Experts in the Field of Childhood Trauma

Bio

David DiLillo received a Ph.D in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University in 1997. His primary research interests are in the area of family violence, including child maltreatment and marital and couple violence. He has particular interest in long-term functioning of adult survivors of childhood trauma and understanding revictimization that occurs during childhood or adolescence and again in adulthood. Recent projects in his research group have focused on marital adjustment of childhood maltreatment survivors, psychosocial mediators of revictimization, emotional influences on intimate partner violence perpetration and development of a web-based measure of child maltreatment. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National institute of Child Health and Human Development.