Speaker Bio – May 14 meeting of the Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults

BARRY S. ANTON, Ph.D. joined the faculty at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington in 1973. Dr. Anton is specialty certified in child and adolescent clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He consults to the neurodevelopmental clinic at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. In 1986, he founded, along with psychiatrist Dale Howard, Rainier Behavioral Health, a multidisciplinary mental health clinic that employs 15 psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers in an interdisciplinary, integrated mental health delivery model. In 2005, he was named Distinguished Professor at the university. Dr. Anton became active in the Washington State Psychological Association in 1988 and was elected Treasurer in 1990. He served as chair of the government and legal affairs committee and in 1996 received a John Lantz Senior Fellowship for advanced study from his university. He spent the following year as a lobbyist for mental health reform in the Washington State Legislature. Dr. Anton was elected to the APA Board of Professional Affairs in 2000, the APA Board of Directors in 2003 and currently serves on the Board of Educational Affairs. He has been the chair, or co-chair of seven APA task forces, including the TF on Psychology’s Agenda for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. He is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles and publications and is awaiting the publication his book, Clinical Psychology: Research and Practice with co-author Janet Matthews from Oxford University Press. He received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Vermont in 1969 and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in perceptual development from Colorado State University in 1972 and 1973.