David McIntosh joined the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and Statistics this fall as an associate professor, specializing in the Program in School Psychology.

This will be McIntosh’s eighth year in education. He taught most recently at the University of Missouri-Columbia, from 1994-1997, where he received an award for “Excel-lence in the Scholarship of Teaching.” He earned his Ph.D. in 1990 from Ball State University.

McIntosh has developed an intervention strategy for school psychologists called Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy, and is currently continuing his research on decreasing disruptive behaviors of school children. He brings with him to the University a grant to conduct this research from the Society for the Study of School Psychology.

In order to pursue his research most effectively, McIntosh said he will be “linking up” with the City of Albany’s public school system. “My future research will explore more interventions,” he stated, “My main emphasis is on parent-child interaction.”

A licensed psychologist in New York State, McIntosh said one of the main things that drew him to Albany was “the quality of the program, especially the graduate program, which is APA accredited. It was an opportunity to come to a good program with good students.” McIntosh also said he has been impressed by his previous professional contacts with Albany faculty.

Bonnie Nastasi, director of the Programs in School Psychology, said that McIntosh’s “active research program is important in terms of his own productivity and in the supervision of dissertations.” She added, “We see him as a key person in helping to build a better program in all areas: teaching, research, and administration.”

McIntosh is widely published in the areas of behavioral disorders and learning disabilities. His teaching emphasis has been on the personality and social assessment of children and adolescents; on intellectual evaluation; and on supervision.

John LeMay