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David L. Rabiner

Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Director for Program Evaluation Services, Center for Child and Family Policy

David Rabiner currently serves as the director of Program Evaluation Services at the Center for Child and Family Policy, the faculty advisor for the School Research Partnership Office, and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Rabiner's work focuses on ADHD and interventions to improve academic performance in children with attention difficulties. He has recently completed a study of two different computerized interventions for elementary school students with attention difficulties and a study of the misuse and abuse of ADHD medications among college students. He also has longstanding interests in improving the quality of care received by children with ADHD and in the relationship between children's social experience and their social cognitive functioning. Current projects include a longitudinal study of children with ADHD and a newly launched study to provide classroom behavior management training to elementary school teachers in two rural counties. These projects are funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Education.

Rabiner has created a Web site where he makes available a number of ADHD/ADD resources. Everyone is welcome to visit the site and to sign up for "Attention Research Update," a monthly e-newsletter in which Rabiner reviews new studies on ADHD/ADD that are published in leading medical and psychology journals. The Web site: www.helpforadd.com.

Education:

• PhD Duke University - 1987
• A.B., Magna cum Laude Brown University, Providence, RI - 1980

Teaching Spring 2010:

• PSY 100RE.001, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Synopsis
  Soc/Psych 130, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
• PSY 100RE.01D, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Synopsis
  Bivins 109, W 11:55 AM-12:45 PM
• PSY 100RE.02D, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Synopsis
  West Duke 08A, W 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
• PSY 100RE.03D, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Synopsis
  Bivins 109, Th 11:55 AM-12:45 PM
• PSY 100RE.04D, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Synopsis
  Bivins 109, Th 04:40 PM-05:30 PM
• PSY 100RE.05D, ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Synopsis
  Carr 136, Th 06:15 PM-07:05 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Rabiner, D.L., Murray, D.W., Skinner, A.T., & Malone, P.S. (2009). A randomized trial of two promising computer-based interventions for students with attention difficulties. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. (DOI 10.1007/s10802-009-9353-x).  [abs]


2. Rabiner, D.L., Murray, D.W., Schmid, L., & Malone, P. (2004). An exploration of the relationship between ethnicity, attention problems, and academic achievement. School Psychology Review, 33, 498-509.


3. Dodge, K.A., & Rabiner, D.L. (2004). Returning to Roots: On Social Information Processing and Moral Development. Child Development, 75, 1003-1008.


4. Lansford, J.E., & Rabiner, D.L. (2004). The High School Academy: Evaluation of a program to promote a successful transition to high school. Journal of At-Risk Issues, 10, 23-29.


5. Rabiner, D.L., Malone, P.S., & CPPRG (2004). The impact of tutoring on early reading achievement for children with and without attention problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 32, 273-284.

1. "Evaluating and managing ADHD in a primary care setting", Invited presentation to the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, Asheville, NC, 1997

1. presented findings from Project CLASS on the instability of elevated teacher ratings of inattentive symptoms and the implications of this instability for the assessment of ADHD, annual meeting of the Institute for Education Services., June, 2009
2. presented intervention trial results, biannual International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopatholgy in Seattle., June, 2009

1. Advances in Youth violence prevention: The CDC Multisite Collaboration, Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2 November 2005
2. The impact of toxic school environments on children's social development, Presented at biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, 28 August 2005

Curriculum Vitae