Robert L. Russell, PhD    

Pediatrics, Child Development Center

Title(s): Pediatric psychologist, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor, Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: Doctorate, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 1984; internship, Judge Baker Guidance Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Honors: Early Career Contribution Award, Society for Psychotherapy Research, 1989; Undergraduate Teaching Award, Loyola University Chicago, 1994; Certificate of Appreciation, Oak Park Community Mental Health Board, 1997; Finalist, Undergraduate Advisor Award, Loyola University, Chicago, 1999.

Research interests: Developmental psychopathology, developmental pragmatics, treatment processes and outcomes, language disorders and comorbidities.

Representative publications:

• Czogalik D, Russell RL. Interactional Structures of Therapist and Client Participation in Adult Psychotherapy: P‑technique and Chronography. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 1995; 63:28‑36.
• Russell RL, Orlinsky D. Psychotherapy Research in Historical Perspective: Some Implications for Mental Health Care Policy. Archives of General Psychiatry. 1996; 53:708-713.
• Russell RL, Shirk SR. Child Psychotherapy Process Research. In T.H. Ollendick & R.J. Prinz (Eds.) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. 1998; 20:93-124.
• Shirk S, Russell RL. Change Processes in Child Psychotherapy: Revitalizing Treatment and Research. New York: Guilford Press, 1996.
• Russell RL. Child Psychotherapy Process Research: Suggestions for the New Millennium. In S.W. Russ and T.H. Ollendick (eds.) Psychotherapies with Children and Families. New York: Plenum. 1999; 541-552. 
• Russell RL, Bryant FB. Minding our Therapeutic Rales: Treatments in Perspectivism. In L. Angus & J. McLeod (Eds.) The Handbook of Narrative and Psychotherapy: Practice, Rheory, Research. California: Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, Calif. 2004.

Current grants:

• Language Disorders and Psychiatric Outcomes, Children's Hospital and Health System Foundation, principal investigator.

Contact information: 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Wauwatosa, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 456-4430. Fax: (414) 456-6539. E-mail: rrussell@mcw.edu.