Social Competence in Children (PDF)

Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Ph.D., received her doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1990. She completed and internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school and received a post-doctoral neuroscience fellowship at MGH from NIH to study neuropsychological and brain morphology in children with ADHD. Her dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from the Orton Dyslexia Society. She has authored four books and numerous articles and continues her research interests in the areas of ADHD and brain morphology using 3-dimensional MRI scans. She is currently working on research in ADHD, 18q- syndrome, and nonverbal learning disabilities. With Dr. Plizska at UTHSCSA, Margaret was awarded a NIH grant to study the effects of stimulant medication on neuropsychological functioning. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman and her students have developed a social competence intervention that has been successfully piloted at UT. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was recently awarded the 1999 Early Career Contributions award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. She has published more than 30 articles, 40 chapters and three books. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman is currently a professor at Michigan State University with a joint appointment in Psychology and Psychiatry.

From the reviews:

"The book … provides an empirically based review of the typical development of social competence, followed by a detailed review of patterns of social deficits, their interventions, and treatments. … an excellent, up-to-date overview of the literature on the development of social competence in children that would be of interest to both clinicians and researchers in the field. … Thus, Semrud-Clikeman has created a book that has the potential to become an essential resource for school psychologists and other educational and mental health professionals." (Victoria Talwar and Sarah-Jane Renaud, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (21), 2008)