Child Development

Douglas Davies, MSW, PhD, until his death in 2015, was Lecturer at the School of Social Work, University of Michigan. An infant mental health specialist, he published numerous clinical articles on intervention with toddlers and parents, traumatized children, and child cancer survivors. Dr. Davies’s most recent practice was devoted to reflective supervision of mental health clinicians and child care consultants, consultation to agencies, and training of clinicians on topics in child development and child therapy. He was inducted into the National Academies of Practice as a distinguished social work practitioner, and received the Selma Fraiberg Award from the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.

Michael F. Troy, PhD, LP, is a clinical psychologist at Children’s Minnesota, where he is Medical Director of Behavioral Health Services and Associate Medical Director of Children’s Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Troy's clinical and academic interests include diagnostic classification issues in developmental psychopathology, models of therapeutic assessment, psychological assessment of adolescents at risk for major psychopathology, and teaching child clinical psychology as part of hospital and community medical education programs.