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Peter Sturmey (born in June of 1959) is a psychologist focusing mainly on people with developmental disabilities. Pr. Sturmey is best known for his research and publications on behavioral approaches to case formulation, developmental disabilities , and behavior analysis. He has published over 8000 citations, and 239 publications. He holds the position of Professor in Liverpool University.

Biography
Dr. Sturmey gained his PhD in psychology at the University of Liverpool, and then taught at the University of South West (Plymouth) and the University of Birmingham (both universities are located in the United Kingdom). Following that Dr. Sturmey worked at the Texas Department of Mental Retardation as a chief psychologist for 10 years, from 1990 to 2000, during a federal class action law suit. During those 10 years he worked at Abilene and then the San Antonio State School as a supervisor for behavioral services and a master level psychologist who provided support plans for severe behavioral and restrain programs. Currently Dr. Sturmey works for Queens College in New York as a Professor in Psychology.

Research
Dr. Peter Sturmey's research mainly focuses on people with developmental disabilities. He contributed greatly to the research of Autism and other disorders that impact children and adults alike. He published many books and research papers, some of which go into teaching parents to help their children, with Autism, learn basic tasks such as hygiene and behavior.

Papers

 * Sarokoff, R. A., & Sturmey, P. (2004). The effects of behavioral skills training on staff implementation of discrete-trial teaching. Journal of applied behavior analysis, 37(4), 535–538. https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.2004.37-535
 * Sturmey, P., Didden, R., Korzilius, H., & Peters-Scheffer, N. (2010, April 24). A meta-analytic study on the effectiveness of comprehensive ABA-based early intervention programs for children with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
 * Sturmey, P., & Ward-Horner, J. (2012). Component analysis of behavior skills training ... - wiley online library. wiley online library. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bin.1339
 * Lafasakis, M., & Sturmey, P. (2007). Training parent implementation of discrete-trial teaching: Effects on generalization of parent teaching and child correct responding. Journal of applied behavior analysis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078576/

Books

 * Sturmey, P. (2004). Functional Analysis in clinical psychology. TPB.