Research
Social Skills Training Group Program - Our Team
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Marjorie Solomon, Ph.D.Program Director & Teen Group Dr. Solomon is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is on the faculty of the MIND Institute and of the postdoctoral Autism Research Training Program. Her principal research program investigates the development of cognitive control, and other forms of higher cognition in high functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders, and the relationship between cognitive control and behavioral symptoms including restricted and repetitive behaviors and formal thought disorder. Dr. Solomon has been directing the Social Skills Program since 2002. |
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Susan Bacalman, L.C.S.W.Parent Group |
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Brooke Davidson, BAProgram Coordiantor, Teen Group & Sibling Group Brooke Davidson is a behavioral therapist and a junior specialist at the MIND Institute. In the past, she has worked both 1:1 and in group settings with children with autism as well as other developmental delays, providing ABA and parent and teacher training. She has provided behavior support for families and teachers in the home and school settings. Currently she is working in Dr. Solomon’s lab in the social skills program. |
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Erika Frieze, Psy.D.School Aged Group Dr. Frieze is a staff psychologist at the MIND Institute. She has extensive experience in diagnostic testing and therapy for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental issues such as pervasive developmental disorder, autism, learning disorders, and attention deficits. Previous to her time at the MIND Institute Dr. Frieze has worked in private mental health clinics, schools, regional centers, in home, and in university settings treating infants, children, and adolescents. She is also a lead clinician on the MIND Institute’s Social Skills Program. |
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Beth L. Goodlin-Jones, Ph.D.Program Support Dr. Goodlin-Jones, a clinical developmental psychologist, is an active member of the MIND Institute’s clinical research teams. These research teams see a wide range of children with at-risk development and neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and fragile X syndrome. Her focus of research involves sleep patterns in typically developing children and children with autism, developmental delay, and fragile X syndrome. Dr. Goodlin-Jones works closely with several colleagues at the MIND Institute on the early indicators of autism and parent-child interaction patterns in families with fragile X syndrome and autism. She is also a lead clinician on the Social Skills Program.Dr. Goodlin-Jones, a clinical developmental psychologist, is an active member of the MIND Institute’s clinical research teams. These research teams see a wide range of children with at-risk development and neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and fragile X syndrome. Her focus of research involves sleep patterns in typically developing children and children with autism, developmental delay, and fragile X syndrome. Dr. Goodlin-Jones works closely with several colleagues at the MIND Institute on the early indicators of autism and parent-child interaction patterns in families with fragile X syndrome and autism. She is also a lead clinician on the Social Skills Program. |
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Joan Gunther, Psy.D.School Aged & Elementary Aged Groups Joan Gunther, PsyD. is a licensed clinical psychologist. She has worked with children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families for 19 years. Prior to her position at the MIND Institute, Joan was employed by the Cupertino and Sunnyvale Union School Districts to consult with teaching staff and the families of children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Joan also worked at River Oak Center for Children with children, adolescents, adults, and families coping with numerous behavioral, emotional, and living problems. |
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Elise Hanzel, Ph.D.School Aged Group |
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Erin Roseborough, CCLSProgram Support & Sibling Group Erin Roseborough is our Certified Child Life Specialist and Volunteer Coordinator. She attended California State University, Sacramento and received her degree in Child Development. Erin completed her Child Life Internship with UC Davis Children's Hospital. She began her career at Methodist Hospital, later working at Shriners Children’s Hospital. She joined the staff of the MIND Institute as its first child life specialist in the fall of 2003. In 2004 Erin joined the Social Skills team in coordinating day-to-day program processes and developed the Sibling Group Program. Erin strives to reduce the negative impact of stressful or traumatic life events and situations that affect the development, health and well-being of infants, children, youth and families. |
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Andrea Schneider, Ph.D.Parent Group Andrea Schneider, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral research scholar at the MIND Institute. She has studied the connection between psychophysiology and behavior, neurophysiological bases of ADHD and dyslexia as well as interventions research. Currently, her main research interest is the association between genetic and brain abnormalities underlying the neuropsychopathology, behavioral, and psychiatric symptoms in carriers with the fragile X mutation. She is also an affiliate of the ARTP (Autism Research and Treatment) program at the MIND Institute, a member of the FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Society), and the Center for Cognitive Studies, University Potsdam, Germany. She is an active leader of the Social Skills Program since 2008. |
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Mary Beth Steinfeld, Ph.D.Parent Group Mary Beth J. Steinfeld's interests include infant mental health, disorders of language, communication and social development, including autism spectrum disorders and high-risk infant development. She is a member of the California Department of Developmental Services California Early Intervention Technical Assistance Network Committee on Infant Mental Health Provider Standards and a medical consultant to the Newborn Hearing Screening and High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Programs administered by the California Department of Health Children's Medical Services. |
