About UsDawn Blacker, Ph.D.
Title
Supervising Psychologist II
Associate Director of MH Services
Co-Training Director
Voluntary Faculty
Specialty
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Center/Program Affiliation
CAARE Diagnostic and Treatment Center
Address
CAARE Diagnostic and Treatment Center
3671 Business Drive
Sacramento, CA 95820
Alternate Address
Glassrock Building
2521 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone
916-734-6615
Education
Alliant University-CSPP
Alameda, California
Ph.D. 1998
UC Davis
Davis, California
B.A. 1992
Internships
UC Davis Children's Hospital
Sacramento, CA
1998, Pediatrics
Residency
UC Davis Children's Hospital
Sacramento, CA
1999, Pediatrics
Alta California Regional Center
Sacramento, CA
1999
Select Recent Publications
Kalich, L., Carmichael, B.D., Masson, T., Blacker, D., Urquiza, A. Evaluating the Evaluator: Guidelines for Legal Professionals in Assessing the Competency of Evaluations in Termination of Parental Right Cases. (2009). Journal of Psychiatry and Law.
Urquiza, A.J., Zebell, N., Blacker, D. (2009). Innovation and Integration: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy as Play Therapy. In Athena Drewes (Ed.), Cognitive-behavioral therapy approaches to play therapy. Wiley Sons: New York.
Urquiza, A.J. Blacker, D.M. Clinical Assessment of Maltreated Children. In Handbook for the Treatment of Abused and Neglected Children, P. Forrest Talley, Ed., Allyn and Bacon. (2005).
Dombrowski, S.C., Timmer, S.G., Blacker, D.M., Urquiza, A.J. (2005). A Positive Behavioral Intervention for Toddlers: Parent-Child Attunement Therapy. Child Abuse Review, Vol. 14: 132-151.
Sedlar, G. Blacker, D. (2002). Pre-doctoral Internship Training in Child Maltreatment and Family Violence: One Training Model. APPIC Newsletter, March, 15 36.
Waller, N.G., Bouchard, T.J., Lykken, D.T., Tellegen, A., Blacker. D.(1992). Creativity, heritability, familiarity: Which word does not belong? Psychological Inquiry, 4, 235-237.
