CURRICULUM VITAE
Margaret O'Connor Griffiths, Ph.D.
EDUCATION:
Baccalaureate degree: 1966 B.A., University of Minnesota
Graduate degree: 1974 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology from University of Texas at Austin
Internship: 1970 Judge Baker Guidance Center, Boston, Mass
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1981-2007
Senior Psychologist, Department of Child Psychiatry, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. Co-Director, School Problems Clinic; 1985 to 2007, Steering Committee of Cook County Hospital Association of Psychologists, 1985-86, 1990-91 and Chair, Education committee 1998-2011. Teaching responsibilities included case consultation to staff: conducting seminars on assessment and treatment of emotionally disturbed children, training pediatrics residents in child development, parent training learning problems, ADHD, and assessment of atypical emotional development. Clinical duties included assessment, treatment and liaison in School Problems Clinic and Child Psychiatry Clinic.
1981-2020
Private Practice of Clinical Psychology---Lincoln Park Neighborhood, Chicago, IL
2003-2007
Training coordinator in Child Division pre-doctoral externship for clinical psychology; duties included program supervision, case supervision, and coordination of lecture series
1998-2007
Appointed as Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Rush Medical College
1984-1998
Appointment as Assistant Professor in Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Medical School
1980-81
Consultant (part-time), Division of Child Psychiatry, Children's Memorial Hospital
Duties included supervision of interns on clinical activities and teaching of seminar on projective techniques.
1980-81
Core faculty, Illinois School of Professional Psychology (half-time). Duties included teaching and supervision at the post-graduate level in the child clinical/child development area. Courses taught included: Child Development and Psychopathology, Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children, Assessment of Intellectual Functioning. Supervision of practicum students in group and individual modalities
1975-80
Staff Psychologist, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Duties included psychotherapy, diagnostic testing and interviewing for disturbed children and their families; conducted individual, group and family therapy. Administered multi-disciplinary team, which provided intensive milieu treatment to preadolescent girls and latency boys. Supervised interns and taught clinical seminars. Conducted research within the clinic.
1976-91
Appointment as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School.
1976-78
Acting Director of Training, Division of Child Psychiatry, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Major role as administrator of APA-approved predoctoral internship program (3 full-time interns). Other trainees included part-time interns and practicum students from Northwestern University and summer clerks from Chicago universities. Duties included coordination of supervision, seminars, and evaluation of interns, as well as direct supervision and teaching. Initiated and wrote a grant submitted in September 1977 for N1MH training funds.
1973-75
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky in child clinical. Courses taught include Psycho-logical Testing (senior level), Child Clinical Psychology (graduate), Projective Techniques in Personality Assessment (graduate), Introductory Psychology (undergraduate), and Introduction to Clinical Psychology (graduate). Supervised individual psychotherapy. Member, dissertation committee.
Taught informal seminar in child treatment. Chair, Colloquium Committee, participant in Developmental Psychology Research Seminar.
1971-73
Staff clinical psychologist at Student Health Center, University of Texas. Carried caseload of individual clients, representing various nosologically groups. Group co-therapist.
1972-73
Taught assessment practicum to first-year graduate students, University of Texas.
1971-72
Psychometrist for Department of Special Education, Austin Independent School District. Evaluated school age children for placement in special programs by means of interviews, and personality, intelligence, and achievement testing.
AWARDS & HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa, Mortarboard, Exchange student to United Arab Republic, N.D.E.A. Fellow, passed written comprehensives with Distinction.
LICENSURE
Licensed Illinois Psychologist - Certificate #71-0002009 - Issued July 21, 1976
National Register for Mental Health Service Providers, 1979 to.1998
PRESENTATIONS
''Imitation of Inappropriately Sex-Type Play in Young Children" with Donald Sachs, Unpublished Manuscript, University of Texas, read at Southwestern Psychological Association, St. Louis, Missouri, 1969.
''Degree of Gender Role Development and Anxiety as a Response to Anticipated Gender inappropriate Play in Young Children," Unpublished Manuscript University of Texas, read at Southeastern Psychological Association, Hollywood, Florida, 1974.
"Decentration Revisited: The Relationship of Spatial and Conceptual Role-Taking in Young Children," Presented at Society for Research in Child Development, biennial meeting, Denver, 1975.
DISSERTATION
''The Relationship of Dependency and Social Behavior to Role Taking Skills in Young Children," Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas, 1974.
PUBLICATIONS
"The Nursery School Environment," Developmental Psychology. 11, 1975, 556-561.
"Role-Taking and Social Orientation in Young Children," Journal of Psychology. 94, 1976, 135-137.
