Author Credentials:

• More than 35 years of professional experience;
• MA in Early Childhood/ Developmental Psychology, Antioch University, 1979;
• Team Nurse, Washington D.C. Children's Hospital Inpatient Psychiatry program, 1981-87, working with children identified as having been sexually abused;
  
• Virginia nursing positions in adolescent psychiatry, children's rehabilitation and community mental health;
• Awarded Clinical Nurse Specialist advanced practice license in 1990;
• Private psychotherapy practice since 1990;
• Presenter at numerous conferences and trainings, keynote speaker at 2002 conference of Virginians Aligned Against Sexual Assault;
• Recognized regional child advocate.

Brief Bio: Joyce Allan is a clinical psychiatric nurse/therapist and child advocate, and has over 35 years experience working with both adult and child sexual abuse survivors. She is a past Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Institute on Violence, Culture, and Survival. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Extended Bio:

• The author has over 35 years professional experience as a Registered Nurse, beginning in 1965 with eight years as a pediatric nurse at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C.
• She also has worked as a family daycare provider and as Educational Coordinator of a large urban daycare center. She obtained her Master's degree in Early Childhood/Developmental Psychology from Antioch University in 1979.
  
• Ms. Allan served on the D.C. Mayor's Task Force for Infant Daycare in 1980-81.
• Moving to central Virginia in 1987, she served on both the Charlottesville-Albemarle Task Forces on Child Sexual Victimization and on Children and Youth, and the regional Sexual Assault Resource Agency's Board of Directors.
  
• In addition to her private psychotherapy practice, she has specialized in leading workshops and training sessions on child sexual abuse, family violence, anger management, child discipline, and developmentally appropriate parenting.
  
• During 1998 and 1999, Joyce Allan became an endowed Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Institute on Violence, Culture, and Survival and continued her seven-year study into the causes of community and family silence-keeping and the ways it allows child sexual abuse to spread.
  

Married and the mother of four adult children, Ms. Allan makes her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville Virginia.

Contact Information tel:434-823-5675; fax: 434-8237665; email: speak@cville.net