Assistant Professor in the Practice of Psychology

Clinical Science

Office: 307B Hobbs
Phone: 615-322-8447
Fax: 615-343-9494
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Curriculum Vitae

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Degrees

• (Bowling Green State University; Internship training at Harvard Medical School, 1989)

Research Area

• Sexual Abuse

Current Research

• Principal Investigator with Dr. Maureen Sanger of Our Kids Center; Peabody College grant entitled: Caregiver Support of Children Alleging Sexual Abuse: Does a Paraprofessional Support Model Affect Primary caregiver Effectiveness?
• Program Evaluator for the Mother's Advocate Intervention Program. Grant funded through the National Children's Advocacy Center, Huntsville, Alabama. This is a multi-site, Advocacy Center based program designed to support non-offending mothers - Responsibilities: design outcome measures, train sites to collect data, analyze results.

Current Courses

• Assistant Clinical Professor, Peabody College.

Representative Publications

• van Eys, PP. (2002). Tennessee Caring for Kids: A report from the Children's Health Initiative 2002. TennCare Bureau, Authorization No. 318065; (October).
• van Eys, P.P. & Dodge, K.A. (1999). Closing the Gaps: Developmental Psychopathology as a Training Model for Clinical Psychology. Special Issue: Journal of Clinical Child Psychology On the Importance of Incorporating Developmental Theory into Clinical Child Training, 28 (4), 467-475.
• van Eys, P.P. (1997). Group Treatment Issues for Prepubescent Boys with Sexually Aggressive Behavior: Clinical Considerations and Proposed Treatment Techniques. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 4 (2).
• van Eys, P.P. (1996). Sexual Abuse: The Hidden Shame. Caregiving, April-May-June.
• McKeever, W.F., Seitz, K.S., Krutsch, A.J. & van Eys, P.L.(1995). On language laterality in normal dextrals and sinistrals: results from the Bilateral Object Naming Latency Task. Neuropsychologia 33(12), 1627-1635.
• van Eys, P.P. (1993). Psychological assessment of sexually abused children. In the handbook for the National Training Program on Effective Treatment Approaches (NTPETA) in Child Sexual Abuse. Unpublished material. Huntsville, AL.
• van Eys, P.P. (1993). Expert witness role-play script. In the NTPETA handbook. Unpublished material. Huntsville, AL.
• van Eys, P.P (1990). Children with diabetic siblings: A family systems perspective. Dissertation Abstracts.
• McKeever, W.F. & van Eys, P.P. (1989). Inverted handwriting posture is related to familial sinistrality incidence. Cortex 25: 581-589.
• van Eys, P.P. & McKeever, W.F. (1988). Subject knowledge of the experimenter's interest in handedness, familial sinistrality variables and laterality test outcomes. Brain and Cognition 7, 324-334.
• McKeever, W.F. & van Eys, P.P.(1986). Unequivocal evidence that fixation control digits can influence field asymmetries. Brain and Cognition 5,443-451.

Biography

Dr. van Eys has a joint appointment in Psychology and Human Development and Psychiatry. In Psychology, she is the clinical training professor of the graduate students in the clinical doctoral program, teaching courses in Intervention, Assessment, Ethics, and administrating the practicum program. In Psychiatry, Dr. van Eys is the clinical director of the Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody, a center that focuses on the complex mental health needs of children in or at risk of state custody. Clincial interests include a broad range of child and adolescent psychopatholgy with a particular interest in the area of child maltreatment and childhood response to trauma. Another growing area of interest is in the area of mental health and behavioral problems stemming from attachment disruptions in children and adolescents. Dr. van Eys also has interestes in the area of public policy for child mental health and an understanding of the systems issues in this area, as she was contracted to the State of Tennessee in 2001-2003 where she worked on issues of policy for children's mental health on the Tennessee Children's Health Initiative. Although not a research professor, Dr. van Eys is involved in a project with the National Children's Advocacy Center and the local Our Kids Center looking at how paraprofessional support of non-offending caregivers might aid the healthy prognoses in children with alleged sexual abuse.