"The Effect of Role-Taking Training on Role- Taking and Social Behavior in Young Children," Social Behavior and Personality, 5, (1), 1977, 1-11.
"The Relationship of Spatial and Conceptual Role-Taking in Young Children," Journal of Genetic Psychology, 131, 1977, 319-320.
''Prosocial Behavior and Psychopathology in Emotionally Disturbed Boys," with S.S. Dollinger, S. Kennedy, and P. Pelletier-Smetko, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 49, 1979, 301-310.
''Understanding Motivations Behind Prosocial Acts: A Developmental Analysis," with J. Cuevas and
S. Dollinger, Journal of Genetic Psychology, 139 1981,267-276.
"Relationship of Children's Prosocial Behavior to Social Responsibility, Prosocial Reasoning and Personality," with J. Cuevas. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1982 140, 33-45
"Parenting with a Psychological Perspective: How Research and Experience Can Enrich the Parenting Experience." 2023. Authority Publishing, Chicago.
GRANTS
Author and Principal Investigator, ''Role Taking Training in Preschoolers," University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Grant #7500053, $1450.
Author, "Altruism and Adjustment in Preadolescent Boys," Project No. 1R03MH, 30931-81 MSM, October 1977. Approved, not funded.
Author, NIMH Training Grant for Clinical Psychology Internship, Children's Memorial Hospital, 1977-78, resubmitted in 1979 as MH15997-0l and funded as a 3-year grant for $45,000.
CONSULTANTSHIPS
Member, North Central Accreditation Team, to evaluate Mather High School, Special Education Branch, May 18-20, 1977.
"A Cognitive-Communication Model of Psychotherapy with Children," in-service training presentation to LaSalle County Community Mental Health Center, October 4, 1979.
Developmental and School Psychology Review Course, Illinois Institute of Professional Psychology, 1980, 1981, 1982. Ridgeway Hospital of Chicago, Illinois, 1981.
"Attention Deficit Disorder," with Gunnbjorg Lavoll, M.D. Course taught at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, Illinois, April• May 1982.
EDITORIAL CONSULTATION
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977-78.
Child Development, .1979.
PUBLIC SERVICE PRESENTATIONS
Parents and Teachers' Meeting, Trinity Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois February 19, 1979
Presentations to Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois; May 16, 1977; July 14, 1977; March 4 & 11, 1979; April 4, 1980; October 1998; December 1998.
Presentation to Near North Unitarian Fellowship, May 1979
''Participant in panel sponsored by Northwestern University Service Board, ''Parenting Is Not Child's Play" October 25, 1979.
Presentation to Near North Montessori School, December 4, 1979. Presentation to Parents Without Partners, April 9, 1980.
Child Development Series: Family Focus, Chicago, April 1986.
"Self-Esteem and the School Age Child" Presented to Schools Forum, Lincoln Park Conservation Association, October 17, 1986.
"Choosing the Right School for Your Child" Presentation to Schools Forum, Lincoln Park Conservation Association, October 26, 1988, and November 7, 1989.
"Choosing the Right Preschool for your Child," Family Focus/Lincoln Park, February 10, 1989. "Overview of Parenting Techniques" Family Focus/ Lincoln Park May 6 & 13, 1989.
"Myths & Misconceptions about Hyperactivity" Lecture presented to Illinois Association for Hyperactivity & Attention Deficit Disorders, September 1989.
"Talking About ADHD to Your Hyperactive Child: The Therapeutic Effects of Honest Communication'' Lecture presented to Illinois Association fur Hyperactivity & Attention Deficit Disorder, March 1990.
"Effective Education fur the ADD Child," Moderator of panel presentation to Chicago North Chapter of CH.A.D.D., October 7, 1991.
COLLOQUIA
"Prosocial Thinking and Prosocial Actions of Children," Southern Illinois University, Department of Psychology, December 3, 1978.
"Communication with the Emotionally Disturbed Child: A Developmental Approach" University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Department of Psychology, January 25, 1980.
''Infantile Autism," presented to Pediatric Grand Rounds, Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL, March 18, 1980. -
''Tasks for Emotional Development," Inservice training for this projective technique, Cook County Hospital, December 16, 1981.
"Communicating Therapeutically with the School Age Child: A Cognitive Developmental Approach" Departmental presentation, Psychiatry, Cook County Hospital, January 6, 1982.
''Research Issues in Prosocial Behavior of Clinic and Non-Clinic Children." Research presentation to
Northwestern University Medical School, Department of Psychology, March 12, 1982
"The Impossible (Day) dreamer: Attention Deficit Disorder Without Hyperactivity." Presentation to Department of Psychiatry, Cook County Hospital with Constance Blade, M.D., June 12, 1985.
