Preventing Partner Violence: Research and Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies

Daniel J. Whitaker, PhD, received his doctorate in psychology from the University of Georgia in 1996. He worked as a scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1997 to 2007. In June 2002, he became a team leader in the CDC's Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch, where he led a team of researchers who conducted prevention research in the areas on child maltreatment and intimate partner violence. He became the director of the National SafeCare Training and Research Center in January 2008 and a professor of public health at Georgia State University in August 2008.
 
Dr. Whitaker has published more than 50 articles and book chapters, including articles in the American Journal of Public Health, Child Maltreatment, and Aggression and Violent Behavior. He has served as the CDC advisor to the American Medical Association's National Advisory Committee on Violence and Abuse and on the advisory boards for Healthy Families Georgia and the National Family Preservation Network.
 
John R. Lutzker, PhD, is the director of the Center for Healthy Development in the College of Health and Human Science and a visiting professor of public health in the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University. Previously, he was executive director of the Marcus Institute, and before that he was appointed as distinguished consultant and chief for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
 
He has published over 125 professional articles and chapters and has presented over 350 professional papers. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Divisions 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology), 25 (Behavior Analysis), 33 (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities), Division 37® (Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice), and 53 (Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology) and a clinical fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society.
 
Dr. Lutzker is currently associate editor of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, and he is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Child Health and Human Development, the Journal of Family Violence, Child & Family Behavior Therapy, and Behavioral Interventions.
 
He is the author of five other books, including Reducing Child Maltreatment: A Guidebook for Parent Services (2002, with Kathryn M. Bigelow), and editor of the Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment (1998) and Preventing Violence: Research and Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies (2006, APA).
 
He is a recent recipient of the James M. Gaudin Outstanding Research Award from the Georgia Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Kansas.