David A. Wolfe, PhD
David A. Wolfe, PhDDavid A. Wolfe, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Toronto and director of Children's Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He recently received the Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science from the Canadian Psychological Association. Dr. Wolfe earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1973 and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from University of South Florida, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He has written numerous articles on dating violence, maltreatment and trauma in adolescents and children. He has received funding from numerous foundations to study violence and from National Institutes of Health to study violence prevention in adolescent dating relationships. His recent books include Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe (with P. Jaffe & C. Crooks; Yale University Press, 2006); Child Abuse: Implications for Child Development and Psychopathology, 2nd Edition (Sage, 1999); and Abnormal Child Psychology, 3rd edition (with E. Mash; Wadsworth, 2005).