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About Dr.
Lenore Terr |
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Lenore
C. Terr, M.D. has been studying the psychology of normal and disordered
children her entire medical career. Starting as an academic psychiatrist
at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, during which
time she published two pioneering studies on "battered children,"
she then went on to practice psychiatry in San Francisco and to
teach at UCSF. Her long-term field studies of the kidnapped children
of Chowchilla, California (and a comparison group of 25 children
100 miles to the south) set the standards for what is now accepted
as childhood PTSD. |
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Dr. Lenore Terr is an avid reader, moviegoer, and watcher of politics,
all of which show up in her writing and speaking. She holds the
highest research awards in American psychiatry and was given a prize
for child advocacy by the American Psychological Association. Donna
Shalala, then the U.S. Director of Health and Human Services named
her in 1996, "a hero of medicine." She is listed in "Who's
Who" and "America's Best Doctors." Dr. Lenore Terr
has written several books including Too
Scared to Cry, Unchained
Memories, and Beyond
Love and Work. Her newest book, released in October 2007, is
Magical
Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around. |
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Lenore sees both adults and children for assessment and treatment.
While sometimes she works with an entire family as a unit, she
usually works with individuals. She sees children as yound as
two and adults as old as midlife. "Everyone is in some stage
of development," she says with a smile. "If they need
medicine, I can prescribe it. I specialize, however, in psychotherapy.
But whatever I do, it always comes with some playfulness and humor."
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