Ron Prinz
Carolina Distinguished Professor and
Director, Parenting & Family Research Center
Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
Personal Information
Work address: Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina 29208-0182
Licensure: South Carolina, Clinical Psychologist
Board Certification (ABBP): Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2003 to present)
Education
Bachelor of Arts degree.
Doctorate of Philosophy
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California Major: Psychology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California Major: Psychology
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York Major: Clinical Psychology
Pre-doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology,
Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center, Melville NY
Major Research Interests
Prevention Science and Child Clinical Psychology: child and family; prevention and intervention; empirically based approaches to assessment and intervention
Specific topics: prevention of child maltreatment, conduct disorder, delinquency, early substance use, and school failure; early family and school-based interventions, population-based parenting intervention; substance abuse treatment with parents in the child welfare system
Honors
New Investigator Award, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, 1982-85.
Outstanding Contributor to Psychology in 1985, S. C. Psychological Association
Fellow, American Psychological Association, 1987-present
Carolina Distinguished Professorship, 1987-present
Editor (with Tom Ollendick), Advances in Clinical Child Psychology , 1991-1998
Appointment to NIMH Grant Review Panel (Violence & Traumatic Stress), 1995-1999
Founding Editor (with Tom Ollendick), Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Russell Foundation Research Award, University of South Carolina, 2000
Multicultural Award, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, 2003
, 1998-present
Honorary Professor, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, 2009-2012, reappointed 2012-2014
Breakthrough Leadership in Research Award, University of South Carolina, 2013

Employment and Administrative Positions
1977-1982
1982-1987
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, USC, Columbia SC
Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Psychology, USC, Columbia, SC
1987-present Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC
2003-present Director, USC Research Consortium on Children and Families
2006 Acting Director, USC Clinical-Community Doctoral Training Program
2008-present Co-Director, USC Behavioral-Biomedical Interface Program
2009-present Director, USC Parenting & Family Research Center
Editorial and Grant Reviewing
Founding Editor (with Thomas Ollendick), Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review , 1998-present
Editorial board: Prevention Science (1998 - present)
Journal of Family Psychology (2011 – present)
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (1986-present)
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (1994-present)
Behavioral Assessment (1987-1992)
Child Psychiatry and Human Development (2001-present)
Reviewer: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
Cognitive Research and Therapy
Child Maltreatment
American Psychologist
Child Development
Cognitive Therapy & Research
Behavior Therapy
Developmental Psychology
Applied & Preventive Psychology
Journal of Family Psychology
Grant Reviewer: NICHD Special Review (1992)
National Institute of Justice reviewer (1995- )
NIMH grant panel "Violence and Traumatic Stress Review Group” (1995-99)
NIDA reviewer (1998)
NIMH Special Emphasis Panel (1999)
National Evaluation of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, U.S. Dept. of
Justice, U.S. Dept of Education, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (1999)
CDC Special Emphasis Panel (1999)
National Institutes of Health, SNEM-1 Review Panel (2000-2004)
National Institutes of Health, CIHB Review Panel (2008)
NIGMS T32 Review Panel and Site Visit Team (2013)
Center for Scientific Review, Ad Hoc Reviewer (ongoing)
STTR/SBIR Review Panel, Ad Hoc Reviewer (2014)
Organizational Membership
American Psychological Association (Fellow)
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (Board of Directors, 1995-98)
Society for Prevention Research
Society for Research in Child Development