Handbook of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

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Elissa Jelalian, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from Miami University of Ohio and completed an internship in child psychology at the University of Rochester Medical School. She subsequently pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, where she remained in a faculty position. Dr. Jelalian is the recipient of grants from NHLBI and NIDDK evaluating weight control interventions for overweight adolescents. She has published in the areas of pediatric weight control, risk-taking and injury in adolescents, and nutrition in children with cystic fibrosis. Dr. Jelalian serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.

Ric G. Steele, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas, in the Clinical Child Psychology Program. He earned his doctorate from the University of Georgia in clinical psychology, with a specialization in clinical child psychology, completed a clinical internship at the University of Tennessee (Memphis) Professional Psychology Internship Consortium, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, TN). Dr. Steele is an associate editor for the Journal of Child and Family Studies, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, and Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. He has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles on topics in clinical child and pediatric psychology, and has recently co-edited the Handbook of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families and the Handbook of Evidence Based Therapies for Children and Adolescents. Dr. Steele's federally-funded research is concerned with evaluation of family-based approaches to child and adolescent weight management.