Psychological Effects

Terror Warnings
Linda Aldoory - director, Center for Risk Communication Research; assistant professor of communication, University of Maryland
Expertise: public reactions to terror warnings; effective public communication of potential health and security risks; how public perceptions vary by race, gender and class

Credentials: recent research projects include a funded study on public perceptions of bioterrorism in news coverage and a grant to study audience reactions to conflicting media information about the safety of eating fish (work in this area won top research paper awards); created Center on Risk Communication Research as a unique vehicle to focus on the communication aspects of risk analysis; editor-elect, Journal of Public Relations Research; publications include "Making Health Communications Meaningful for Women: Factors that Influence Involvement and the Situational Theory of Publics" and a book, "Gender Challenge to Media: Diverse Voices from the Field"
Contacts: 301-405-6528 (office); 301-509-2617 (cell); riskcenter@umd.edu
Web Site: http://www.comm.riskcenter.umd.edu/about%20us.html ; http://www.comm.umd.edu/people/faculty/laldoory.html

Jonathan Kandell - head of counseling service, 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)
Web site: http://www.counseling.umd.edu/Staff/csstf.htm

Glenn Schiraldi - lecturer, 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); glenn@umd.edu
Web site: www.hhp.umd.edu/dpch/people/faculty/schiraldi_gr.html

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

Credentials: studied the effect of violence on children in Colombia; publications include "Family, Self and Psychotherapy: A Person-Centered Perspective"
Contact: 301-656-4367 (home office); ng3@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.hhp.umd.edu/FMST/Faculty/NGaylin.html

Charles Flatter - professor and chair, Department of Human Development; director, 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) Website
Contact: 301-405-2827 (office); 410-750-0899 (home); cf9@umail.umd.edu
Web site: http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/faculty2/Flatter/

William Strein - associate 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: http://www.education.umd.edu/EDCP/facultystaff/Strein/Strein.html

Susan Walker - assistant 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 Maryland families on parenting issues
Contact: 301-405-8339 (office); swalker1@umd.edu ; or Ellen Ternes, 301-405-4627
Web site: www.hhp.umd.edu/FMST/Faculty/SWalker.html