Speaker
Professor William Pelham
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology at San Diego State University (SDSU)
Biography
Dr. Pelham is a child/adolescent clinical psychologist and studies the etiology, prevention, and treatment of substance use and externalizing spectrum psychopathology (e.g., aggression, delinquency, ADHD). He is particularly interested in the role of *family processes* in the origin and maintenance of these behaviors because our most potent clinical interventions target family-based mechanisms of change. The goal of Dr. Pelham’s current research program is to rethink how we study family processes in etiological research so that its outputs have greater clinical relevance. He is pursuing this goal through both by developing theory and conducting empirical investigations.