User:RBCanty/sandbox Carolyn Webster-Stratton

Carolyn H. Webster-Stratton, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. While at the university of Washington, she was the Director of the university's Parenting Clinic. She is the founder of the Incredible Years Series for Parents, Children, and Teachers—a program dedicated to advancing "the social and emotional behavior of children" and to "deliver evidence-based programs and materials that develop positive parent-teacher-child relationahips and assist in preventing and treating behavior problems and promoting social, emotional, and academic competence". This program was selected by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as a best practice for 3 to 10 year-olds in 1999. She is both a licensed clinical psychologist (since 1983) and a nurse practitioner (since 1974).

Dr. Webster-Stratton began her undergraduate career studying nursing at the University of Toronto. She later received Masters in pediatric nursing and in public health from Yale University and the Yale School of Medicine, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Washington.

Research
After completing her dissertation, Effectiveness of Videotape Modelling Parental Education, Dr. Webster-Stratton focused her research on the "development and parenting of children between the ages of 3 and 8 years". Her work shifted towards the "management and treatment of aggressive and defiant behaviour as well as the prevention of more serious antisocial behaviour". Throughout her career, she has "conducted numerous randomized control group studies to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention programs for promoting children’s social and emotional competence, school readiness skills and academic success and for preventing conduct problems in high risk populations". Dr. Webster-Stratton has also conducted research and developed programs for Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and ADHD. Most notably, Dr. Webster-Stratton developed the Incredible Years Series, which aim to prevent and treat behavioral problems in young children and are widely used in the US and at least 20 other countries.

Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)   , the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHF) , the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)  , and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).

Books
Dr. Webster-Stratton has written numerous books for parents (The Incredible Years: A trouble shooting guide for parents of children aged 2–8 years; Incredible Babies: A guide and journal of your baby’s first year; and Incredible Toddlers: A guide and journal of your toddler’s discoveries), teachers (Incredible Teachers: Nurturing Children’s Social, Emotional and Academic Competence), therapists (Collaborating with Parents to Reduce Children’s Behavior Problems), and children (Wally's Detective Books—aid in problem-solving, anger-management, and remediating learning problems).

Professional Roles
Dr. Webster-Stratton worked as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) in Toronto Alaska and later became the director of this PNP program in 1979. She founded the Parenting Clinic at the University of Washington in 1982 and retired from her position as director in 1990 to focus on research. Dr. Webster-Stratton was appointed as a professor at the University of Washington in 1989. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurses, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychology Association, and the Division of Clinical Child Psychology. She is currently the director the The Incredible Years.

Honors and Awards
Dr. Webster-Stratton has received numerous awards for her contributions to the field, including:
 * WCHEN Annual Award for Achievement for a New Researcher, 1980
 * Fellow in American Academy of Nurses
 * Outstanding Alumna, Yale University School of Nursing
 * Recipient National Mental Health Assoc. Lela Rowland Prevention Award for Excellence in Prevention, 1997
 * Elected member-at-large Division 53 Clinical Child Psychology, 2002-2004


 * Outstanding Alumna, School of Education, University of Washington
 * Dale Richmond/Justin Coleman Lectureship Award (AAP). 2013
 * Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, 2013
 * Yale School of Nursing – 90 Nurses for 90 Years, 2013


 * Distinguished Career Award, American Psychological Association, Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2018
 * Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, 1992–2003.