Indian Country
Child Trauma Center

 

Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD - an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Pediatrics, OUHSC. Dr. BigFoot is the Co-Director of the Indian Country Child Trauma Center that is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. BigFoot is a doctoral-level counseling psychologist and provides consultation, training, and technical assistance to tribal, state, and federal agencies; mental health and family service agencies; and Indian Head Start programs in 22 states. She is recognized for her efforts to bring traditional Indian practices and beliefs into the formal teaching and instruction of Indian people and professionals working with Indian populations. Dr. BigFoot developed an American Indian parent training program which builds on the strengths of Indian parents, families, and communities to parent children and has co-authored, “Helping Indian Parents Discipline their Children,” a brochure distributed by the Prevent Child Abuse American that is being used by a number of tribes in their child abuse prevention and treatment programs.

Lorena Burris, PhD - a licensed psychologist, is a Research Associate at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dr. Burris provides clinical services in the treatment of adolescent sex offenders and children with sexual behavior problems. Dr. Burris is a member of the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma.

Barbara Bonner, PhD - a Clinical Child Psychologist, is a Professor and the CMRI/Jean Gumerson Endowed Chair, Director of the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN), and Associate Director of the Child Study Center (CSC) in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Bonner is the Co-Director of ICCTC and her clinical and research interests include the assessment and treatment of abused children, treatment outcome and program effectiveness, prevention of child fatalities, and treatment of children and adolescents with inappropriate or illegal sexual behavior.
Robin Gurwitch, PhD - a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist. Dr. Gurwitch is the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Traumatic Stress Specialist for ICCTC. Dr. Gurwitch specializes in work with children, particularly those considered at-risk. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Dr. Gurwitch has devoted much time to understanding the impact of trauma and disaster on children. She has been involved work with the Oklahoma National Memorial. She has served on State and national committees and task forces focusing on trauma/disaster, terrorism, and violence. Dr. Gurwitch has co-authored a treatment manual for use with young children after a trauma and helped the American Red Cross develop materials related to terrorism for use in schools.

Jane Silovsky, PhD - a Clinical Child Psychologist, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Silovsky is the specialist of Children with Sexual Behavior Problems and Traumatic Stress within ICCTC. Since 1997, she has been the Director of the Children with Sexual Behavior Problems program, an assessment, treatment, and research program for preschool and school age children with sexual behavior problems. Dr. Silovsky’s research is in the area of intervention outcome and program evaluation of services for children affected by child maltreatment. One of her major research interest is sexual behavior problems of young children.

Beverly Funderburk, PhD - an assistant professor at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Funderburk is a Parent-Child Interaction Therapy specialist for ICCTC. She conducts treatment outcome research and clinical training in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, a empirically-supported parent training approach designed for young children with behavior problems or a history of family disruptions.



Susan R. Schmidt, PhD – a psychologist, is an Assistant Professor at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Her clinical and research interests include interventions for trauma-exposed children, treatment outcome and program effectiveness, and treatment of adolescents with inappropriate or illegal sexual behavior. She currently directs the Child Trauma Services Program, an assessment, treatment, and research program for children exposed to domestic violence and their non-offending caregivers.
 
 
   
 

Indian Country Child Trauma Center
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
Native American Programs
PO Box 26901 - OUCP, 3B 3406
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
(405) 271-8858
(405) 271-2931 Fax