Anthony M. Graziano is Professor Emeritus, Psychology, at the State
University of New York, Buffalo. He was Co-Director of the Research Center for
Children and Youth and served as the Director of the Clinical Area. Graziano
received the B.A. degree from Columbia College in 1954 and the Ph.D. degree in
1961 from Purdue University. Following a clinical internship he completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in child-clinical psychology at the Devereux Foundation
in Pennsylvania. From 1961 to 1968 he developed and operated one of the first
behavioral treatment programs in the country for children with autism. In that
program he was, arguably, the first to employ relaxation and systematic
desensitization techniques to help teach self-control skills to children with
autism. He also served briefly as the Acting Director of the Kennedy
Center for children with developmental disabilities. Dr. Graziano has been at
the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo since 1969. His research and
writing has focused primarily on children, youth, and families, and has
included: child psychopathology; developmental disabilities; children’s fears
and phobias; behavior modification; parent training; community psychology; child
abuse and neglect; and family therapy. His most recent research was on the use
of corporal punishment in child rearing, and he has been a long-time opponent of
corporal punishment. He is editor, co-author, or author of eleven books,
including four on the treatment of childhood disorders and one on developmental
disabilities. Dr. Graziano has been a member of the Board of Directors of the
Eastern Psychological Association, People, Inc., a Western New York agency
serving persons with developmental disabilities, and the editorial board of the
journal, Behavior Modification.
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