 1984). Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, counseling, school counseling, school psychology programs. Participated in faculty governance. 1978 - 1989

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Courses: Advanced Individual Therapy Techniques; Beginning Counseling Skills; Research Literature in Counseling and Psychotherapy; Seminar on Psychodynamic Approaches; Child Therapy Techniques.
Undergraduate Courses: Child Development, Abnormal Psychology; Personality Theories; Interpersonal Growth Workshops; Theories and Treatment of Emotional Disturbance; Psychosocial Aspects of Aging; Institution and Experience of Motherhood.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AWARDS, GRANTS, PUBLICATIONS
Building on a Firm Foundation: Turning Assessments into Strengths-Based Developmental Plans
NH Association for Infant Mental Health. North Conway, NH, September, 2005.
Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health (with Carole Warshaw, M.D)
Two-Day training, Cornell Inteventions, Chicago, August, 2005
Pease, T., Colpa, A., Proulx, G.,and Boss, J. (2004). Using Technology in Consultation:
Enhancing Relationships. Zero To Three. Volume 24, No 6., 20-25
Twenty five Years After Brown v. Board of Education: Where Are We Now?
Panel Discussion, Chicago Associate of Black Psychologists. February 2004.
Why Black Boys Resist Today’s Schools
The Forum for Educational Excellence, Chicago, January, 2004
Understanding Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood—the link to educational success.
Invited Address. Connecticut Early Head Start Association. October, 2003.
Helping Hurt People: Treatment strategies for adult trauma victims with cognitive disabilities.
New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault Annual Conference. May 2003.
Understanding Infant Mental Health
Region I Early Head Start Annual Conference. Marlboro Massachusetts
April, 2003.
Introducing SPIN Methods in Programs Serving Children and Families in the United States
2002 International Congress on SPIN Video Home Training and Video Interaction Guidance, November, 2002, Ede Netherlands.

Mental Health Treatment Strategies for Victims of Domestic Violence with Cognitive Disabilities. One-day workshop. Loraine County Safe Harbor and Lorain County Board of MRDD, Elyria OH, April 2002
Providing Shelter Services to Women with Mental Illness. Southeastern Regional Conference on Domestic Violence, Savannah, GA, October 2001
Crime Victims with Cognitive Disabilities. Crime Victims Services Conference. Delaware Criminal Justice Council, Wilmington DE October, 2001.
Responding to Trauma in the lives of people with Cognitive Disabilities. The ARC of North and South Carolina. 2001 Annual Convention, Myrtle Beach, SC September, 2001
Domestic violence as a women's health issue- panel discussion, Women's Health Issues 11 (4) (2001) pp. 387-390.
Domestic Violence and Managed Care—Lessons from the Partnership to Prevent Domestic Violence Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on Quality Health Care for Women in
the United States and the United Kingdom. The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health and The Commonwealth Fund, Washington, DC, September 2000.
Domestic Violence and Health Care Advocate Award. National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence, San Francisco. September 2000.
Creating Collaborations to Serve Victims of Domestic Violence with Cognitive Disabilities. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 2000 National Conference, August 2000
Introducing Domestic Violence Services into Primary Health Care Family Violence Conference. Yale University Department of Family Medicine, New Haven, CT. May 12, 2000.
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Adults with Developmental Disabilities. In-service training. Association for Help of Retarded Children, New York, NY. November 1999.
Helping Hurt People Get Better: Responding to Trauma in Adults with Developmental Disabilities. Presentation at TASH convention. Chicago. December 1999.
Introducing Services for Victims of Violence into Prenatal Care. National Conference on Violence and Reproductive Health. Centers for Disease Control. Atlanta, June 14, 1999
Domestic Violence Intervention and Treatment. Grand Rounds, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center Department of Family Practice, April 1998 and April, 1999.
Protecting People with Mental Retardation invited presentation at Beyond Access Symposium of the Temple University Institute on Disabilities, October 29, 1998.
Domestic Violence Interventions in Managed Care. Invited presentation at Medi-Cal Managed Care Domestic Violence Project Strategy Meeting. San Francisco Health Plan. October 26, 1998
Domestic Violence Issues In Mental Health Care. Social Work Grand Rounds. New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. October 1, 1997.
Mental Health and Mental Illness in the Adult with Cognitive Disabilities. St. Vincent's Hospital [Westchester] Continuing Day Treatment Program, Harrison, New York. July-August, 1997.
Your Safety. . . Your Rights, [with Beverly Frantz] Personal safety and abuse-prevention education program for people with disabilities. (Training manual and close-captioned videotape) 1996.
Early intervention with children growing up in violent environments. Rockland County Department of Mental Health Child and Adolescent Workgroup Conference: Generations of Violence, Breaking the Cycle. May 1995.
Growing up scared-The impact of domestic violence on child development . Rockland County Department of Mental Health Child and Adolescent Workgroup Conference: The Many Faces of Violence. April 1994.
Domestic violence and sexual abuse." Invited Workshop at Northeast Regional Conference VOICES Victims of Incest Conference, April 1993.
"The battered woman and her partner” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Bergen Pines County Hospital, March 1992.
Pease Terri, and Albini, T. Normal and Pathological Dissociations in Young Children. Dissociation 2, September 1989.
Albini, T. and (Pease) Schwartz, T. (1985, October). Normal and Pathological Dissociations in Young Children. Paper presented at Second International Conference on Multiple Personality and Dissociative Disorders, Chicago.
Developed proposal and directed three related Title XX Training Grants administered by Illinois Department of Public Aid. Funded at $750,000 over three years.

References available on request