Edward H. Taylor, Ph.D.

Associate Professor School of Social Work, University of Minnesota

Degrees & Institutions Ph.D., Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1982. Emphasis on child development research. Twelve month child and family clinical internship completed after doctoral coursework. M.S.W., University of Denver, 1976. Clinical treatment specialization - Two 9 month field placements: (A) adolescent girls residential treatment program & (B) child/family mental health outpatient center. B.A., Psychology, Saint Edward's University (Austin, Texas), 1973. Senior clinical field placement - - rehabilitation center for children & adolescents with mental retardation

Advanced Clinical Training - Family and Child Advanced Therapy Training - Thalians Community Mental Health Center, Family and Child Training Program, Cedar Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA - Advanced training and supervision in structural and strategic family therapy methods - Race relations counselor and trainer --Department of Defense Race Relations Training Institute

Professional Research Interests - Early identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of serious mental disorders in children, teens, and young adults. - Relationships between childhood biological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems and the onset of severe mental disorders in late adolescence and young adulthood. - Discovery of improved methods for assessing, predicting, treating, and preventing violence to self, others, and property by youths with serious mental disorders. - The assessment of social intelligence/social competence in children and adolescents with serious mental, emotional, or behavioral problems.

Current Research - Exploration of social cognitive development, social intelligence/social competence, and behavioral symptoms of children/teens with psychotic disorders. - A quasi-experimental study of how violent mentally ill youths differ in development, cognitive processing, behavior, social perceptions, and symptoms within and across diagnostic categories, and how violent children differ from non-violent youths matched for diagnosis, illness severity, age, and gender. - A secondary data analysis of obstetrical, delivery, and developmental problems in identical twins with and without serious mental disorders.