James Black Author

Wendy Haight is Professor and Gamble-Skogmo Chair of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Prior to that she was professor of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign . She received her BA in Psychology from Reed College in 1980. She studied cultural developmental psychology at the University of Chicago where she earned her PhD in 1989. Her research focuses on socialization practices with vulnerable children in diverse cultural communities. Teresa Ostler is an professor of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign where she joined the faculty in 2003. Prior to this, she was on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her BA and PhD in psychology from University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on parent-child attachment relationships, parents with major mental illness and their children, and children in foster care. James Black is a psychiatrist at Regions Hospital in St Paul, Minnesota. He received his BA in Mathematics and Psychology from Reed College in 1980, and his MD and PhD in neuroscience from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991. He has extensive clinical experience including in rural areas of Illinois. His research interests include substance misuse and neuroplasticity. Linda Kingery is an Advanced Child Protection Specialist for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. She received her BSW from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater in 1987, and her MSW from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Born and raised in rural Illinois, she has over 20 years of professional experience with families involved with substance misuse. Her research interests focus on families and substance misuse.