"Assessment & Management of the Hyperactive Child," Presentation to CCR Pediatric Continuing Education Conference, March 1988.
''Learning Disabilities," Lecture in Child Development series for I.S.P.I. Psychiatry Residents, April 1, 1988.
"Behavioral Treatment for the ADHD Child,'' Grand Rounds for combined Family Practice & Pediatrics, Swedish America Hospital, Rockford, IL April 1988.
"Diagnosis & Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, post graduate program. October 26, 1988.
''Learning Disabilities," guest lecturer to Dept. of Occupational Therapy, Rush Medical School. February 7, 1989.
Guest Lecturer: Illinois State Psychiatric Institute "Communicating Therapeutically with the· Resistant Child,'' April 5, 1989.
''Diagnosis & Treatment of the ADHD Child,'' with Z. Lillian, M.D., Grand Rounds presentation to Dept. of Family Practice at Cook County Hospital, July 23, 1990.
''The Pediatrician's Rote in Diagnosis and Treatment of the Learning-Disabled Child", with Z. Lillian, M.D., Grand Rounds Presentation to Department of Pediatrics, Ravenswood Hospital, October 9, 1990.
''Managing the Child with ADHD and/or Learning Problems in the Medical Center,'' at Conference Commemorating the 15th Anniversary of CCH Dept. of Psychiatry, with Mark Stein, Ph.D., April 19, 1991.
''Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD from the Child's Point of View,'' in-service workshop to staff and students at DePaul University Community Mental Health Center, May 6, 1991.
''Diagnosis and Treatment of the ADHD Child: The Role of the School," in-service lecture presented to Section of School Psychologists at Annual Meeting, Chicago Board of Education, March 20, 1992.
''Differential Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Problems," with School Problems Clinic Staff: Grand Rounds. Presentation to Dept. of Pediatrics, Cook County Hospital, May 26, 1992.
''Effective Education for the Kindergarten Child," in-service presentation with Cook County Hospital staff to Chicago Board of Education teachers, October 5-6, 1992.
''Diagnosis and Treatment of the ADHD Child," Inservice presentation to Bradley Outpatient Center staff, Gurnee, IL, April 30, 1993.
"Case Management and School Consultation for ADHD," in-service for staff and students at Allendale School, Bradley Counseling Center, Lake Villa, IL March 1994.
"New Directions in Attention Deficit Disorder" address delivered to in-service program for school psychologists for the Chicago Board of Education, Dept. of Special Education, March 3, 1995.
"Issues in Diagnosis & Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," Pediatric Grand Rounds, Cook County Hospital, March 7, 1997.
"The Oppositional Child, Clinical Case Conference, Department of Psychiatry, JSHCC, April 2003.
"Psychological Testing: What Pediatricians Need to Know," Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, JSHCC, April 2003
'"The Silent Child: Treating the Elective Mute," Clinical Case Conference, Department of Psychiatry, JSHCC, May 2005.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Board of Directors, Sheffield Neighborhood Association, 1985 to 1991, Chair, Schools Committee 1985-1989.
Board of Directors, Mary Crane Center, non-profit, United Way funded agency providing toddler and preschool, early childhood education, 2000 to present
Vice-President, 2005 to 2023. President, 2015 to 2017.
Chair. Program committee, Mary Crane Center 2001 to 2004
Chair, Resource Development and Public Relations Committee, Mary Crane Center 2005 to 2020
Co-Chair, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Fourth Lights Ministry 2002, Social Co-Chair, 1999; Program co-chair, 2000.
Steering Committee, member, Fourth Dimension Ministry, Fourth Presbyterian Church, 2004 to present
Middle East Task Force, Chicago Presbytery, 2003 to present. Moderator 2010-2012,
Ecumenical and Inter-religious Work Group, Chicago Presbytery, 2005 to 2010
Israel/Palestine Mission Network, Presbyterian Church USA, 2006 to present
Bright Stars of Bethlehem Ambassador, Volunteer with Christmas Lutheran Church,
Bethlehem, Palestine 2013-present
Seraj Library Project-Board Member 2008 to present; Benefit Chair, 2022
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Consultation, treatment, assessment (adult and child), 1979 to 2020
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Psychological Association 1972 to 2006
Illinois Psychological Association 1972 to 2005
Illinois Association for Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorders. Founder and Chapter President, Chicago North Chapter, 1989. Professional advisor, 1990 to 1993.
Illinois State Council for ADD Children. Chair, Policy, and Guideline Development Committee (to
work with Illinois State Board of Education), 1992.