Psychological Impacts

Glenn Schiraldi - instructor of public and community health, University of Maryland
Expertise: post traumatic stress; stress management

Credentials: wrote The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Source Book, taught stress management to military personnel at the Pentagon
Contact: 301-405-2518 (office); 301 604 7980 (home); gs6@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.hhp.umd.edu/dpch/people/faculty/schiraldi_gr.html

Ned Gaylin - professor of family studies and clinical psychologist, University of Maryland
Expertise: effects of violence on children

Credentials: director, University of Maryland Family Therapy Training Program; studied the effect of violence on children in Colombia
Contact: 301-405-4006 (office); 301-656-4367 (home office); ng3@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.hhp.umd.edu/FMST/Faculty/NGaylin.html

Jonathan Kandell - head of counseling services for the University of Maryland
Expertise: psychological reactions to trauma

Credentials: practicing clinical psychologist; coordinated University of Maryland counseling efforts after September 11; assistant director, University of Maryland Counseling Center
Contact: 301-314-7658 (office); jkandell@accmail.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Website: http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments/Counseling/

Susan Walker - professor of family studies, University of Maryland; state family life specialist, Maryland Cooperative Extension
Expertise: child and family issues; at-risk families

Credentials: works with families throughout the state of Maryland on parenting issues
Contact: 301-405-8339 (office); sw141@umail.umd.edu; or Ellen Ternes, 301-405-4627, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.hhp.umd.edu/FMST/Faculty/SWalker.html

Charles Flatter - professor and chair, Department of Human Development/Institute for Child Study, University of Maryland
Expertise: answering children's questions about war; dealing with children's fears and anxieties; parenting and grand-parenting skills

Credentials: columnist for Sesame Street Parents Magazine; Ask the Expert for the Children's Television Workshop (public broadcasting)
Contact: 301-405-2827 (office); 410-750-0899 (home); cf9@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty2/Flatter/

William (Bill) Strein - professor, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland
Expertise: research on dealing with stress in children; counseling children; examining children's self-perceptions of confidence and insecurities; social-emotional learning in K-12 kids

Credentials: director of School Psychology Program; conducted "teach-in" sessions in for university after 9-11
Contact: 301-405-2869 (office); 301-593-1092 (home); ws30@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.education.umd.edu/EDCP/facultystaff/Strein.html

Andrew Wolvin - professor of communication, University of Maryland
Expertise: communication management and education; listening behavior

Credentials: author or co-author of several books, including The Public Speaker/The Public Listener, Listening and Communicating: A Social Career Focus
Contact: 301-405-6521 (office); 301-299-3195 (home); awolvin@deans.umd.edu
Web site: www.wam.umd.edu/~awolvin/